#Hitch-hiking

[federer7]

Hitch-hiking from Joplin, Missouri, to a sawmill job in Arizona. On U.S. 66 near Weatherford, western Oklahoma. August 12, 1938

Photo: Dorothea Lange

[jomolieres]

Hitch-hiking to Africa

In 1971 I was a coach driver working on European tours. In those days there was so little work through the winter that most drivers were laid off from November to March, so this was an ideal opportunity for me to drive across the Sahara Desert to visit my brother who was working in West Africa at the time.

I had talked about the project on and off through the summer with my pal Martin, so when the last trip of the season, to Greece in late October, came to an end we invested £350 each in a second-hand Land-Rover, persuaded a couple of other interested people, Dee and Arnie, to to come along and share expenses, and after the organisation of such essentials as maps, jerrycans and spare wheels we eventually set off for Dover a couple of weeks before Christmas.

The ferry was fairly empty. Arnie was a gregarious American and while three of us studied maps of France and Spain in the bar he wandered off to see who else he could find to talk to. After about twenty minutes he reappeared with a rather scruffy-looking backpacker and announced that this was Jim from Long Beach California, and that Jim wanted to come with us. So we talked to this young man, and liked him, and offered him a ride to Africa. He had no real plan of where in Africa he wanted to visit and when I said our destination was Ghana he seemed to like the idea.

A couple of weeks later we were in Algiers waiting for visas for Niger, Dahomey and Togo. Arnie wandered off to have a look around and this time came back with another American backpacker, Pat, who also wanted to come with us. Pat seemed like a nice guy so we took him on board too and the six of us eventually set off for the south.

Halfway across the Sahara when we had reached the town of Tamanrasset in Southern Algeria Arnie decided that there were now far too many of us and he wasn't so keen on our group after all, so we parted company. He was last seen sitting cross-legged atop a local truck setting off in another direction entirely.

We eventually said goodbye to Jim in Accra, Ghana, a month after we met him on the boat to Calais, some 5400 miles down the road. Is this some sort of hitch-hiking record?

[boanerges20]

Motolove

[vintagecamping]

Three young ladies hitchhiking on Highway 1 in Big Sur.

 California

1971

[violetlunette]

The Quest for Silver (aka Master post of dumb Yuu trying to get a date)

Falling for/Over Silver

Lilia meets Yuu

Yuu wants a Date

Focus and wait for the Truck

Asserting Dominance

Killing Fashion

Rook's Advice

7x13 is 28

Gathering Intel

Yuu asks Silver

Warranty

The Optimist

First Date

Don't wake Yuu at Shit-it's-early-time

Throw a "t" at it

Satan and his Pretty face

Incubus?

Rumpelstiltskin?

Moronsexual

Trademark

Horse taming 101 by Yuu

Not all there

Make 'em men

Motivation

Twinkerbell

Moonshine

Buff Apple

Tux

Dog-Chick

The secret to Love

Batman

Lie

Body Language

How Low Can he go?

He Never Knew when to Quit

Yuu's bad luck while traveling

Operate

Handing over Ramshackle Dorm

Fooled Again

Rose Thief

Rosecanon

Down the Rabbit Hole

A Rival has Appeared

Another Rival Appears

Yuus and Lilia

Leona the Landing pad

Dragon Tracking

Untrustworthy

Voice of reason

Mask removal

Swim for Silver

Idiots

Bathroom

Sand Silver

Resemblance

Beanfest

Spooky Scary Skeletons

Humerous

[fitbearcatcher]

Big beautiful hitch hiking hunk with small package

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Hitch-Hike (1977)

[houseofmouselove100]

Pete began to clean the floors Cinderella style and more with Lady Tremaine watching

Mike the Microphone mentioned to the band of villains what they were going to be

Then Mickey says goodbye to the audience

[lithiumandsushi]

[salamifuposey]

ready for hitch hikes now 🚗

not a entirely new concept, i guess i just wanted to try giving Phantom legs like everybody else saFNDLSKFNG

how do yall draw your Phantoms so smexy

[undergroundrockpress]

Regina Carrol / Angel's Wild Women (1972)

[gameraboy2]

Hitch-Hike Hussy by John B. Thompson and Jack Woodford Beacon Books B213, 1959 Cover by Saul Levine

[fuzzyghost]

[vintagecamping]

"Driver, help a child!"

1970 photo taken by a roadside in Poland, during a hiking boom. Hiking was highly encouraged and popularized, with competitions, awards and millions of "Hiker Passports" issued to hikers.

[men-tailored-creator-3]

Excellent reward...

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[fitbearcatcher]

Hitch hiker fur