Gran Canaria

Update
As I just started this site I'm gonna start with what is going on right now and I'll the road trip on my thum down through Europe.

Boaaaat trips from Lisaboa to Gran Canaria
The short story is that after hitchhiking from Denmark to (my goal) Portugal I actually wanted to take a fligt to the states. But I've had this naiv idea about getting further on the same "thum manner", so I went to the habour to see if could find a boat. First I tryed to find a coaster which went to the States but that was't possible. To many rules, regulations and paperwork -blotty burecrathy (how is that spelled?)! Anyway. A guy told me to try private yachts. So I now went around asking sail boats if they were crossing the Atlantic. It paid of! I got a ride with a danish boat to Madeira. We stopped first at another island called Porto Santo (warm water here: snorkled all the time). It took 5 days or so on the sea plus the time we spended on the islands. Madeira is so blotty beatyful! It's green and less touristed than Gran Canaria which compared is very dry. From there I got a ride with a norwegian boat "Bonanza" to Gran Canaria. Cool lads. 4 guys who bought their own boat and are sailing the seas for a year. I'm jealous!

Found Job
I've been so blotty lucky! I found a job short after I arrived here. I'm a driver at a Jeep-safari and drives around the island with pale fat tourists in a open Jeep (actually it's a Nissan Patrol). Its cool, but blotty dusty, though. It's not paying much; 25 Euros a day plus tips and breakfast and lunch. Thats nice, cause now I actually get some deacent food again which I'm sure will be some comfort for my mother. But have to say that I'm kind a fed up with driving around the same dusty off road tracks now, so I'm looking forward to move on. I was offered a "promotion" to be a guide for the english tourists. That would have been a bit more challaging, but then I should have to stay here and I was hooked on getting to the Carabean, so I turned it down.