It takes three hours and two lifts to hitch from Volos to Thessaloniki – Greece’s second largest city. My second lift is two twenty-something girls who’ve clearly never considered picking up a hitchhiker before. I approach them at a service station and convince them to take me, despite their hesitation – “Wait… you’re backpacking Europe……
Sma left Maria’s house a good hour before me, but here she is at the hitching spot when I arrive. I want to travel alone for a while and we’re going seperate ways – she to Thessaloniki and I to Volos. Well, they aren’t such different ways really, so we team up. It’s another hour…
Anthony and I wait as directed in the coffee bar in Agios Nikolaos, where Camil arrives shortly to pick us up. This is really a stroke of luck – a lift out of Trahila followed by another one all the way to Kalamata with friends of the community (see last post). Camil has a dentist…
A Girl and Her Thumb 