I know it sounds strange, especially these days, but I've been hitchhiking across America. I like the older world feel it gives me, traveling in a way that trusts strangers for a ride in their automobile. Makes me feel like I'm time traveling back when there wasn't as much technology, for some reason.
Isn't hitchhiking unsafe nowadays?
It can be.. all you're doing is standing by the road and using hand signals to flag down drivers in order to ask for a free ride. So, you never know who you'll interact with. But for some people, that mode of transportation is all that's available to them.
That is true. I'm sure there has to be a better way though. I mean you have to deal with cars and people but also the weather.
who usually sought to travel long distances, distances too far to walk in a reasonable amount of time—was that the driver's destinations were located nearby—and of little use to the hitchhiker—by pointing at the ground for a few seconds.
Legal status.
Hitchhiking is a historically common (autonomous) practice worldwide and hence there are very few places in the world where laws exist to restrict it. However, a minority of countries have laws that restrict hitchhiking at certain locations. In the United States,
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