Hitchhiking is one of the most fun and cheapest ways of travelling. Hitchhiking refers to a means of transportation attained by asking a ride from strangers. A ride is generally free, but in some ...

Long dismissed as dangerous, hitchhiking is being rediscovered by a new generation of travellers seeking connection, adventure and a low-carbon way to see the world. In 2022, travellers Alexandra Menz ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Most summers since I was 17, I’ve gone hitchhiking. In California, at 19, I rode with a stuntman who estimated he’d sustained 50 concussions. A few years later, ...

It's rare to see a hitchhiker on the side of an Australian road these days. It's also against the law in Queensland and Victoria, and illegal to hitchhike on motorways in other parts of the country.

While most Americans today can’t fathom the thought of hitchhiking, people used to dress up during the Great Depression and World War II to stick out their thumbs on the side of the road. In his book ...

In the summer of 1970, Joyce McKenny's friend asked if she wanted to hitchhike to Maine. They were on Route 1 when a handsome man driving a '57 Dodge pickup pulled over and offered them a ride.

When's the last time you saw someone on the side of the road, thumb hoisted in the air, waiting for a ride from a stranger? The practice of hitchhiking has significantly declined since its heyday in ...

Peter Shawn Taylor explains the rise and fall of the golden—and federally funded—age of hitchhiking Along with the rest of the country, you probably fell in love with hitchBOT, the world’s first ...