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Posted on 8/26/24 at 1:49 pm to MeridianDog
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or get in the car with a stranger.
We pay to do this with Uber and Lyft.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 2:11 pm to Flashback
gf and I did a hike in Mt. Rainier NP about a year ago. The trail ended at another parking lot, and we didn't feel like walking back, so we bummed a ride from a young couple that was in the parking lot and were headed back to the parking lot we were parked at.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 2:14 pm to Flashback
My BIL was murdered hitch hiking, so no, I don't.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 2:33 pm to Slingscode
Not hitchhiked but did pick someone up...Traveling for work with a buddy in Calgary Canada and he stopped to pick up some chick on the interstate while we were headed to the mountains while we had some down time. I was against it at first, but she was really cool and proceeded to pull out the best weed I've ever smoked. That was on Sunday Sept 10, 2001. Our 5-day trip turned into 16 days after that.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 2:46 pm to Funky Tide 8
I have a similar story. Friend and I went on a poorly marked hike in Glacier NP not too long before sunset. We ended up making a wrong turn and figured it was better to stay at the road instead of trying to backtrack in darkness. Hitched a ride in the back of a baw’s Tundra to our car.
This post was edited on 8/26/24 at 10:48 pm
Posted on 8/26/24 at 2:55 pm to MaxxPain2
Yep, have done both. Picked up a guy in Gadson headed to Mobile, just got out of county jail, bar fist fight. He said he lost everything, his job, car, girl, bank account. He recognized me two years later at the pink pony pub, in Gulf Shores, and bought me drinks all night. He had a flirty girlfriend. 
This post was edited on 8/26/24 at 2:57 pm
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:00 pm to Flashback
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:04 pm to Flashback
I hitchhiked while in college and have seen people I knew blow past me with my La Tech suitcase on the ground.
Knowing how it feels to have to thumb a ride, I've picked up travelers before but not in the past 30 years, but there was a .38 special under my left leg.
Knowing how it feels to have to thumb a ride, I've picked up travelers before but not in the past 30 years, but there was a .38 special under my left leg.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:08 pm to Flashback
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so common after WW2
My PaPa hitch hiked from San Francisco to Baton Rouge when he was done in the Navy. A friends parents who were picking up their son took him to as far as Arizona where they lived. From there he was lucky enough to have a young couple take him all the way to Shreveport. His dad met them in Shreveport and brought him down to Baton Rouge.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:10 pm to Flashback
Three of us hitchhiked from Lafayette To NOLA to see the Allman Brothers. We crashed at a friends house before hiking back the next day.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:11 pm to Flashback
No but that is how my dad went back and forth to college. Hitchhiked from port barre to USL back in the 50s. He didn’t get a drivers license until he finished medical school
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:12 pm to Flashback
In the 1960s, I often hitchhike from LSU to Bogalusa and back on the weekends.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:13 pm to MSTiger33
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He didn’t get a drivers license until he finished medical school
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port barre
smart move, that's a notorious speed trap
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:14 pm to RedFoxx
I hitchhiked to 'Sewanee one Friday to see a friend who was a student. Had no problems getting a ride until I got to Section, Alahama on top of Sand Mountain.
No car would stop and after four hours I started walking down the mountain. Around 2;00 am a truck stopped and I got in. Told the driver thanks I hand never had such bad luck getting a ride.
He said ever since that hitch hiker killed a fellow people would not stop. He asked me if I was the killer and showed me a pistol I assured hims I was not and that
started him talking football.
No car would stop and after four hours I started walking down the mountain. Around 2;00 am a truck stopped and I got in. Told the driver thanks I hand never had such bad luck getting a ride.
He said ever since that hitch hiker killed a fellow people would not stop. He asked me if I was the killer and showed me a pistol I assured hims I was not and that
started him talking football.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:14 pm to Flashback
Once in high school. Me and a buddy were drunk and went mud riding in his dad's Tacoma and got the damn thing stuck in the woods at like 3am
The guy that picked us up was a weirdo. We were making plans on how we were going to take him if needed but he just dropped us off. Thankfully it was only 3-4 miles from home.
The guy that picked us up was a weirdo. We were making plans on how we were going to take him if needed but he just dropped us off. Thankfully it was only 3-4 miles from home.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:17 pm to Flashback
I've done it a bunch for outdoor pursuits, but always in areas where that's fairly common. Getting a ride back to my car after backpacking, hitching back to the top of the pass while skiing, etc.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:20 pm to Flashback
In Jr. High, used to hitch hike around Quantico MCB in Virginia (big Marine base). It was almost always a bunch of young, black Marines giving us a ride.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:31 pm to Flashback
Growing up I’ve hitchhiked a few times always when it was cold outside.
I hitchhiked once when it during the Summer months. My buddy and I were 19 going to PCB.
His mustang started smoking around Calera, Alabama.
We got picked up by this old weird guy in a hauler truck. We had to ride on the back. We just wanted a ride to the next exit so we could use a pay phone. Well he passes the exit, then the next and next. So we try to get his attention. Nope… he doesn’t stop until we pass the Florida state line.
As he entering some backwoods town we jump off and run when he slows down enough.
He doesn’t stop or anything and to this day I think he really forgot we was back there.
After a lot crap we finally made it back to his car and to PCB .
I hitchhiked once when it during the Summer months. My buddy and I were 19 going to PCB.
His mustang started smoking around Calera, Alabama.
We got picked up by this old weird guy in a hauler truck. We had to ride on the back. We just wanted a ride to the next exit so we could use a pay phone. Well he passes the exit, then the next and next. So we try to get his attention. Nope… he doesn’t stop until we pass the Florida state line.
As he entering some backwoods town we jump off and run when he slows down enough.
He doesn’t stop or anything and to this day I think he really forgot we was back there.
After a lot crap we finally made it back to his car and to PCB .
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:34 pm to Flashback
I was in a small coastal town called Hermanus in South Africa. And everyone hitchhikes there. In fact you get weird looks if you don’t pick em up.
I did pick up a hiker on the way back down from a hike my dad uncle and I had did in northern cascades national park but that was just back down to the main road. Not sure if that counts.
I did pick up a hiker on the way back down from a hike my dad uncle and I had did in northern cascades national park but that was just back down to the main road. Not sure if that counts.
This post was edited on 8/26/24 at 3:37 pm
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