Hitchhiking

[arewethereyet]

Saw an article about things from the 70s that no one does today...one of those things is hitchhiking.

Have you ever?  Or have you ever picked up a hitchhiker?

I have done both.  Lived to tell about it.

[Jackalope]

I have both hitchhiked and picked up hitchhikers, mostly uneventful.

One time four of us were traveling from southern Oregon to Portland and we had a tire blowout near Albany after midnight. We got picked up by two drunks in a motorhome. Would not recommend.

Another time I picked up a homeless hippie on I-5 in Oregon. Dude whips out a huge knife...and made himself a PB sammich. Fun times.

[Ravenshire]

I've never hitched, but I have picked some up. Always uneventfully.

I wouldn't go so far as to say no one does it any more, but it has certainly decreased drastically. I still see the occasional hitcher on freeway on-ramps, usually outside the Denver metro, though.

[arewethereyet]

Moving back to Iowa from Arizona, my then husband didn't calculate just how much gas traveling in the mountains in New Mexico would be. It was February, so a little brisk in the middle of the night. And yes, we ran out of gas. So we hitched a ride with a trucker...my two daughters in tow. He took us to a gas station where the girls and I stayed till the men were able to get a can of gas back to our car and then husband get back to pick us up.

I doubt the girls even remember.

Picked up a couple young guys hitchhiking in Arizona who looked like they were about to pass out from the heat. Luckily for them I carried water in the car like you are supposed to in the desert. Dropped them off when I had to turn off of Interstate 10. They looked like cooked lobsters...their plan to hitchhike to where they were going wasn't a great one.

I made a couple short trips from my hometown to the 'big' town to the east of us. Got picked up one time by a man whose daughters later babysat for my kids.

There are times I wonder just how I managed to live this long considering some of the dumb shit I have done.

[brewer]

Saw an article about things from the 70s that no one does today...one of those things is hitchhiking.

Have you ever?  Or have you ever picked up a hitchhiker?

I have done both.  Lived to tell about it.

Yes, both. We lived near I-80 when the mass hippie migration made it's way to Boulder Colorado in the late 60's early 70's, a lot of them hitching and panhandeling. Certainly an eye opening experience of my youth.

I stopped in the late 70's. It was basically a high school/college related thing that I out grew.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I’ve hitched throughout the UK and large parts of Western Europe. Never an issue. I used pick up, but haven’t for years - it just doesn’t seem as common as it once was.

I once picked up a woman and her toddler in Lisburn, NI. She asked if I was heading to Newry, about a 45 minute drive. On the way, she said she was leaving her abusive husband and trying to get back to her mum in Wexford, but thought she could get another lift in Newry, which was close to the border. So I drove her to Wexford, about 4 hours away.

I still wonder how things worked out for her.

Boru

[Fireball]

Both, not since the '70s. All uneventful.

[Rev. Rye]

I never have. Then again, I live in Illinois, which has a particularly strict interpetrtation of the law “No person shall stand in a roadway for a purpose of soliciting a ride”

https://www.gohitchhiking.com/is-hitchhi..._article=1

[no one]

I was guided across the galaxy once. Maybe twice.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Waiting for a friend to return to the States. Hanging out at my sister's house in Indiana. Friend called to say he'd be delayed two weeks. Cool. Find something to do. Never been to Frisco. Hitchhiked out to Cali and back. That killed one week.