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.

[InsomniacMike486]

So how many drugs did you do on a daily basis during your travels?

[CapnAwesome]

So how many drugs did you do on a daily basis during your travels?

I'm not really into drugs, other than smoking pot.

[brewer]

How about worst living conditions, for you and then for the indigenous population?

What about food? Best food, worst, most strange (Anderw Zim fan)? Comments on street food.

[CapnAwesome]

How about worst living conditions, for you and then for the indigenous population?

What about food? Best food, worst, most strange (Anderw Zim fan)? Comments on street food.

Well I've slept in a million weird places. Mostly I live in a tent, although right now I actually live in a room for the summer and I have a truck. Also thinking about buying a sailboat. I had no idea how affordable sailboats are. Basically every large south and central American city has enormous slums. I think it's ironic that Americans think of Mexico as a poor country. Not really, not if you compare it to everything south of it. Lima was pretty crazy when it came to slums. My friend who I went there with grew up in Caracus, Vensualua and a series of mudslides in 1999 killed around 50,000 people living in the slums on the hillside there.

Mexico has the best food of anywhere I've been, easily. The first time I spent significant time there I gained 15 lbs. The rest of Latin America is rather bland and I would say Chile has the worst food. Their national dish is something called the 'completo' which is a hotdog with a grotesque amount of mayo on it and some fake guacomole. In Peru I ate Cuy, which in Guinuea Pig. It tasted a little like beef. In Australia I had Kangaroo, which tasted like venison. In Columbia I ate Pirahana, which tasted like fish and had way too many bones.

My comment on street food is that I never seem to get sick from it. I think all the liquor I was drinking killed off the bacteria or something. I've never been to India though, I think that's the real test for street food and travelers diarrhea.

[Exian]

How have you not been murdered immediately? It's hard enough to not be murdered at home.

[Salacious B. Crumb]

I really enjoyed the videos. That seems like a great way to experience life.

Any close calls with spiders, snakes, scorpions, etc. (especially in Australia) ?

[InsomniacMike486]

I didn't know if this was like a fear and loathing thing or not

[Excited Penguin]

The videos don't work for me for some reason(can't see them at all)... Mind sharing the links in a different way?

[brewer]

The videos don't work for me for some reason(can't see them at all)... Mind sharing the links in a different way?

Try hitting the "Reply" button in the OP. That's the only way I can see them.