Even when I would want to, I don't dare to pick up strangers who are hitchhiking.
Me neither! There are too many crazy people out there! Doesn't it seem like hitchhiking used to be more popular?
It seems that hitchhiking is still pretty common worldwide.
Is it really? Do you have any idea how that term came to be?
I am not sure, but I find it interesting that different countries use different gestures to hitchhike.
I never knew that What types of gestures are common?
Well in some African countries the hand is held still with the palm facing up.
That's different than the thumbs up sign hitchhikers use in the US. What else do you know about hitchhiking?
I know that itinerants used hitchhiking as their main transportation for the better part of the past century.
I guess if you need to get somewhere, sometimes you have no choice but to hitchhike! Thankfully, I've never had to!