ever since i saw that video on vice i've been wanting to hitchhike so badly
it really does seem fun if i die fuck it
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[sp]but he ends up starving to death in alaska because he didn't take a compass/read his map which could have easily led him back to civilisation. that was a silly move.[/sp][/QUOTE]
which is why we learn from that, it's helpful to know
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[sp]but he ends up starving to death in alaska because he didn't take a compass/read his map which could have easily led him back to civilisation. that was a silly move.[/sp][/QUOTE]
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[sp] I thought he had an outdated book on potatoes and ate a poisonous one?[/sp]
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[sp] I thought he had an outdated book on potatoes and ate a poisonous one?[/sp][/QUOTE]
that's just the film version, in real life it happened ^
[QUOTE=D3TBS;37343578]only in a few states iirc[/QUOTE]
I hitchhiked for 2 miles in a car.
It was so I get home on time.
I've picked up a few hitchhikers in the last couple of years. They were all decent festival-goer-types, burdened down with rucksacks, mud, and guitars covered in stickers (and mud).
I met one guy in a burger king at a terrible service station near Birmingham. He was eating a whopper like it was the last food he expected to get for a week, with the traditional cardboard-box-panel-with-marker-pen sign on the table in front of him. He'd made it all the way down from Edinburgh alive and had been stuck at this place for the last 3 hours, until I showed up. Turns out we lived about 5 miles apart.
So we drove home, singing along with The Who and T-Rex, discussing the shithole that is Bristol, eating Werther's originals and making up stories about people in other cars. The stupid thing is that we somehow forgot to swap contact details, so we haven't met up since. It may just be that he was playing along throughout the journey and was so relived when I let him go, that just legged it as fast as he could.
I like to think he has a story about a crazy guy who saved him from the boring clutches of Birmingham and gave him sweets.
I think hitch hiking is rarer in the UK for three reasons:
1. Most places are pretty close together, so generally more safer options are available.
2. The UK is generally a place people go [i]from[/i] not [i]to[/i]. The continent is more interesting and it's quite hard to hitch-hike across/under the channel.
3. Nobody trusts anybody here. In our minds every hitch-hiker is a car-jacker and every ride-giver is a serial killer.
Look at my avatar, does that look like a face that would rape you in a ditch, leave you for dead and sell your belongings on ebay?
[sp]Second hand camping gear sells OK, but the kidneys are where the money is. Hippie guitars make good trophies, as they are usually personalised.[/sp]
Have you seen "The Hitcher" with Sean Bean? Basically, dont hitch yo!
But seriously, i wouldnt hitchhike or pick up a hitchhiker because i wouldnt trust em. But its not like every hitchhiker or pickerupper is a bad person right. Hope it all goes swell
Picked up loads of hitch hikers, had a few live with me(Because they where really kind and girls) and hitchhiked a few times myself too- Awesome means of travel
I've always had a major travel bug. When I was in the army, stuck in Arizona, I fantasized about packing up my bike and riding to California, to find some kindly old dude with a fishing boat. I'd live there, fishing, for a few years, and eventually hop a sailboat headed across the ocean, to the Japanese islands. I didn't do that, though. I came home and started studying engineering. Not quite as exciting, somehow.
Hitchhiking is my main way to travel around, because bus tickets are very expensive. I usually hitchhike twice in a week to travel 70km in one go.
The only problem is food. In the right places you can often find some work for food and a bed, ask around on farms.
Also, try camping and walking. I went for a walk with my tent and backpack one day, with the intention of staying a night in the country. Came back 212 miles and 12 days later. It was awesome.
[QUOTE=Scotchair;37431272]The only problem is food. In the right places you can often find some work for food and a bed, ask around on farms.
Also, try camping and walking. I went for a walk with my tent and backpack one day, with the intention of staying a night in the country. Came back 212 miles and 12 days later. It was awesome.[/QUOTE]
Woah, cool. I wanna do that. What did you do for food during that time, and where did you go? I live on a trail that runs a few hundred miles, through woods and stuff. I'd love to try something like that one day.
I bought food like a chump! Haha, there's not much in the way of farm labour in the Scottish highlands.
Best thing to do is just go for it, just make sure you take a cell phone and some spare cash in case of emergency.
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