i'm sorry mom i smuggle cigarettes for the border today i'm about to start my biggest challenge here
something i've never done before i will hitchhike from iraq to georgia crossing the entire country
of turkey crossing two borders in three days right now we are on the way to the border with turkey
okay let's go but there is a first problem it is illegal to cross the border between turkey
and iraqi kurdistan by war you must be inside the vehicle to cross this border but we don't have one
our hitchhiking only got us to the border and now we need to find a way to cross all we need is to
find the car but this was easier said than done at this border there was no place to hitchhike so
we went to zlenby we started asking people taxi drivers kept coming to us and we also had one
room no taxi no money and the taxi drivers told us that we need to be registered in the car to cross
the border to turkey and they also told us that nobody will do this for us little did they know
what happened next one man had a very interesting proposal he said you smoking's me passport then
he kept saying smoking smokings you take smokings i take passport but we gave our passport to this
stranger and registered us in his car then we went to his car and each of us got a black bag full of
cigarettes my smokings are here then we realized what is actually happening this person had over
than the maximum amount of secrets allowed to carry through the border per person so he needed
more people in his car and like that i ended up smuggling cigarettes from iraq to turkey i'm
sorry mom but i smuggled cigarettes for the board but this was not the craziest thing that happened
we're now legit hitchhiking for five hours with four people and now we're getting in a truck
okay we are on the way we are dropped off here in front of the turn to the city called
seared and suit means in armenian heart and territories has so much history because right now
kurdish people live here before they share this territory with armenians and now uh
it's turkey the sun started going down and we still don't have a place to sleep for tonight
we are running out of battery we don't have any food anymore and it's getting very cold in the
evenings but then after a couple of minutes this car stopped and this happened so we're just here
checking his whole road and then he asked us yeah do you need anything and we kind of jokingly said
yeah please a place to sleep and guess what he just invited four strangers here we are and
there's a beautiful apartment amazing view this month he was so kind he invited his friend over
we played some games he ordered food for us and he gave us this room with this amazing view for
the night very grateful for meeting you and thank you so much for hosting us and i wish you all the
best with your plans to go into europe and hope to see you again maybe thank you for everything
i think he reads faster than these talks
thank you thank you very much goodbye and trust me we really needed a good
rest because what happened next um wait actually what what happened next
i'm the drunk driver because what happened next was really crazy
five kilometers only to give us but we can go anyway five and five and five
probably ready car like number 10. thank you
so i already lost count i don't know how many cars we changed today and we are right
now one hour away from our destination the city small city is called cars and there are no cars
to cars at all like how is it going good night the first car
that car turns into the city and nobody gets to this
road yet we're not gonna give up i can hear another one oh that's a big truck
just like that's how we do
close close let's close
oh i feel tired
these cars don't stop and there's like one car in five or ten minutes and they still don't stop
and now we're asking at the gas station if we can sleep here the only option is
the gas station or just to knock to the doors of uh nearby houses is there any place to sleep
there's no place to eat here no it's here no it's sleeping yes is it possible to sleep
here we have a sleeping bag and mattress it's impossible for you to stay here maybe upstairs
let me ask our boss one okay
the people on the petrol station if they can take us to the to the cars and i'm not really
sure what they say but probably we can go they say like maybe you will know the law
of the car here you come with us that's what the translator said i mean so they're going to cars
yeah they're going to cars yeah and we're going with them probably i mean
the the [ __ ] day stuffs at the back now probably make the place for us
do they know that we are four people yes okay so they're going to cars i think so yeah
foreign gonna be shocked how much stuff we have it is going to cars
happy days yeah i'm not sure yet how we're gonna fit okay with the four backpacks and four people
in the back but we have no other option maybe really no other option yeah so that's where the
whole fun starts we have four people with four big backpacks the whole trunk was full and even on the
back seat they had some bags and stuff we had to sit so tight almost one on another holding our
huge backpacks there was no room to move a handle to change a position and we were like stuck in a
car so bad that we couldn't even close the door ourselves that the driver had to come from the
other side push us a little bit further so he can close the door we started driving that is
so he reached his hand to the can and he started drinking then he started to smell like an alcohol
and the music was louder the speed was faster and he was drinking more and more always thinking i
just want to get there safe the second i had that thought pulled over by police just decided to
check out driver and he failed the alcohol test and then they started the whole investigation
took everything out of the car checked every bag here we are again in the middle of the night
then one of the police officers was so kind and offered to take us to the closest hotel
and it was our first night sleeping in a hotel since we started the journey but that was not
the end and then the crazy challenge happened again while crossing the border to georgia
this morning it is just three of us it's our last hour
in turkey we're very close to the border everything gradually is changing
so the truck stopped and we're going now to the city close to the border
guys we just wish to ride on the back of a truck and here we go oh my goodness
first though i'm so happy all the way while hitchhiking
i was wishing for this and and it came true just and here we are our last moments in turkey
and look at this place like amazing mountains is so beautiful this is so amazing
i'm so grateful for life and entering georgia this way so see you in georgia oh happy day
while crossing the border to georgia on the website it says that you need to have vcr tests or
a vaccination me and jesse we had both but daniel didn't have a pcr test and we wanted to have a
celebration and dinner together he went back to the city took a pizzeria test and two hours later
he was back and crossed the border and we met him on the other side it was impossible but we made it
here we are we are in batumi in georgia it was the craziest border crossing ever but if it is to us
well we made it we made it and it was a unforgettable experience