Verb conjugation of "hocken" in German

All people held signs with names on them and on one plate I saw name, of course misspelled. I went with the person to his oldtimer car. We drove to his cottage and I was surprised about the nice reception.
In my next message to you I want to write everything in German. Than I will rewrite it in English and we can compare the output. This way you see the text in your mother tongue and in a foreign language.
Anyway, on our last day in Sapa, we hired a taxi driver, payed him twenty dollars and asked him to drive us around for a few hours. We had the Tram Ton pass in mind which separated two climate regions.