Ah, but I love the hiking part of hitchhiking, and I always have a strippenkaart with me :). I'm not a tourist, I'm a professional hitchhiker! Anyway, we're talking details; the main point: there are several ways to leave Maastricht to the west! For the overview of good hh spots in the Netherlands (http://www.franknature.nl/hitchhike/hitchhike.htm) the spot in Veldwezelt may be good to mention indeed because many ppl don't have a strippenkaart, however that's one out of some 100+ Dutch spots described by me, to which you'd actually take a bus... Oh Maastricht-Veldwezelt (10 km) by bus 1,60 euro, Maastricht-Hasselt (35 km) with the same bus 2,50 euro... :D So well, I forgot the route, if it stops near the roundabout east of Bilzen, then you'd not make a bad choice going there by bus :D :D :D

PS. Keep on smiling :D