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I hitch-hiked a ride from the farm to the Nashville airport this year with a crazy hippie redneck family in some jalopy of a hippie van. It was awesome.
I plan on it someday. I live in Ohio and I plan on hitchhiking to San Francisco or somewhere on the west coast and hitchhiking back over the corse of a summer. I think it would be a neat experience and a chance to see the U.S. I'm just a little skeptical of how it will work out.
Post by luciddream5 on Oct 9, 2008 22:00:29 GMT -5
I honestly don't know where I'll go. I just want to go. I want to experience life in a new way. I want to experience the ways of nature and see the land.
I have. I used to do it alot when I had a girlfriend that lived in Memphis. But this was also the early 90's and if you asked me to do it now I'd laugh at you. It was alot of fun and I have a ton of stories from it though. The best bit of advice that I can give is always keep a few newspapers and a lighter handy. If the driver gets ... um ... fresh ... light the newspaper and throw it in the back seat. They will stop to get it. Then run like hell.. There was a book I used I can't seem to find a picture hut here is a link for it. www.amazon.com/Hitchhiking-America-Using-Golden-Thumb/dp/0963191004/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223631584&sr=8-1
Its called Hitchhiking in America: Using the Golden Thumb and its by this dude Dale Carpenter. Dale was a legend. He hitched over 30,000 miles. Thats still amazing to me.
Another resource that I found after the fact was this site.
Post by canexplain on Oct 10, 2008 13:31:18 GMT -5
i used to hitchhike a lot back in the day .... the last time i did hitch for any distance was from denver to woodstock 99 ...only took two pickups to get there .... and i plan on doing the same next year if WS 09 comes about .. but then i am a guy ...cr****
I'm too scared of the weirds of the world to hitch-hike. I do have a couple friends who do it on a suto-regular basis, but they are weirds themselves....
I hitchiked once when I was about 18 years old...it was defintiely not my proudest moment. I was completely wasted after going to a college town about an hour and half away...you could get into bars at 18 there but none in my city. On the way home I got into a drunken fight with my friends who were just as irrational as I was at the time. Well, I got pissed and jumped out of the car and ran to the other side of the interstate. A group of people in their late 20's early 30's (my age now) stopped and gave me a ride back to Shreveport. they were on their way to a Dallas Cowboys game! Man I had a killer hangover the next day. I crashed at my brother's apartment becuase I was so pissed at my roommates. It turnd out alright, I didn't get gutted or raped, but I know it was dangerous and risky!
I used to hitch a lot. Had no other means of transportation. I used to hitch a ride everyday for a 20 mile ride to work in Knoxville in the 80's. Eventually got a bicycle to ride though. And when I was a teen, we moved about 40 miles out in the country and I'd hitch rides on weekends back to town to see my friends. Never had a problem and met some interesting people. You do end up walking a lot on some days.
I also pick up hitch -hikers quite often. I tend to discount the climate of fear that is promoted in our society. The VAST majority of people are just decent folks. If I end up dead in a ditch one day, at least I had a very nice, fear free life while it lasted. And maybe I'm banking good karma along the way.
Of course being a guy it's different. I wouldn't ever recommend a girl hitch or pick up a hitcher.
Post by handgunhipster on Oct 20, 2008 13:46:44 GMT -5
I have a male friend who hitchhiked all the way from Alabama to Nevada. It blew my mind that he did it, but he and two of his friends all managed to make it to Nevada, and they had the best stories to tell afterwords.
But since I'm a girl, I must agree with the comment that a girl hitchhiking/picking up hitchers is a bit different.
Oh yeah, if I were a girl, there's no way in hell I'd hitch-hike. I'm a guy, and even I was pretty nervous about thumbing a ride to get off of the farm. I finally got picked up by this very... unique... family. They were basically nomadic hippies and redneck Christians at the same time. I won't go into detail here to explain everything, but suffice it to say, that was definitely one of the most interesting things that happened to me the entire weekend (and that is saying a lot).
My uncle has some pretty awesome stories about when he dropped out of Arizona State and hitch-hiked through the desert by himself, taking lots of psychedelics along the way. This would have been sometime in the early '70s, back when hitch-hiking was a fair bit safer than it is today.
This is also the same uncle who used to be a huge hipster back in his day, and if you were in a punk band or a progressive rock act based in New York City from about 1972 to about 1979, there is an excellent chance he knew you... but that's a whole 'nother story for a whole 'nother time.
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