A French traveler has hitchhiked around the world without spending any money on transportation. The Daily Mail reported that Jeremy Marie spent five years traveling over 100,000 miles and went all around the world, relying on the kindness of strangers for free rides.
He did everything from hiking in Sedan to traveling through Kazakhstan and has visited over 71 countries. The 29 year old has taken all sorts of transportation for free including, cars, boats, planes and even a donkey.
"Remarkably despite his 180,000km trip, Jeremy has not paid a penny towards his transport and instead relied on the generosity of strangers to give him a free ride," reported The Daily Mail. "During his trip he hitchiked and sofa surfed his way across Europe, USA, South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and plenty more in between."
The well traveled young man said to The Daily Mail, 'My passion for travelling came when I stayed with a Polish family as part of a school foreign exchange trip. This desire to travel led me to live a year abroad, when I went to live in Wales.During this year I also had the opportunity to visit England and Ireland. It was in the green and very hilly city of Dublin I had my first taste of hitchhiking."
Jeremy says that hitchhiking is a good way to meet new people and see the world from a local's view.
"When I came back from Wales. I started a tour of Europe with a friend. we hitchiked our way through Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, England and France.
The next logical step was to travel the world so I set myself the goal of touring the world by hitch-hiking," he said. "Hitchhiking makes it possible to meet local people, it makes it easier to make friends on your travels.
Another benefit of hitch-hiking is by being a pedestrian you have greater freedom, all I had was a bag and I had the freedom to go wherever I liked, whenever I liked."
Jeremy noted to The Daily Mail that the best part of his trip was hitching a lift on a sailboat in Cartagena, where the British captain took him on as a crewmate.
He met his girlfriend in Bali, Indonesia and is now living there writing a book about his travels.
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