Wednesday morning I said goodbye to Yazmeen in Zurich and headed south. Surprisingly my Let's Go guidebook even told me a good spot to start hitching from, even though they notoriously always follow it up with "Let's Go does not recommend hitch hiking as a means of travel" - yet the sometimes tell me exactly where to go. Does anyone know of a comprehensive resource, be it online or in print, that gives good hitching suggestions for popular cities and desitinations?
So anyway, it took me about an hour to realize I wasn't in the best of spots afterall. I don't mind waiting so much now because a) i had loads of time until I was meeting up with my next host, and b) i have about six weeks of commercial-free Howard Stern shows I downloaded to my iPod. Waiting is no problem anymore. But after I moved down the road a bit and around a corner I noticed a huge increase of southbound traffic heading in the direction of Geneva. Once I moved down there I had a ride fairly quickly.
Instead of taking me all the way to the Geneva area my ride was only going to Bern - the capital of Switzerland and around half way to my destination. Right as he was about to drop me off the sky erupted in a huge fit of rain. "To the trainstation, please."
41 CHF later (about $32 - did I mention Switzerland is expensive?) I was on the train to Nyon - about 15 miles north of Geneva. After two hours of walking the rainy streets of the small city I met up with Karim, my host and guide to the Blue House.
What goes on at the Blue House? You'll just have to wait until next time to find out. :)
Posted October 8, 2004 04:00 AM @ (GMT - 6)
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