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Things fit together when you travel like this. When you don't really have plans you come to see it all falls into place.

— Reese

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Green tunnel, delirium and recovery

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Don't fall asleep at the wheel

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Ten Different Captains

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Evasion book review

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Will Ferguson Updated: Winter Hitching in Japan

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On The Way to Odessa: The Road Is Life

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The Importance of Border Stamps

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A Train of Thoughts: Catching Up on Letting Go

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hitch hiking in reverse

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Butterflies Invading Rabbit Holes

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A hitchhiking magazine

Stick up your thumb, go from one place to another. Feel the road, hear the cars, find your drivers. In your hands a sign, in your bag your towel, food, clothes and... this magazine! Showing your driver something tangible like a hitchhiking magazine...

Our goals

We want your content, your stories! We want hitchhiking stories, about the culture of free-fall traveling, nomadism. We want photo-stories, anecdotes, post-cards, your art-work, comics. Any format and subject can do as long as it is related to what...

Your role

Random Roads needs different people to help bringing this magazine to what it potentially could be. We aim at being a completely grassroots driven magazine. Maybe you want to help also? We need Contributors, Proof-readers, Editors, Designers and...

Guidelines for Quality

Random Roads likes quality and creativity. We like having our own style and we like to be good at what we do. To help this, we have set up some simple guidelines for your creative journey, which you will find below. When reading these, do keep in...

Off The Map

A punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the anarchist travel story, Off the Map is narrated by two young women as they discard their maps, fears, and anything resembling a plan, and set off on the winds of the world.

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Hitching Rides with Buddha

Take a humorist from the Great White North — one part Bob and Doug McKenzie, the other Bill Bryson — feed him lots of sake, and set him loose hitchhiking his way through polite Japanese society. The result is one of the warmest and funniest...

Hand to Mouth to India

Tom wrote Hand to Mouth to India in 1997/8 at the age of 20. It tells of the journey he made hitchhiking from England to India with no money. He was full of the tales of the East where sadhus, sufis and mystics trust themselves to the Fates and...

Some journeys (thankfully) just don't end.

Here I stood, at a forgotten truck stop, staring out from Poland on to The Czech Republic wondering why, and how. This morning should have been an omen. But I was too eager to leave, to be back on the road. It all started when I woke up, opened my...

19 200 litres of jet fuel

I have just flown from Barcelona to Amsterdam in 60 000 kilos of steel speeding through the sky. It took three hours. When I boarded, it was 28 degrees, when I arrived at my destination: 13 degrees. My eyes,‭ my skin, my clothes, were all very used...

One more cup of coffee. Hitchhiking in Syria.

I had decided to start early, but the Syrian hospitality and friendliness of Omar’s neighbours keeps me drinking one last cup, and again, one more cup of coffee before leaving. The neigbour’s boy, Ali, and I are making pictures for the photo album...

We Never Shared Names

It costs 29 euro to take the train from Heerlen to Amsterdam, which seems reasonable, especially since I want to support the efficient, comfortable and comprehensive Dutch mass transit system. But it misses the point - the point which is about...

When You Are All Whatever It All Clicks Together

You shouldn't think too much how hard something might be, you should just go on the road and find your way by doing it. Just believe it can be done and you will see it will happen. It is sometimes hard to figure out ''where is this damn highway''...

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