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In Europe it is so easy. Millions of travelers drive north, south, east and west daily, through densely populated areas, with thousands of people clamoring for a cheap lift. Although, head outside Europe and finding a spare passenger seat to help you along on your travels becomes a bit trickier.While the original services were largely based in Germany, both sites have expanded now to cover much of Europe. From Norway to Ukraine, from Britain to Slovenia, there are potential rides criss-crossing the continent. You’d have to be a bit lucky to find exactly the ride you were after if it’s outside of Germany, but the possibility exists. As for understanding these German websites, the Mitfahrzentrale has English and French translations built into the site, but the Mitfahrgelegenheit is still working on it – right now they just link English-speaking users to a Babelfish-translated site that doesn’t quite sound like normal English.The Germans might be the original and best, but there are a number of other organizations in Europe to help travelers looking for lifts. In fact, it seems like rising gas prices are probably increasing the demand for shared lifts, for commuters as well as travelers, so in Europe at least, organized hitchhiking might be the way of the future rather than the past.The French version of lift sharing websites, for example, is called (car pool) and most of the rides on offer here are from one part of France to the other. Understanding where the rides are going and when is relatively simple to see on the site, but unless you have some French skills, getting any further information out of the site might be tricky. Curiously, the site links to apparent car pooling websites in other languages but at this stage still keeps returning you to the French-only Covoiturage pages.Based in Austria,  uses the slogan “we bring europe together” and claims around 8,000 users, but unfortunately the use of English finishes there and only German speakers will find it useful. Also, they’re big on marketing, and interestingly they sell cigarette lighters sporting their logo on eBay.Let’s start in the USA, where the most common way to find a ride to share is through the websites. There is a popular Craigslist for many of the large cities in the US, and they include a rideshare forum. Here there is no structure to the offers other than a chronological listing according to the time someone posted the message, so it’s not easy to locate either a driver or a passenger. Craigslists are starting to appear for other parts of the world, too, but it’s rare to find any organized hitchhiking offers on these sites.

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