Tips for hitchhikers

Summer will certainly need to travel. And if you do not have so much money, but a lot of thirst for adventure, then hitchhiking - this is what you need. However, you must know a few rules to help you on the road. We talk about them, but in the end tell you about a very interesting contest "Hitchhiker's Guide to Havana».

1. Purity is the first!

You must be washed, shaved and cleanly dressed. No traces of blood (this is not a joke, on the road happens to all) and sweat. Lack of beard allows the driver a better view of your face. It seems that drivers take great pleasure to plant in the human machine, similar to the student, heading to the place of study than human, like the singer of the group ZZ Top.

2. Remove sunglasses!

Cheap or they are very expensive - it does not matter, anyway you need to remove them. The driver should see your eyes.

3. Maintain good relations

This advice is not for long-distance travel, and in case if you need to get somewhere in the city. Maintaining good relations with its neighbors, you can sometimes ask them to throw the you to your destination.

4. One traveler - one bag!

Maximum ease your luggage. Ideally, this should be one not too big backpack with the bare essentials. Of course, you can drag with all that "may be useful", but it is better if you can put the luggage to his knees in the car, and you do not have to strain your driver, so he opened the trunk or back seat cleansed from their of things.

5. It does not interfere with the creative approach

Which only tricks are not people to be hoisted. Demonstration of female legs - this is from the category of banal (and with it you have to be careful). Some chase the machine or perform some stunts. You know how you can stand out - use it.

6. Choose the right place

If you need to start your journey from the big city, then please proceed by public transport or walk on foot to the countryside (20-30 kilometers from the city). There you have to catch the car, which should be over a long distance. Moreover foolish to assume that the driver will stop and you seat next to the hustle and bustle of city traffic.

Learn the laws of hitchhiking in the city where you are. For example, highway hitchhiking in New Zealand - is illegal.

7. Make a sign with the name of the destination

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Here one can not say it will help you or not. On the one hand there is a chance to catch the car, which goes directly to the destination, and on the other hand, will not stop those who are not so far away travels.

If you are traveling to a foreign language and the country does not know the language, on the plate can be in the local language (dictionary to help you) write: "I can talk to (specify language)." Perhaps the driver wants to have a companion who can keep the conversation going, but not limited to greetings and farewells.

8. Select the correct time of day

At peak times (in the morning from 7 to 9 in the evening from 4 to 6) you will remain standing on the track, despite the fact that you pass by dozens of cars. The driver, who would gladly have tossed you in the afternoon, did not want to do this morning, when he carries his child to school. Office workers in the evening only think about how to quickly get home, they also do not need companions.

9. Frequent travelers helps pathetic

The traveler may be lucky if he is pathetic: rain, empty country road and it is such miserable and lonely in this unfair world, stands in a tee shirt and shorts at the time, when in the street nearly 0º. This is also a traveler will feed along the road.

10. You are not exclusive

I never have to think that you have a particular exclusive right to travel. Of course very unpleasant and tiring to stand in the rain or in the heat, watching over you pass the car behind the car. I start thinking, "Well, why is this machine did not take me? After all, it was quite empty... ", the person loses hope, no longer smiling drivers and only lazily lifts finger upwards, and then only to every fifth car. Remember that you have the honor to strangers, lifting you into his car, and tell strict "no" gloomy thoughts.

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And now the promised story about the competition. enthusiasts from Havana Club Russia We decided to show and prove to everyone that you can get hitchhike anywhere, even to Havana - the birthplace of the legendary rum Havana Club and the island where everything is possible. Of the huge number of people willing to participate in the project were selected, six brave souls who went from Moscow to Havana. The whole trip they take pictures and videos, as well as written reports. Periodically, they have the opportunity to earn a little money, doing the job of the original organizers. See videos, photos and reports of travelers, as well as learn a lot about the hitchhiker from the horse's mouth, it can be in an official group Havana Club Russia.

Maybe the guys experience inspire you to travel. After all the summer is yet to come!

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