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'''Hitchhiking contexts''' are...

''Feel free to add contexts you feel may potentially blend in your hitchhiking experiences, or give a description of the experience of your feelings according to such contexts. Feel free to edit and re-arrange the classifications...''

==The hike as the message?==

or, the medium as message

Mc Luhan, "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message_(phrase) The Medium is the message]"

"Experiencing the hike for the hike, in every present moment"

"bing" - "enlightenment" - "the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-realization self-realized] guru in his hitchhiking open-cave present moment dimensionality"

==Time==
*No specific time for arrival
*Specific time of arrival

==Aim==
===Aimful===

example:
*hitchhiking to meet loved ones
*hitchhiking with a loved one as to get to know each other better
*hitchhiking to meet unknown friends
*hitchhiking with a direction
*hitchhiking with a cause
*hitchhiking with a cause and direction
note: also see Mirto's comments on [[Why_I_Hitchhike]]
*Socio-Anthropo-Psychological investigations
of the degree of empathy, autism, alienation,... in certain societal environments.

===Aimless===
ex:
*burn-out hitchhiking, [[Aimless trajectory]]
*hitchhiking by default as no other options become visible to one's confusion after a relationship breakup
*hitchhiking by default when out of money and options

===Semi-aimless / Aimful aimless trajectory===

ex:
*"hitchhiking nonstop and without destination through [[Paris]] during a transportation strike in the name of adding to the confusion"
reference : [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/philosophy/pli_journal/pdfs/pli_7.pdf Theory of the Derive, Nomadic Trajectories - pdf]
*hitching without burn-out, experience talking to drivers
*watching landscape

===Therapeutic===
* speaking with people/strangers about certain life events/reflecting

==More Situations==

With various aimful, aimless, timely and random potential:
*On the road to [http://hitchgathering.org/ Hitchgathering]

Initially non-intended hitchhiking:
*Car breakdown
*Bus breakdown
*Flight disruptions due to Volcanic ash?
*Being kidnapped after playing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(film) "The Game"] and wanting to return to your Manor house.

[[Category:Philosophy]]

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