casekonly Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 summer is almost here, and i'm thinking about hitching across the country. i've never done it, and i'm looking for advice, stories, smart things to pack, and maybe some good books on the subject. maybe some interesting stories, suggestions, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadawhat Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 read the unwritten guide to hitchhiking and know what the driver expects!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted April 12, 2003 Author Share Posted April 12, 2003 that's just a little fucked up...i take that back, it's alot fucked up. i think i'll just walk or take a bus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadawhat Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 start doing thumb exercises now to avoid a 'breakdown' in the middle of the U.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallix Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 i thought about doing the same thing, but after a little more thinking i decided NAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted April 12, 2003 Author Share Posted April 12, 2003 you guys aren't in a helpful or insightful mood today, are you? lazy bastards...ha ha, my personal favorite quote of the day: start doing thumb exercises now to avoid a 'breakdown' in the middle of the U.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welcome mat Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 read "the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy". it's a great book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest willy.wonka Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 i would keep my money in a wierd spot..like a extra pocket inside the pant leg by the knee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinyl junkie Posted April 13, 2003 Share Posted April 13, 2003 Originally posted by casekonly i'm looking for advice, stories, smart things to pack don't bring much... the less shit you have the better... and look nice and smile... and if you smoke herb expect to be very very high most of the time (i don't smoke, but i think i could count the number of times i've not been offered pot by the driver on both hands...) have fun! *edit* i've always kept a knife in my boot that's easily accessible whenever i hitch hike, although i've never needed it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar Posted April 13, 2003 Share Posted April 13, 2003 Hitched all over the U.S., Canada and Mexico About twenty-five years ago. Today things are a lot less cool. Obviously, the more like an innocuous college kid you appear to be, the easier it will be to catch a ride. All the rules in "The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" are probably appropriate and timely. I never obeyed many of them--one of the most memorable rides my hitch-hiking, trainhopping girlfriend and I ever caught was up in Saskatchewan. We had a little brown, short-haired terrier cross bitch we picked up in L.A. that we named "Pat Nixon" ("Pat" for short) and while we were visiting the IWW delegate in Mountain Home, CA, she came into heat. His neighbor's Husky jumped the fence and they had a grand old time. She got pregnant, of course. Weeks later, up in Saskatchewan, while we were trying to thumb down a ride east, a big thunderstorm came out of the north. The clouds were black as paint, and there was lightning and thunder and high winds coming at us from the northwest. Pat went berserk and started frantically digging and pulling up grass with her teeth, and made a hole in the ground next to the highway, and got in it. I thought it was the storm---maybe there was big hazard from lightning. It sort of freaked us out. A station wagon stopped to pick us up. Two hitch hikers, a ton of gear, packs, sleeping bags, etc., plus a dog--we were lucky. We got in. I got in the passenger seat. The back seat was "down" to create a cargo space, and our benefactor was a minister en route back home from a church conference. My girl got in the back with all our packs and stuff, and the dog. Immediately, Pat began birthing a litter of puppies. My girl, thinking fast, pulled a poncho out of the packs and put it under Pat. She had eight pups, in about 45 minutes. The driver was very excited, and kept asking "How many now? How many now?" It was really a trip. We stopped and dumpster-dived a cardboard box, and sacrificed our worst blanket for a puppy bed. Pat licked all the pups clean as a whistle and ate the afterbirth. I have no idea where she learned all this---instinct, I suppose. We gave the puppies away as they got old enough, most of them at the IWW Convention in Chicago that September. We had a box marked "Free Puppies---Trained in Class Warfare." They went quickly. The minister was a great guy, and gave us a ride all the way to Thunder Bay, where we had to hitch around Lake Superior to Sault Ste. Marie, then down towards Detroit, then to Ann Arbor, MI, and on west to Chicago. We stayed with some anti-war activist Quakers in Ann Arbor---really wonderful, generous people. We also stayed a few days with some stoner kids in rural Michigan who lived in a home-built shack out behind their parents' house. They kept us stoned the whole time we were there. So much for 1972. It was a good year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 thanks for the story, kabar, and thanks for the advice vinyl junkie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 ride freights instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 can't, i broke my leg a couple of year sback and i still have two rods in it...i wish i could..i can barely jump and land on it and it not hurt...so, that's out of the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 get a small folding stepladder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 good idea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabled Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 Why hitchhike? Why don't you save up a little bit of money and get your broke ass a car....that or ride the rails Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 the adventure, man...the adventure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLIK$ Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 to bad you wont be able to post and tell us how it was when that trucker picked you up raped your asshole into blown o-ring and the stabbed you in the head and ate your face off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 yeah, too bad, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLIK$ Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 whoaaaaoooooohhhhahhhhhhhoooooooahhhhhhhhoooooooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 i was joking. i don't plan on riding in a truck. trucks scare me. truckers scare me more. i dunno, maybe i'll take a greyhound halfway across the country and then hitch to califronia, then turn around and try to make my way back. i think i'll carry a gun, though...just in case GlikO is right about the anal raping and face eating..i'm not down for any of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAustin Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 bike it man. I know some girls in San Fran that biked it out to the midwest and back. if they can do it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 that's an interestng idea, steve, i didn't think of that..hmm...i wouldn't need to get a ride form anyone...hmm..wait, what about biking on highways? would i have to take rural routes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Rage- Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 http://www.fast-rewind.com/creepshow2.jpg'> "Thanks for the ride lady!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 ahhh, creepshow...i liked the thing on the airplane wing more .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAustin Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 I would. Suckas driving cars have a hard enough time not running into cars on the side of the road. Besides scenery is way better. George Nellis Jr. rode one of those high wheeled Columbia bikes across the US in the late 1800's. New York to San Fran in 72 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Rage- Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 Originally posted by casekonly ahhh, creepshow...i liked the thing on the airplane wing more .... http://www.thetzsite.com/images/movie/feet11.jpg'> This was Twilight Zone the movie though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 my bad. yeah, the guyu who grew grass all over his body, house, etc...that wascreepshow...and the people buried up to their necks in sand...i had the comic book...glossy cover...i wonder if it's worth anything... steve, i'll check around on yahoo maps or soemthing and find some rural route maps...thanks, again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordo Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 You still gotta watch out for reg. looking people too. I saw something on A&E a while back where this chick was picked up by a couple. Once she got in the car, they pulled out a gun on here and took her back to their pad. She was kept there for over 4 years as a sex slave. So pack a gun if you have one or at least a knife. And have a large amount of cash stored in a bank so if anything pops up, you can get yourself where you need to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 yeah, good idea. does anyone know what the gun laws are like if you pack heat and cross state lines? what about if i had a concealed weapon license for one state and crossed state lines and was picked up or harassed by 5-0? maybe a knife and some pepper spray would be better...or a couple of knives...one hidden, and one really well hidden...both on my person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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