#13: Hitchhike
This is hopefully going to be one of the least exciting entries of the list. So I'll try to keep it short.
I put down hitchhiking with no idea of how it might come about. The whole hitchhiking thing seems a bit pointless when you're travelling around in a van, but its something I'd never done before so it got a guernsey.
Only a week or so into the trip I found myself in Cape Le Grand National Park in Esperance heading out on a 15km hike. Plan was to get to the last beach on the hike and get a lift home from one of the families who would be picnicing there.
Hike went well. Awesome countryside, big hills, massive bays, steep hills, tough going. Everything you'd want from a 15km hike. And I managed to find this beach (probably the best among a bunch of other amazing beaches)
So after about five and a half hours I reached the end. I was stuffed, but pretty happy. Except unlike the day before there was absolutely noone around. So I waited half an hour. No deal. Walked back to the start of above beach, hoping for a lift with one of the families there. Same story. Another long walk back along the above the beach (its a big beach) to the campsite. Where noone was leaving.
So I took off down the main road for anoter 20min or so before I hitched a ride with the first guy going past. Was a miner from Kal. Good egg.
So overall I ended up walking 21km through some pretty tough country, and was absolutely rooted. And while I now appreciate the art of the hitchhker, I don't see why they don't just get themselves a van.
i'm living vicariously through you, child! make me proud on your travels. i want to add to the list. get on tv. preferably morning tv. preferably telling a joke. preferably winning a tivo...
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