A man enters a room full of flashing lights and promises. He is damned and disowned. He has an erection. He has a gun. The gun this man carries can fire a thousand bullets in one minute.
Remember; this is the USA. This is the home of the brave; the land of opportunity.
Every time I hitchhike, I make great new connections; people who look after me and show me how far you can take generosity and friendliness. I don’t only just get a ride, they share with me their stories, their opinions, their music or hard earned wisdom of life…
After about 10 minutes of waiting, a car with three young Englishmen in it picked me up. They’re the “Young’uns” and were on their way to perform at the festival! They’ve just landed in Australia and I gave them some Aussie slang lessons delivered with a German accent…
I found this cool company – DISRUPT – that does custom skateboards. The team at DISRUPT are partnering with Raw Safari as sponsors and they are giving readers of Raw Safari an extra 10% off, just because they are nice people…
As I started festival-hopping, I got into the “scene of crazy people”… Instead of spending all their money on a car or on public transport, they would just hitchhike everywhere…
Coming from Australia, New Zealand is familiar, but also oddly different. One obvious difference is the size of the lumps. The landscape here looks a bit like Australia, only stretched, like someone scaled a picture on Photoshop…
It’s a bit of an experiment, but it’s working out great so far…
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…The night is a resounding success. We fill the car with food and only get yelled at by a security guard once. We get back to the house, tired, smelly, and smeared with yoghurt, but victorious. Bread, fruit, vegetables, watermelon, strawberries, meat, sausages, a pork roast, a leg of lamb, eggs, cakes, muffins, milk, chocolates……
When I was in The Netherlands, I met a nano engineer. I didn’t know that was a thing either. Me and Nia were hitchhiking south toward Belgium. This guy picked us up, and he was very friendly, and invited us to have a coffee with him. He had to go past his house before…
…His hands were all over her. He was trying to take off her clothing..! I was completely incredulous… I acted without thinking. There was a heavy timber sandwich board, leaning against the wall, and I picked it up, with both hands, and bashed the indecent cretin on the back of the head with it……
…They start pushing me, in the chest, pretty hard. I step back, as far as I can, but the wall of the theatre is behind me, and so I’ve got nowhere to go really. Then one of them hit me in the face. And the pain was intense. And… I felt dizzy. And they hit…