Flagging down a flying saucer might be easier!
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
I already wrote about hitchhiking in Thailand in this blog, strongly advising tourists against doing it. Not because it is dangerous, though it could always be, but mainly because the Thais don’t hitchhike, they don’t know what it is and thus they wouldn’t stop to pick up a hitchhiker. But some people don’t do their homework before they leave, and yesterday in Hua Hin we saw a Farang, walking and sweating under the sun with his thumb up.
My wife asked me why he was carrying a big sign with “Prachuap” written on it in Thai letters. I said that’s because he wants to go to Prachuap. She said ‘What, he’s going to walk to Prachuap? He must be crazy!’ See? That tells you how much Thai people know about hitchhiking. So I explained my wife that he was hoping for a free ride, and she said no Thai would ever stop for him, as they had no clue what he was doing. I said yes, of course, I already wrote about it in my blog! But she said my blog was not that famous, and I had to agree.
Anyway I laughed and said only another Farang could recognize a hitchhiker and stop for him, so he could as well have spared the trouble of writing Prachuap in Thai, English would have been enough. But instead of laughing with me, my wife asked me why I didn’t stop to tell him!




