I don't know if it's more dangerous now but somehow it's just not as fun as it used to be. California's gotten so yuppied out, even in the stix, that anybody who looks poor scares ppl. 10 years ago when you walked into a town off the road with all your gear you were a novelty. People wanted to know where you'd been, where you were going, if you needed a cpl days work, etc. Now there are so many homeless people everywhere you go that when you walk into town with a backpack, as soon as you step off the highway you're not a hitch-hiker anymore, you're just one more homeless bum with a backpack roaming their streets.
Nathan my man, weed & hasj are legal everywhere in the country. but you are only allowed to have 5 grams and you must be 18 to buy it. offical you must smoke at home or in the shop/cafe, but you won't have any problems if you smoke it on the street. ( however watch out for the blueguys) they can take all your drugs if you smoke at street. or dismiss you from school if you get caught with smoking at school. Anyway about the hitchhikerthing, it is legal just everywhere in the vs? here in the netherlands we have special places where you can hitchhike, other places are not really allowed. (kinda stupid ey?) but that doesn't say we are not doing it Must sleep now, luck & peace to all of you!
In California not on the freeways.In Arizona not on the main highways(the cops pointed me to the train tracks)In Vegas they told me to get on the freeway.Not at all in Colorado.Can't say for other areas.
I do a lot of hitchhiking... mostly around Poland where I live and mostly I get to the place i wanna.. but sometimes I have to spend a night besides the road, in a sleeping bag or wahtever. This year I hitchhiked from the the Netherlands back to Poland and it took me 2 days.. (the first part of my road was from Amsterdam to Enschede, too ) As far as I can tell in Europe it's vey close to safe... not compeletly, cause not so long ago one hitchiker killed a couple who gave him a lift... and escaped in their car;/ It happened nt so far from the place I live but that doesn't stop people from taking me
I just love hitchhiking...like Sotar mostly in Poland where I live but not only...this summer I was in Czech Republic,in Germany,in Austria and Slovakia by autostop and was absolutely amazing adventure with sleeping in parks and in strange places Next year I want to go down,down to the Italy and maybe across the sea (hitchhike ship?? ) go to Greece...
Cool plans Angel, but I've heard that it's very hard to hitchhike through Italy, because it's compeletly illegal there (sounds unbeliveable and the source of information wasn't 100% sure as I recall) but these countries are beautiful. As for me I'm planning to go to India next year... not by plane, me and my friends want to take the land route. Anyways, the first idea was to hitchhike but we've heard that it's the better and ... cheaper idea to travel by public means of transport starting from Turkey. The current idea is to buy oursleves an old bus, redesign it to make it also a place to live, leave some seats and go by our hippiebus far far east.. But we aren't sure if any of us will make the correct driving licence on time... There's also the problem of driving through Pakistan... could be not so safe, heh.
I pick them up all the time here in Nova Scotia. I once picked up a reformed skinhead (his words) who showed me all of his nazi tatoos, some that were in the process of being tattooed over. His hair had grown long and he showed me pictures of his wife and kids. His wife was Puerto Rican. He said he just got tired of hating, but paid a price as now his white supremacist family has disowned him and refuse to see his wife and children as part of the family. He said that's ok, I know who I am. I pick up a lot of university students too, as they travel the corridor from Antigonish to Halifax for concerts and parties. When I lived in Ontario though, I rarely saw hitchhikers...and don't know that I would have picked them up as easily. I just like meeting new people and love the company for the long drives I do. The last time I hitched was in Ireland a couple of years ago. Me and another backpacker hitched from Kilkenny towards Waterford to check out a small town where my sister-in-law thought her roots were from. One of my dreams has always been to hitch across the country, just going wherever your thumb takes you, from adventure to adventure.
I live in Waterford...I hope someone nice picked ye up I'm reading Jack Kerouac's On The Road at the moment, which is a hitchhiking story.
I've hitched all over the US and love it it's the best way to get around but its hard to get picked up if you dont have a girl with you go figure. I'll prob be hitch'n again soon if my friend dont have a ride.
yes, Luke (crazy horse), someone nice did pick me up...a businessman on the way south and a lorry driver on the return ride. I wished I had done more hitching but it was my first trip abroad, and I was still on the nervous side. You're certainly right about the gender difference benny...my daughter never has troubles getting rides (back when she lived at home) to work, but her boyfriend would take much longer to get a ride. To prove the point, they tried hitching together and were picked up in minutes. Sometimes he had to wait 2-3 hours to get a ride, if at all. She never had to wait any longer than 10 minutes....go figure! But then she is small, just 5'2, not intimidating looking at all, and he is 6', tattooed and pierced, likely in his work clothes. I expect I'll continue to pick up hitchers for many years to come and hope that I have the opportunity to hitch again in my lifetime. You can learn so much from others that way, I find.
Haha. Good idea, man. That's really cool that you, your daughter, and her boyfriend all hitch hike... It sure is a life-style, man.
IIt would be nice to get some people together to hitch ya know start a family inside the the famiily a tight worked brotherhood.
Women can often be easily picked up I'm sure, but often it might be for all the wrong reasons. A person in my family had a bad experience hitchhiking a few years back. And HE was only looking for a ride home from work, in the local area. So theres always a risk anywhere you go.
