Article: Does Anyone Still Hitchhike

[MetalBryan]

I don't have an Atlantic subscription but maybe you do?

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/04/hitchhiking-american-experience/682603/

 

[Spazz]

Great article; tfs.

You should be able to read it on Firefox with javascript disabled. I have the noscript browser extension and didn't enable anything.

Somebody who isn't me might know how to put it on archive.is or a similar site without getting us in trouble.

I only hitch hiked for a year, in 1981ish, but it profoundly changed me from a reject [alliterative and incorrect ableist slur removed] special ed case into a human being.

I continued to hitchhike periodically in order to visit friends and learn about new places.

I guess I stopped when I had kids and stopped picking up hitch hikers when gamergate and 4chan-style misogyny became a thing.