Autostop en Afganistán (Hitchhiking in Afghanistan)

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🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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After the September 11th attacks in 2001, Juan Pablo Villarino was dismayed to see how people were starting to lose trust in the ultimate good of humanity. So he figured the best way to prove he was still right to trust total strangers was to hitchhike through the epicenter of the war on terror.

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0:00.0	En Argentina, no es uncommon para la pared.
0:04.2	Se callen autostop y también viajar a dedos,
0:08.6	que literalmente means to travel by finger.
0:11.6	Juan Pablo Vijarino nos allaba.
0:15.0	Autostop es su vida.
0:17.4	Mi primer viaje en autostop fue en febrero de 1998 a Villajezell.
0:25.9	La ciudad está a unos 110 kilómetros al norte de Mar del Plata,
0:32.8	donde yo vivía.
0:35.5	Empecé a calcular la distancia total que iba a tener que caminar
0:41.6	sin nadie paraba.
0:45.0	Eventually, someone did stop.
0:47.4	They took him 30 km,
0:49.2	and then another family took him the rest of the way.
0:52.5	Era una bienvenida a un mundo nuevo.
0:56.4	Once he reached his destination,
0:58.2	he spent the night on the beach,
0:59.8	and woke up to see a man sitting close to him,
1:02.2	apparently meditating.
1:04.4	They got to chatting,
1:05.6	and Juan Pablo decided to tell him
1:07.6	about his dream of quitting school
1:09.5	and dedicating his life to traveling.
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