Pretty irrelevant, I won't stop hitching this year. In the weekend of 30 March, when "summer clock" starts, I will visit my mother by hitchhiking. That is a trip of twice 125 kilometers. This morning I passed by the official hitchhiking spot in Maastricht.

Yesterday I found that the guy that I met on the Maastricht hitching spot, who was also hitchhiking then, was a kind of "bad ass" or "rotten apple" in Couch Surfing / Hospitality Club, who at a few occasions has stolen money or properties from his hosts. This was my first confrontation with crime in hitchhiking.