Steemfest hitchhiking recap!

People on the road

I've decided to make a quick video recap from the footage I had on my GoPro from my hitchhiking adventure to and from Steemfest.

I had an incredible blast, and am still amazed by all the beautiful people I met. Not only Steemians themselves, but incredible people giving me a ride.

One of the rides that still remains vivid in memory is a German truckdriver. I was stuck a little bit before Paris on my way back to Belgium. Now if you have any experience hitchhiking, you'd know, Paris is hell. Everyone goes to it, but nobody goes past it (well not a lot of people at least).

I asked him if he was going past Paris, and he quite immediately said "Yes, jump in". Usually it takes a bit of talking back and forth, but he just felt that because he was going that way anyways, it was common sense to take me with. The whole fearmongering we're so used to from society, didn't seem to have an effect on him.

When we got to talking he told me about his big dream: once he'd retire, he was going to buy a camper (how German I know) and take that camper to all the beautiful sites he had passed with his truck, but never could actually visit.

I love how, when hitchhiking, people seem to open up very easily. It also made me realize how beautiful most people are. Every single person has a story, a dream, hopes, ideas for the future.

The current problem with our world, in my opinion, is that we don't really have dialogue anymore. Everyone is spewing their opinions left and right, without listening, to often valid, points of the other side.

I have a very strong vision on the world myself, but I do try to understand where people who disagree with me are coming from. And lo and behold, at times after having a good dialogue I could change my vision and people I talked with might have changed theirs.

It seems this post became a slight bit of a rant. So without further ado; here is the video recap!