Its 6th of February and its friday and i am in Hamilton and i need to move Napier, i booked my ticket for intercity bus at 2:45 PM that really arrived me at 7:34 PM in the city of Napier. But my host told me to hitchike as jus like a touristic route and will get lot of people to give me lift . I was not really very confident because i have never done hitchhiking in life so i said ok and lets me just try this out. It dropped me at 10:15PM just at city where most of people would be going out on the boat.
Within 3-5 minute i got my first car who gave me lift. Inside i found person who could i relate fantastically well and from city as a stock broker David. He said he is not going to Napier but on the way can drop me. He need to go to Rotwa and take left from highway, i said okay "Drop me". And we had a fantastic conversation about capital market, what funds he is marketing and how the new Zealand economy is doing. And its like very very interesting conversation. He dropped me and again in 2 minutes time.
I got another guy who gave me ride, he is young chap working in New Zealand navy and going to attend a wedding. He said he can drop me 40 minutes from where i was standing. I said "ok drop me". He dropped me at the petrol station.
And again in two three minutes i get another rider, they are a couple working as a school teacher in School. We had fantastic life conversation because they dropped me to a very very popular place called Taupo on way which is 2/3rd distance between Hamilton to Napier. Very interesting thing i got to know is the national requirement for student to teacher ratio in schools is 1 teacher for every 28 students. So if there is a school in the countryside that has maybe say 60 students then they would have just two teachers. This is the way education system works, very very good quality. So this couple drop me at Taupo which 140 km away from Napier. And it was about to rain and trying my luck for hitchhiking.
And i saw a lady asking me to come in her car and i got a ride up to Napier to the home where i had to go. This lady was a fantastic person, shad lived in 7-9 countries 2-3 years each. Spend about 30 years living in various countries for long long duration. Extreme traveler in her life 100+ countries. Fantastic talking to her on way from anything and any subject. Like human behaviour.
For 4.5 hour of travelling 160 km, i took four rides during hitchhiking from Hamilton to Napier. It was just really fantastic and amazing as good as having my own car. What got me required is engaging them in any conversation on flags, economy, travel etc etc. getting general kind of knowledge and be smart enough to engage the lift provider into some common topic where they would really loved to give you lift, enjoy the conversation time together. I found this hitchhiking experience interestingly interesting and it lift my confidence multi fold to try this in almost all countries wherever it is possible. All and all it was a fantastic experience for me and now i am in city of Napier.
Within 3-5 minute i got my first car who gave me lift. Inside i found person who could i relate fantastically well and from city as a stock broker David. He said he is not going to Napier but on the way can drop me. He need to go to Rotwa and take left from highway, i said okay "Drop me". And we had a fantastic conversation about capital market, what funds he is marketing and how the new Zealand economy is doing. And its like very very interesting conversation. He dropped me and again in 2 minutes time.
I got another guy who gave me ride, he is young chap working in New Zealand navy and going to attend a wedding. He said he can drop me 40 minutes from where i was standing. I said "ok drop me". He dropped me at the petrol station.
And again in two three minutes i get another rider, they are a couple working as a school teacher in School. We had fantastic life conversation because they dropped me to a very very popular place called Taupo on way which is 2/3rd distance between Hamilton to Napier. Very interesting thing i got to know is the national requirement for student to teacher ratio in schools is 1 teacher for every 28 students. So if there is a school in the countryside that has maybe say 60 students then they would have just two teachers. This is the way education system works, very very good quality. So this couple drop me at Taupo which 140 km away from Napier. And it was about to rain and trying my luck for hitchhiking.
And i saw a lady asking me to come in her car and i got a ride up to Napier to the home where i had to go. This lady was a fantastic person, shad lived in 7-9 countries 2-3 years each. Spend about 30 years living in various countries for long long duration. Extreme traveler in her life 100+ countries. Fantastic talking to her on way from anything and any subject. Like human behaviour.
For 4.5 hour of travelling 160 km, i took four rides during hitchhiking from Hamilton to Napier. It was just really fantastic and amazing as good as having my own car. What got me required is engaging them in any conversation on flags, economy, travel etc etc. getting general kind of knowledge and be smart enough to engage the lift provider into some common topic where they would really loved to give you lift, enjoy the conversation time together. I found this hitchhiking experience interestingly interesting and it lift my confidence multi fold to try this in almost all countries wherever it is possible. All and all it was a fantastic experience for me and now i am in city of Napier.
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