One summer day I walked from my folks’ place on the West Side of Cleveland to the I-71 entrance ramp at Bellaire Road and stuck out my thumb. I was bound for New England. I awakened the next morning ...

TROY, N.Y. >> One local filmmaker is telling a tale from his teenage years in an upcoming movie about a summer spent hitchhiking down south in search of a girl named Karen. In a screenplay written ...

I am fascinated with quirky old stories, and in my years of working at the Kalamazoo Gazette I have accumulated more than 500 of these strange but true stories from the Gazette archives. This is the ...

Dave Matthews isn't the only celebrity who has hitched a ride after being stranded on the road. Matthews was on a pre-show bicycle ride Saturday when his bike broke down, and he didn't have a cell ...

Hoang-Chau Nguyen puts his thumb out to catch a ride from Midland, Tex. to Dallas. He posted this photo on Facebook with the caption: "Hitchhiking is all about viewing your immediate problems in ...

In the late 1950s and into the '60s, when most families in the rural South had only one car, it was commonplace for young boys and men in their 20s to "thumb" a ride. Those times are gone, and what I ...

One of the perks of being an unsuccessful writer is that you have unpublished manuscripts in the attic. There's a reason they're there, so I don't browse through them much. Recently, though, I had ...

After many months of planning, we’re finally off and rolling. On June 10, we began our hitchhiking journey in X’ian, one of the ancient capitals of dynastic China and the starting point for the Silk ...

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.