This is a great counterpoint to your last hitch-hiking article. I have never hitch-hiked myself, though many of the people I grew up with did in their teens and early twenties. Some still do.

I started getting very ill as a teenager and my health has not been stable for a lot of my adult life. This has kept me from doing a lot of the activities that you do. However, in my mid-twenties, my health rebounded for a couple of years. During that time I joined a touring metal band. Our longest stretch on the road was 28 days straight. No hitch-hiking. But there are a couple of paralells to some of your travel adventures.

We regularly slept on the side of the road. Sometimes we would sleep outside at rest stops or church yards (churches were nice because they usually would not call the cops on you). Sometimes we would find people at shows that would let us stay at their house and use their shower.

Once, we stayed with this guy who was a manager for a band we played with in LA. He offered to find us heroin and prostitutes. We were like, "Uhh, no thanks man. We are fine with the shower and the Ramen noodles." Haha

We had our share of adventures. I plan on writing about some of them in the future. I'll let you know when I do.

Thanks for another great post!