Hitchhiking - how far have you gone?
Wednesday, December 29, 2021 3:33 PM
Life in America has changed in many ways over the past 60 years and one way it's changed is hitchhiking. In the last 5 years I have seen less than 10 hitchhikers, yet in the 60's and 70's hitchhikers were everywhere, all the time. It's how we went places before we could drive. When I was 12 I would hitchhike 25 miles each way to buy Red Sox tickets or to buy M-80s in Chinatown. So, my two questions are: 1) Have you ever hitchhiked? and 2) What is the furthest you have gone? Feel free to add in any weird moments too.
I have probably hitchhiked 1,000 times. Miami to Boston was my furthest. Got picked up by a real life Nazi one time; skipping school one day I got picked up by a drunk who rear ended a car in my hometown. Another time I got picked up by a group of ppl on LSD coming from an Aerosmith concert who t-boned my neighbor at 85 miles an hour 5 houses down the street from where I lived. In Jacksonville Florida I was one of four 13- 15-year old's a salesman had picked up throughout the day. When he started passing around the whiskey my gut instinct said jump out the station wagon window and get away, and so I did in traffic.
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