Europe No Euros

20 of August- The first long distance Hitchhike

   I woke up early and started packing my stuff.My missin today is to get rides from faro to Vila Nova do Ceira,next to Coimbra so I could camp with my friends in the wild.The fair haired girls were still asleep from the crazy night they had, so I didnt't said goodbye to them.I prepared 2 ham sandwiches and packed them too.I don't leave much outsithe of the backpack so i don't take too much time and effort to put tings back in.I said goodbye to Alex and pedro said he would take me to Olhao where the National road to Lisbon is.We went to is van where the printer  he had to deliver was.I packed the backpack between the printer and the backdoor of the van, so if pedro would brake hard the printer wouldn't suffer damage.In the midle of the way to Olhao, with a fucking coincidence, we see Alex in his van job !When we got to Olhao, pedro left me in the national road, were nothing was exept lots of trucks and cars passing bye.I said goodbye and he left.I put my mp3on, wrote a huge sign saying LISBOA COIMBRA and started hitchhiking.

   After 1 hour I was picked up by a nice truck driver of a white truck.It was the first time i got picked up by a trucker.He was nice.He talked about the war he was in bosnia, his job, some adventures and missadventures he had with hitchhikers.I drawed him his face and apreciated it.In the gastation, he bought me a chamurça which I apreciated too.at the midle of the way he said he got a call from his boss sayng that he wasnt going to Lisbon but Montijo, a city just in the south coast of Lisbon.I said it was ok.He droped me there and after 30 seconds I got a ride from 2 german guys on holidays here.they passed the bridge and They droped me in the station next to the highway but I really had trouble hitchhiking there.The cars were just going too fast and the sun was bright and close to my head.I asked a fat guy in the shade if he knew a better place to  hitchhike."there's a bus station right over the bridge.I take the bus everyday there.you can Hitchhike there!".I got optimistic and I went to the bus station.

    10 minutes hitchiking i see that the traffic is stopping, and i look backwards and i see a guy waving at me, and his truckvan his jamming the traffic!I quickly runned to him, chook his hand and put my things in the back of the van with open carriege.Now on the Highway with the windows open making a lot of noise and smoking a handmade cigarette, the cheap shades guy said:"You were lucky I gave you a ride!CArs there don't have the space to stop!I only gave you a ride because you remembered me the boring time i was there hitchhiking 10 years ago!".The guy was really cool.He worked in Lisbon but now he was going to his homeland, next were i was going.But he was droping me in a town half the way from Lisbon and Coimbra.We talked a lot.He had a long history with drugs, but now he was clean, taking metadone.We stopped at a gas station in the handicap parking space and I said to him it is better to put the backpack inside so noone steals it, but he said it's no problem as long as i keep an eye on it.

   I ate a sandwich there always paranoid, looking at the van so to see if anyone wouldn't steal the bag.Sometimes it was hard because all people would get in the way.I should have put the things inside.But nothing happened.The guy that gave me a ride, Victor, said fuck the tool of extra 10 euros, he would give me a ride all the way to Vila Nova do Ceira because he was going to the motard festival, close, in the town of Gois!I was really lucky.I offered him a drawing of his face and he liked it very much.I smoked a joint with him and really enjoied the view of the road that passed in the forest, with the river aside with mountains, birds and clouds.Really beautifull.We arrived at Vila Nova Do Ceira and My mother, that had an house there, went to pick me up and she took me to cabril, the place they were camping.I said goodbye to her and my aunt that came with her and went to the old place were we camped 1 year ago.The place had all the trees fallen out, and they werent there.I really had a dificult time doing acrobatics on the trees and passing under the trees with my 10 kilo backpack and my tent and the liquids.But I was hearing them and I howoled like a wolf.They Howoled back.I started to make Huga Buga sonds as i got closer and closer.The first friend I see is Tomas and i gave him a big hug.They were camping in the small plateau aside from the cliff.There  was Afonso there, my brother, felipe and joao.The rest of the guys were arriving tomorrow, because they got stuck in coimbra and they could get a bus. We had A crazy welcoming party in the night there, all the people around the fire singing and drinking.