all right so I am in India I'm in Calicut and I'm currently at the train
station waiting for this girl that I met online hi guys so I found this girl on
YouTube named hiker girl her real name is rajashiri but goes more commonly by
the name AMU and she hitchhikes throughout India completely by herself
I sent her a message to find out more and after a short conversation she ended
up inviting me to join her on a hitchhiking Adventure across India I of
course said yes when I had
see the plan was to cross the entire south of India starting in the city of
Calicut and ending in the coastal city of
ramaswarams Also let's go hitchhiking so so now we are going to start our
journey the next morning bright and early we met up and immediately
gums but I was a little bit confused on how to go about hitchhiking oh no
rejection don't have any
oh he did it yeah so quick so I'll move
could you describe to me what it feels like to hitchhike for someone who's
never done it before
it feels like a
we are like clouds uh just blowing because we don't have any destination we
don't have time limits we can fly just just fly we flew through a whole lot of
land that first day hopping from truck to truck car to car meaning so many kind
drivers who felt it in their hearts to pick up two strange Backpackers on the
side of the road I didn't really know where we were headed but I just tagged
along as AMU did what she does best thank you bye-bye
now we are in Roti one of the coldest place in South India so where are we
gonna stay
I have no idea where we're gonna stay tonight but I trust AMU I had prepared
myself to find a quiet corner and sleep on the ground and then out of the blue
this sort of miracle happened and I truly mean miracle
he's my friend on clubhouse this police officer out of nowhere approached our
mood because he recognized her from his app because it had spoken weeks prior
foreign
we're back on the road we're moving the next morning we were back at it another
day of flying although that day for whatever reason it was incredibly hard
to hitch a ride someone will stop right yeah definitely the routes are patient
waiting AMU began to open up and she told me her story
we did it yeah you ready for this yeah sure why not what is your story
child marriage before 18 it's restricted by law but I don't have the awareness
about that at that time when I was 16 I'm getting married
at that time I don't want to marry anyone but my family said you must do
this in India arranged marriage is common
I don't have any other option my husband have 13 years
the thoughts are different totally different I can't able to adjust with
them it was in a jail
starting at last we are separated now now I'm a free bird
so I can do what I want
okay
you're a professional rice planter yeah simply I'm lucky
so I'm okay now I'm happy now that's it simply
the love
where are we going today okay
we are planning to stay where we reach
I quickly began to understand the rules of hitchhiking it's a game after all a
game of trust so wild jumping in strangers cars and even staying in their
homes hey guys forcing yourself to see the good in
humanity this is not how we are conditioned to see the world and
navigated
so the people ever think you're crazy yes definitely yeah
they can't understand my feelings some people
so I'm okay I just learned to learn from your experiences not from what other
people say thank you good night why I should think about
societies Outsiders I don't want to worry about them so you're getting a
haircut yeah definitely so you don't care what people think no never
thank you we are in bombardi this is a small
village actually in Tamil Nadu South India
after two full weeks of hitchhiking and staying with stranger after stranger we
arrived to this foggy Village called kumbarai an isolated farming Village
that ended up being our home for the next week
chicken I think I understand why you like hitchhiking
I think I feel what you feel
good we were invited to work with this family who owned this self-sustaining
Farm in the village we got to know them and laugh with them and share our lives
together feeling like family living a simple beautiful life
how do you feel about all the people you meet throughout your travels 99.9
good ones before the uh starting this traveling
life I have only one family my mom my dad my sister
but now I have a lot of families all over India they are like carrying me
more than my family they care for you more than your family yeah
so what about your real family
what do they think they just um you are alive you do you live
avoid me yeah
um Charlie for the last one here and my mom dad both of them don't know about my
traveling actually they can't accept my ways my dreams my thoughts so they will
become sad I don't want to disturb them
if one girl divorced from her marriage life everybody says like she's not a
good one actually her character is not good others
so it's hard people look at you strange yeah like an
alien yeah not a stranger I'm an alien for them not doing a bad thing I'm not
crazy actually the peoples are mad
in my point of view why are they mad because they don't know anything
they are not a minded persons yeah I'm not good for other ones
my character
all right I'll move so what is the goal for today we are going to rameshwaram
southern end of India 234 kilometers per month so we're up
bright and early this morning Nicole today is to make it to the very edge of
India today might be the final day of this hitchhiking Journey every people
every human slave for yours not for other ones I
just lived my past 29 years for my family relatives friends
and for the last one year I'm leaving for me
you're living for you we're getting close I can feel it
we did it
in the world the family is the most important thing
sometimes we want to cross that I mean value for happiness for our life
right yeah