I’m just so excited to tell this story so I don’t know where
to begin.
Anyway, Owen and I went to Utrecht, which is southeast of
Amsterdam and takes about 35 minutes driving (23 miles). Few days before today,
one Calvin student was visiting his friend in our group, and he was hitchhiking
all around Europe. That inspired for Owen and me to hitchhike to Utrecht. We
looked up the direction to Utrecht and put our thumbs up and smiled at the
people in the car. Some people just waved and smile. About 20 minutes after we
started, one lady stopped but she wasn’t going to Utrecht, and told us that
this was not a good spot to go there so we moved closer to the high way. After
moving three times, we ended up by the entrance to the express way to Utrecht,
which was good.
Finally, one taxi stopped and asked us where we want to go,
but we thought that we had to pay so we just said free? And he said yes! We
hopped in and he told us that he was going toward southeast, not Utrecht but he
would drop us up in the direction to Utrecht. So we were out on the nowhere.
Just field and cars all around. Again, we stood on the roundabout to hitchhike.
Fortunately, another taxi driver picked us up and said his was on his break and
he would love to take us to downtown, Utrecht. That was so nice of him. He
traveled a lot around the world and he could speak four different languages. We
talked about places we’ve traveled and such. From Uilenstede to Utrecht, it
took us about two hours.
This was something that I always wanted to do, but I didn’t
know how to do about it. I think that the first time is the hardest like
everybody says. Now I can go further just hitchhiking. This was a totally new
experience that I had to be out of my comfort zone, which gave me a full of adrenaline
until now. This feeling is difficult to share if you haven’t done it. It’s a
bit a risk, but it was great. Now, I have to wait for what my mom is going to
say.Picture - Museum Speelklok, Utrecht
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