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The best school of life. Hitchhiking permits, in effect, 2 individuals who know absolutely nothing about each other at the start, to get to know each other rather well in the space of a few minutes, hours, or sometimes even days. To my taste, travels are only interesting if they are punctuated with meetings with the local population. Hitchhiking allows these encounters to happen. I have often considered that each one of the some 1,300 drivers who picked me up during my 5 years of hitchhiking around the world (plus the more than 100 who picked me up during my previous tour of Europe ) had something to teach me. By hitchhiking, I was able to compare my point of view with that of people with very different pasts from mine. Further, I was able to learn many things about the countries I crossed and see them through the eyes of the locals.

But beyond hitchhiking and after 5 years of touring the world, the 2 words that I most want to say today are : NEVER AGAIN
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