Category Archives: hitchhiking

Napa Redux

April 23, 2013 – 8:32 pm

In the summer 1971 my friend Peter and I hitchhiked across the Golden Gate Park up into Napa. We stopped at a winery. A keg of red was shaded by an oak tree. Tin cups lay on a battered wooden table.The midday sun was strong. Peter and I drank our fill and some more before [...]

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From The North

August 29, 2012 – 10:28 am

In October of 1995 I hitchhiked out of Tibet to Nepal. I stood at the edge of Shigaske, the last town before the border. Most of the traffic was trucks loaded to capacity. A van stopped on the dirt road. It was heading to pick up tourists. The driver wanted $10. I gave him a [...]

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HOLD ON IT’S COMING Country Joe and the Fish

August 20, 2012 – 1:42 pm

Some sounds are so 60s. To listen to HOLD ON IT’S COMING by Country JOe and The Fish, please go to the following URL

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Hitchhiking Prohibited

August 20, 2012 – 12:32 pm

The weather along Montana’s Continental Divide shifted from summer to fall to winter in late-August of 1972. My friend Ptrov and I were Boston bound and we crashed a night with a band of carpenter gypsies at a rest stop under construction . Bulldozers had churned the dirt highway into a muddy bog for the [...]

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George, Washington 1972

August 19, 2012 – 6:08 pm

Back in late August 1972 my college friend Ptrov Sinski and I were hitchhiking west from Seattle to Boston. We were left off at exit 149. George, Washington was a small farming community surrounded by large fields of ripening wheat. The two of us ignored the sign forbidding hitchhiking, but within ten minutes a Highway [...]

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