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From Dresden-Neustadt DB station; take bus number 81 (WILSCHDORF) to the stop 'Am Olter'. This should not take longer than fifteen minutes. Here you are right at 'Dresden Hellerau' interchange of B170 and A4 / A13 direction Leipzig as well as Chemnitz. You can try to directly hitchhike there or to use 'Rastanlage Dresdner Tor' (10 minutes/12 kilometers from here) as a relais.
ATTENTION! If you don't feel like standing for hours on an onramp hoping you will get a ride to the holy land of the west, or being stuck on a lousy gasstation somewhere not even outside of the city, but approaching people on a very good service station instead, follow these instructions. Go to DRESDEN HAUPTBAHNHOF, buy a ticket to Warthenau (only 2 euros). In Warthenau you will have the feeling you are in the middle of nowhere, well you are, and there's nothing wrong with that, breath in the air of the beautiful east! Take the exit and walk right, descending a semi-gravel road. Take a right under the viaduct, turn right again. Here you will see a beautiful old German Inn, 'Gasthof Warthenau'. Walk to the Gasthof, then cross the street facing the Elbe river, here you will see several busstops, take the busstop feauturing BUS 331 (it has no canapy). Take this bus to Huhndorf, only two stops. ATTENTION!: this bus only runs three or four times a day, so figure out what train you should take in order to avoid an hour waiting time (which is actually not a disaster considering you can relax in the sun lying in the grass right next to the elbe river, which i have done yesterday, what a blast), but still. You can figure this out to go to the information desk at the hauptbahnhof in Dresden, they have all the information. Arriving in Huhndorf (a beautiful mountain village) walk in the direction the bus just came for a bout 10 metres, then turn right to 'Am Rasthof' (meaning 'at the service station') and yes, that really is the name of the street, not surrounded with cars but with wheat fields instead. Walk down the road and you will see a tree on your right carrying delicious plums. Munch on them and then continue your short journey to the service station (about a 10 minute hike), take second left, you will see a house (a cheap hotel) turn right and you will find yourself on an incredibly awesome service station, with restaurants, a giant truck resting area and a people getting gasoline driving all to the west. I found a ride within 5 minutes. If you want to head to Holland, first try to hitch hike to Leipzig and then Magdeburg-Hannover, this way you avoid hitch hiking thru the Ruhr-area, which is a pain-in-the-ass. This option works awesome and I was kinda surprised it wasn't on hitch wiki yet. Screw onramps, love service stations!
=== South towards [[Prague]] ([[A17 (Germany)|A17]]) ===
