Clothes? Check. Sleeping bag? Check. Enough books to last a year? Check. My co-hitchhiker Ulysse (blog) waiting for me in Amersfoort? Check. Passport? Che… oh crap.

After discovering that my ID-card is valid only in the EU and a few other countries, but not Albania, I had to postpone my travels. Fortunately, a (expensive) speed procedure allowed me to finally leave today.

Current stop: Amersfoort. We’re visiting Baptiste, Ulysse’s cousin, and we’ll spend the night here, and start hitchhiking tomorrow. In an effort to keep my bag as light as possible, I’m leaving some stuff here. I still haven’t decided which book to take. I love them all equally! As it is, I’m carrying six kilo’s, which is much, much less then I took on my last trip.

This will be an interesting trip. I expect this trip will be quite a bit more spartan than my other hitchhiking attempts; I’m traveling with an experienced hitchhiker who spent three months traveling to and in India on an extremely low budget.

This will also be the first time I return to Albania in five years. I’ll get a chance to practice my Albanian again, and I’ll meet old friends, and visit all the places that were part of my youth.

And, of course, just getting there will no doubt be very interesting. Our current plan is to go through Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia or Montenegro, and finally Albania.

Off we go!

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