From Popayan I got a ride with a trucker towards Pasto. We were about an hour and a half away when the sun began to set and the trucker got told he couldn’t keep driving because there’d been an accident which had blocked part of the road ahead. So I had to get out and quickly find another ride, or else end up stuck on this high plateau in the dark, which wouldn’t have been great. But I was very lucky and got picked up almost immediately by a couple of lovely Russians, Kate and Sla, driving from Alaska to Chile. They ended up giving me a three-day ride, first that night to a high-altitude lake and then all the way into Ecuador. Sometimes life just works out.
And that’s all you’re getting.
Total distance hitchhiked: 62,313 km.
Total number of rides: 448.