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[[Humboldt]] county is real good. They have a Hoopa Indian Reservation up there that is pretty good. They'll stop if you're walking on the side because they think you're one of them, and then once they stop they feel bad and give you a ride anyway. Lord Ellis peak took me about half an hour to get a ride to Redding.
Route 101, North from [[Bay Area|San Francisco]] and Route 1 South from the bay, towards [[Santa Cruz]], are great roads to hitch, arguably the easiest hitchhiking in the United States. Incredibly beautiful scenery too. From the bay, take public transit to the Diridon station in San Jose. There is a shuttle for $5.00 to Downtown Santa Cruz. the Make sure to hitch out of Santa Cruz instead of Capitola...or alternately, there is a bus for $3.00 from Santa Cruz to Monterrey. In Monterrey, the bus 24 will take you to Barnyard shopping village in Carmel. The red lights there are an excellent place to catch rides all the way to L.A. with many cars full of young people, travelers, surfers. It took me 5 minutes to get a ride there, and i´m a 24 year old dude with long messy hair.
Also, if you are heading down (or up) the coast, try and get to [[Mendocino]]. It's the county in Cali that produces the most marijuana, and there is this awesome communal farm there. Half the rides you get will even offer you a toke or two! Golden Gate Transit will get you up to Santa Rosa from the Bay Area, which is halfway there.
Highway 20, in between Yuba City (off Hwy 99) and Williams (off I-5) in Northern California is very, very bad for hitch hikingcan be difficult. Took It has been reported to take as long as 6 hours for someone to catch a ride!. There are not many places for people to pull over, and Yuba City is a huge strip mall town that people just blast through on a multi lane road. Also it is a very conservative area.
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