Ludovic Hubler is a French­man who, in 2003, set off around the world with one goal — to travel all of it by hitchhiking.

This is it ! The cir­cle has finally been closed. 5 years, passed day by day since leav­ing the Alps, and now here I am back at my point of depar­ture, at the same place I left on Jan­u­ary 1st, 2003. When I started out I was 25 years old. Now I’m 30.

This per­sonal account of his expe­ri­ence is a must-read for the intre­pid trav­eller in all of us; a fas­ci­nat­ing account com­plete with philo­soph­i­cal mus­ings and sta­tis­tics on his jour­ney. He has two words for the world: “never again”… but it’s not what you think!