Ask a hitchhiking hippy....

[CapnAwesome]

How about best and worst time thumbing it (other than craziest)?

Well I've gone on a couple of dates with girls who've picked me up hitchhiking. So I guess those are probably the best rides. Oh, one time I was hitching just a short ways and got picked up by 4 Norwegian college girls who all giggled a lot. I got picked up by an absolutely stunningly beautiful woman who introduced herself by saying "Just so you know, I'm a police officer in Oregon and I have a firearm on me."

The worst is getting stuck. In Argentina I was stuck for 24 hours in the blistering hot desert with no shade and a ballizion biting flies eating us. That was probably the worst experience. It was so frustrating. One time with a girlfriend who I was hitching with we got picked up by a guy with a boatload of guns in his trunk who was raving angrily about "How my wife thinks I have a FUCKING ANGER PROBLEM!!" I got picked up for a 500 mile ride once by someone who blared pop country the whole time. Those are probably the worst that I can think of.

The best places I've hitched from are Indian Reservations and the worst is any city, the central valley in california probably the worst place to hitch out of that I've been to.