Originally Posted by Roody

I hitchhiked a lot in my youth--across this country and Canada a couple times, a few months in Europe, and around my local Detroit area almost every day. All this travel was before I turned 18 in 1973.

My last trip was from Detroit to NYC in about 1978. I went with a female friend and we got good rides, mostly from truck drivers. I came home alone. I was stuck by the turnpike in the New Jersey suburbs for two days with no ride--in January with sub-zero temperatures at night....