Cody Smart hitchhiked across America and took some amazing photographs.
http://www.codysmart.com/hitchhike/index2.html
Unfortunately all his gear was stolen in New Orleans.
Well, it’s different …
djm
Loved it, some superb shots and a great story. Shame about the camera gear, guess he still had memory cards so he could post up the pics.
oh my
It’s stories like these that make me wish I was born a man.
I worked all the time and just generally let life accelerate past. I couldn’t remember the last time I had felt anything. I was never excited, or scared, or hungry, and I was completely bored.
I was born a nomad deep inside my genes but have not ever lived that way, except for very brief little stints as a wilderness backpacker. I’m jealous.
sbfluter, please keep your genes on, and dwest, frankly, Scallop, I don’t give a clam.
djm
This will show my age, but I hitchhiked across the country several times, back in the early 70’s, sometimes alone, sometimes with other hitchers that I met along the way.
I love America.
Good times.
That was a different day and age though, that’s for sure.
I wouldn’t recommend it now for anyone.
Great pics and story, thanks Eddie
M
Now Mary, don’t give young girls any ideas. I’m sure your mother would have had a fit if she knew what you were doing. It wasn’t safe for a single woman to hitchhike in the 70’s, and it certainly isn’t now. Like you, I hitchhiked back and forth to college and across the country in the 60’s. I got into some difficult situations with drunk drivers and people who wanted money. I remember I got out of a car at a gas station in Colorada, went into the cafe, and wouldn’t return to the car until the couple that had picked me up had finally left. Let’s just say that I had a bad feeling about what was about to happen. I finally made it to Colorado Springs by morning. Pike’s Peak sure looked beautiful in the distance.
I hitchiked back in high school with my sister. We got picked up by her volley ball coach. He gave us a stern lecture about the evils of hitchiking. We had already seen enough to know it was probably wrong, but we were teenagers ya know? Anyway, I don’t think we ever did it again.
I’m not so much interested in the hitchiking as the adventure of travel. My dreams are more along the line of World travel, riding a bicycle across the US, hiking the Pacific Crest Trail or something like that. I’d love to trek in Nepal again. I did that once and really loved it. When I’m doing something like that, all feels right in the universe. When I’m stuck in a cubicle all day, I feel like I’m in prison. I hate it.
Cubicles pay better.
djm
yeah, they do…
they’re not in tune though 
Eddie…that was amazing..thanks for posting it.