HITCHKING FOR FUN AND PROFIT

To answer the question, "why?" is because it was a different world back then; and because I was very naivè adventurous.

The first time I hitchhiked I was 18 and ended up traveling all over the southeast for a couple of years. Once my friend and I (we both had cars) were thumbing and decided to "spare change" everyone we got a ride with. Bright idea so we thought except when we got to our destination we were still broke. My friend was keeping the money in her jeans. The ones that had a hole in the back pocket. We got to Nashville late at night. We didn't know one single person, we were broke, cold and hungry and we didn't see any freaks hanging out at 3am to help a fellow traveller out so we ended up going to jail for loitering.

Some areas would arrest you for hitchhiking, but you usually didn't wait long at all so the cops never got a chance to see you. I always thumbed with somebody and never went alone. Phil B and I hitchhiked to the Atlanta Pop festival at Piedmont Park and so were blasted by the time we got there that we missed a lot of the good stuff. If you were traveling in the early 70s,especially to a concert, those highways were full of fellow "travelers" who were stocked with a good supply of weed and music.

I picked up most every roadside hippie (i always hated that word) I saw back then. You could I still mull it over for a nanosecond when I see someone thumbing and my husband still picks up people in distress.

After all he is the original Zig Zag man.

HITCHKING FOR FUN AND PROFIT