From travel dairy:
In the early days of May 2015 early in the morning we advanced to receive our first hitch-hiking experience. With several cars we got to Samara (with surprising speed, still I'm surprised), experiencing the most pleasant feeling when you are practically not standing in anticipation of a car ready to give you a ride. We walked around the city, tried all the foamy "sights" of Samara, went to spend the night with my old friend Volodya and the next day went to Tolyatti, or rather to the village Khryashchevka, which was our goal. The village is famous for its Neo-Gothic creation - the castle of Garibaldi (a local rich tycoon). Surprise was no limit, as in such a godforsaken place can be so amazing thing (to everything else and insanely expensive).
Total first journey of 1000 km seemed to us something incredible, but it was only at that time, because in a month and a half we were waiting for a journey of 4000 km with the Black Sea, the Moscow Arbat and the dilapidated yards of Petersburg.
