The year is almost over and I probably won’t be going on the road again this month. Last night I added up the distances hitchhiked this year and they totaled to 19,530 kilometers. This is nearly 1000 more kilometers traveled compared to my previous record of 18,537 kilometers hitchhiked in 2005!
One of my goals for 2010 is to surpass the 20,000 kilometer mark.
I don’t travel by hitchhiking merely for the sake of traveling. Every time I go out it’s for some purpose, and often to visit friends and contacts to cure their Microsoft Windows ills. Thanks to the inherent security holes in Windows that lets in viruses, malware, and trojans, I’ll never lack for a way to support myself. 🙂 Of course, poor practices of the end user have a big part of the blame too. That’s a big reason why I favor Linux. It’s practically idiot proof. The user cannot hurt the system, even maliciously, without root access, and no user of my Linux machine will ever have root access, only me, the administrator.
Related posts:
Hitchhiking during Golden Week, 2009
The Hitchhiker's Woe: leaving Valuables in the Vehicle
Adventure from Hamamatsu to Otsu City
James Japan on another Journey
Hitchhiking on a rainy day to Saitama
Race against the clock to Hirosaki city
First hitchhike adventure 2011
Rainy Autumn day trip to Aomori City and Back
Adventure hitch-hiking to Saitama
Thank you Dai for your encouragement. It was certainly an honor for me to meet the first person to hitchhike from Japan to Germany! And that was way before I started hitchhiking in Japan!
Wow, this graph is really amazing. Yes, hitchhiking is not only the best way to travel but also one of the best ways to bridge between people, communities and countries, I believe. You deserve a nobel peace prize.
I thought I may be one of those that is entitled to be in Japan’s hitchhiking hall of fame as the one who made 1st hitchhiking through Eurasian continent in 1963~64. But in comparison to what you are doing, I am nothing. So I shall keep my eyes on you and we will see what we can together achieve to help all of us make this world a better place to live. I really enjoyed our conversation on Jan.16th when you blessed my car by accepting my offer for a ride in Niigata.