![]() ![]() Maybe someday, could it come to pass that hitchhiking could once again be a safe and acceptable form of traveling and getting to know our fellow humans? ![]() To celebrate, the National Today organization encourages folks to hitchhike to work, to feel what it’s like, and/or to offer a ride to a stranger - all with the utmost caution. In 2020, an online movement established July as National Hitchhiking Month. Nowadays, ridesharing like Uber and Lyft are accepted forms of transportation, and maybe not that different from hitchhiking. The practice fell out of favor in the 1980s as people became more individualistic and less tolerant of the hippie style of cooperating and getting along - and, yes, more suspicious of the motivations of people looking for a free ride.Īuthor Jack Reid traced the rise and fall of hitchhiking in his 2020 book Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation, from which the previous observations were taken. Similarly, during and after World War II, when soldiers stuck out a thumb to get across the country and to their homes, drivers were proud to help. Once upon a time (like back when not everyone owned a car), hitchhiking was not uncommon, and drivers tended to offer a lift to be neighborly to a stranger.
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