With Apologies To Roger Waters...
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
...The Pros and Cons of Hitchiking.
Pro's
1)You get to see a great deal of your country without having to bother with all the trivial aspects of automobile--gas, insurance, maintainence, parking, etc.
2)It is a great opportunity to see many new and interesting things outside the square box of suburban, middle class life.
3)The people you meet are surprisingly friendly, and very free with stories of the open road--with the expected and the unexpected intertwined.
Con's
1)State Police. The have a job to do, and will not hesitate to do it.
2)Rain
3)Robbery
4)Uncertian sleepy conditions
5)Very few opportunites to bathe.
6)Sore feet
There you have it. Laid out like that, it doesn't look like much. And on a certian level of "seen this, did that" it isn't. Much, that is.
But when you read between the lines, and actually take to the open road with a few dollars in your pocket and the expectation of adventure firmly clenched in you teeth, there is so much more.
First of all lets examine the first pro involved with hitchhiking. There is probably alot of your home country that you haven't seen, and will never see should you live 100 years. Take my home country for instance. There is so much tucked away in the here and there of America, that it would take a 10 year holiday to see it all--once. True alot of it is very repetative, even when seen from the road. But just when you least expect it, something new pops up and grabs your attention. Like the example of road signage. Interstate signs, and even state highway signs are pretty similar.
Pro's
1)You get to see a great deal of your country without having to bother with all the trivial aspects of automobile--gas, insurance, maintainence, parking, etc.
2)It is a great opportunity to see many new and interesting things outside the square box of suburban, middle class life.
3)The people you meet are surprisingly friendly, and very free with stories of the open road--with the expected and the unexpected intertwined.
Con's
1)State Police. The have a job to do, and will not hesitate to do it.
2)Rain
3)Robbery
4)Uncertian sleepy conditions
5)Very few opportunites to bathe.
6)Sore feet
There you have it. Laid out like that, it doesn't look like much. And on a certian level of "seen this, did that" it isn't. Much, that is.
But when you read between the lines, and actually take to the open road with a few dollars in your pocket and the expectation of adventure firmly clenched in you teeth, there is so much more.
First of all lets examine the first pro involved with hitchhiking. There is probably alot of your home country that you haven't seen, and will never see should you live 100 years. Take my home country for instance. There is so much tucked away in the here and there of America, that it would take a 10 year holiday to see it all--once. True alot of it is very repetative, even when seen from the road. But just when you least expect it, something new pops up and grabs your attention. Like the example of road signage. Interstate signs, and even state highway signs are pretty similar.
