Summary: Depart from Lanzhou, take 3 cars, and arrive at Pingchuan District of Baiyin City
Hitchhiking locations
This is the second time in Lanzhou this city hitchhiking, before to Xining is not this road, now to go to Ningxia, tonight's goal is to Yinchuan, a total of more than four hundred kilometers, the biggest challenge since the hitchhiking trip, never had a day before to walk so far.
I didn't have a little impression of the ethnic minority area in front of me, and later heard a driver say that Ningxia's economy and society are more developed than Gansu's, because: "The World Yellow River Funingxia." Although the Yellow River flows through Gansu and Ningxia at the same time, the riverbed in Gansu is very low, and the land on both sides cannot be irrigated by the Yellow River water, which may be why Lanzhou has a water wheel. Ningxia is different, there is the Hetao Plain, both sides of the Yellow River are not only fertile land, scenery is good, many tourist attractions in Ningxia are on the Yellow River.
After climbing the highway I did not stop, but kept going north, in a turning place, I sat on the side of the road to change my socks, haha, seems to be a little obscene, write out not afraid of your jokes, just think that I should truly restore my situation at that time. The weather is very good, I need to re-establish my confidence, I have no plans to enter Ningxia, and I rely entirely on the experience accumulated in these ten days to face new challenges. Without further ado, let's take a look at what the highway outside Lanzhou looks like
Expressway outside Lanzhou
In the April season, even the trees in Lanzhou are not green, most of them are yellow and yellow. Carrying a camera in my hand, I will take a ride while walking, before the ride I usually hold an atlas in my hand, so that the driver can see it and quickly react that I am a tourist, and when I hitchhike, people say that I don't know where I can quickly check the map.
Now, I prefer to carry a camera in my hand, which can give others a clearer hint.
"See? I'm a donkey friend, hitchhiker! ”
Before I didn't want to take the camera, I thought it was too obvious, and now I decided to take it out because I was afraid of encountering the situation yesterday, and no one took care of me in the afternoon! Look at the above photo, not far in front of my photo there is a truck parked there, it is estimated that it broke down, like this on the highway emergency stop of the car I generally do not ask, because I am not sure when the car can be back on the road, and the driver has enough trouble, it is not good to bother people.
After the truck, I didn't have long to go, I stopped a private car, the front co-pilot was empty, but the back seat of the car two other men, I still have that set of customs:
"Hello, Master, are you going to Ningxia?"
"Well, we don't go to Ningxia, only to the front of Baiyin City"
"Oh, this way, then you can see if you can take me for free for a while, to the front of Baiyin City, I want to go to Ningxia"
The driver turned to the two men behind him and asked:
"Okay, you see?"
"Free?" You have to charge some tolls..."
A man sitting in the back spoke. I saw that there was almost no drama, the driver seemed to be hanging up the gear, the car was slowly moving forward, I fought with him again, the driver was also very good, and helped me and the people behind me to fight for a bit, and finally it was done. Haha, I didn't expect a set of conventions to go all over the world. After getting into the car, only the driver chatted with me, and the two people in the back basically did not speak, and I never saw who was sitting behind me. I didn't bother to care about it, after all, the driver has the final say, someone to support me on the line!
Later, I learned that they were not a group, the two people in the back seemed to have chartered this car, and the driver was just a worker for others, and it was not easy to win me to get on the car. Let me say: Thank you! This success once again added a lot of confidence to me, sweeping away the haze of yesterday. Silver City is very close, it didn't take long to arrive, at the intersection of Silver West Road I got off the car, but I can't see a little silver city shadow, it should be far away, the time is also early, don't worry about the problem of accommodation, and then continue to work hard is the most important.
Silver City Expressway Exit
I remember not long after getting out of the car, I ran into a road maintenance car with a lot of equipment in the back. Far away I began to beckon, the car drove close after I found that there was something wrong, I think it seems to be looking for the wrong object, did not expect people to actually park, asked me how to walk alone in this kind of place, of course, I have what to say, they let me go up, but also said that this car according to the regulations We can not carry irrelevant personnel, can only send you to the front of a road, there is a bus to Yinchuan, this kind of local car does not stop.
It wasn't that far away, and it only took me a few minutes to get off the bus again. When I got off the bus, the driver also told me that I would just wait here, and it wouldn't be long before the bus came, all to Yinchuan. As they said, it was indeed a place to wait for the car, and when I got out of the car, I saw that there was already a person waiting there, and look, the picture below is it.
Wait for the car to go to Yinchuan
In the past, I learned that he also went to Yinchuan, and we briefly chatted a few words, did not say anything, he seemed to mean that: let's wait together! Haha, I thought to myself: you wait, I can't afford to wait! I told him that I couldn't wait, there was an urgent matter to hurry, to see if any car was willing to take me, I will go first, you wait slowly.
I remember the first day I went out, I used it when I was still in Taiyuan, and I didn't expect to use it here. In this way, it is estimated that not many people can understand the meaning of hitchhiking, so as not to be entangled in how to explain it to others. From the look in his eyes, I saw incredulous, and seemed to think that I was joking, but the next few minutes I kind of let him see my skills, I am not joking!
Because almost at the same time, when he stopped a bus, I also got into a private car in front of his eyes! I think at that time, he must not have a taste in his heart, the same is to go to Yinchuan, it turned out that he could still go like this! Maybe he can never understand that the car can also be free. This is the progress of the times!
Stopped is an SUV, the driver master looks very familiar, all because he looks like a chivalrous, his first feeling to me is a certain master in a martial arts movie! Don't look at him as just a chivalrous person, he is also very chivalrous, very modest and kind, and always looks like he is particularly willing to listen to others, so I talked to him a lot of my ideas and observations.
When I talked about how I was touched by the show "Ride to Berlin", we found a common topic, and he said that he had watched the show too! I also admire people like us who go around the world. I also asked him if he was willing to take me because he watched the show, and he said that he was not, and he would often do this, and when he saw someone on the side of the road who needed help, he would usually stop the car.
This is the first time I have asked someone why a driver is willing to take me, why? Every driver will have his own answer, and perhaps no one else has ever thought about asking for anything in return. Virtue is really intrinsic, from the heart, from the soul.
The master's car is not far, after reaching Pingchuan District, I have to get off again, by this time I have taken three cars, have not left this part of Gansu, if you can't take a long-distance private car, tonight to Yinchuan is really a little difficult. It's so far away that I can't necessarily get there even if I take a long-distance truck, which is too slow and only half the size of a private car, so I can only hope to catch a private car.
(To be continued)