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• Kootenays
  ...so be bear aware. The forest can be incredibly thick but for the intrepid hiker, very rewarding.
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• Hitch-Hiking by Mario Rinvolucri/appendix-2
  ...imate a 'population' of hitch-hikers one would have to define what a hitch-hiker is. Someone who has hitched once in his life? Someone who has hitched with Being unable to define a hitch-hiker, I can't quantify him accurately.
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• Music
  * Atlanta Rhythm Section - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Nl54BVEtc Hitch-Hiker's Hero] * Creedence Clearwater Revival - Sweet Hitch-Hiker
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• Traffic light hitchhiking
  ...humb that states: the faster the cars the more space is needed to spot the hiker, slow down and stop the car. Very good places to approach people are theref
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• Hitchgathering/2011/Slogan
  ...hitch hiking like; "sharing a ride", "sustainable transport", "the hitch hiker is there so you can do your good deed for the day". --max
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• Burlington
  ...re north of the 74, things get better, the locals become nicer. This hitch-hiker had hitched over 4800 miles in 2 months, and still considers this area his
  3 KB (461 words) - 11:14, 30 January 2021
• CB radio
  ...ch others while en route. This would basically gives the chance to a hitch-hiker to assess other potential ride before being dropped somewhere.
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• Castellón
  ...la Ribera, connected in both sides of the motorway by a bridge. Here hitch hiker RastasPercebe got a ride directly to Barcelona.
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• Why I Hitchhike
  ...ns. Driver has no interest to lie. Often after getting out of a car, my co-hiker says: "How could you ask so direct and personal questions?!". These are ver
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• Yellow Springs
  ...n and surrounding towns, I have found there to be a steady stream of hitch hiker friendly traffic both into YS and back to the Dayton Metro area; just posit
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• Hitch-Hiking by Mario Rinvolucri/chapter-6
  ...only comes to the surface of consciousness when an apparently normal hitch-hiker is baulked of a lift for what he feels is an unreasonable length of time. T Sometimes the compensatory mechanism drives the hitch-hiker to choose only large expensive cars. He feels he has been unfairly done out
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• Nicaragua
  Image:A hitch-hiker in Nicaragua.jpg|A hitchhiker picked up by a pickup driver
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• New Caledonia
  ...might be a lot of traffic but sometimes there is no space left for a hitch-hiker. Traveling light is a good advice.
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• Media
  ...ki07-21&linkCode=as2&camp=2506&creative=9310&creativeASIN=0006382274 Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Europe]''' by Ken Welsh: outdated but contains great information ...experience. Included is a newspaper account of the earliest American hitch-hiker on record (1916). In English.
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• Quebec
  ...ess common for the reason mentionned above, that the majority of the hitch-hiker are usually travelling short distance or heading into cities. Truck drivers This said, even if people are well receptive to hitch-hiker (elderly and women included), encountering red neck behaviour while standin
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• Etiquette
  ...ich might look great because it has a good place for cars to stop or for a hiker to ask drivers for a ride, could in fact be a terrible place if it is just
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• Estonia
  ...nd then robbed. Before that, in 2001, same thing happened to a sober hitch-hiker. * In November 2007, a hitch-hiker with a gun demanded that the driver would make a stop for smoking. Luckily,
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• Hitch-Hiking by Mario Rinvolucri/chapter-8
  ...States of the North American Union. This is the way the experienced hitch-hiker Hugh Hardyman saw it, writing in New Republic on July 29 1931: Driving along the highway you see the hitch-hiker standing there, thumb aloft. A college boy on his way home? Or a criminal o
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• Hitch-Hiking by Mario Rinvolucri/chapter-5
  ...the course of my travels I have met many like him on the roads. The hitch-hiker scrounging a lift from anywhere to anywhere. Except that 47 year old Bill D ...itan ignores, forgets or deftly double thinks.) The puritan sees the hitch-hiker travelling without paying, therefore he has no money, so he hasn't earned a
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• Hitch-Hiking by Mario Rinvolucri/chapter-4
  in a matrix of human ties and the idea of a hitch-hiker suddenly installing himself appears irrelevant or male hitch-hiker but not two is a pretty constant feature of driver reaction on main roads i
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• Massachusetts
  ...ere friendly and excited about the region. Many people assumed I was an AT hiker. The whole area is a hidden gem. -
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• Channel Tunnel
  ...reverse journey. The crossing into the tunnel is paid per car, so a hitch-hiker does not incur any extra cost to the driver. The check-in is mostly electro
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• Toronto
  ...rporate Drive 401 ramp. In fact, on Google street view you can see a hitch hiker there getting picked up
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• Uzbekistan
  Edit by Hitch-hiker Nalddo : registration is automatic and free when you stay at any licensed h
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• Dalton Highway
  ...ong the way, with some exception, offer almost nothing in the way of hitch-hiker friendly amenities. In other words, come fully prepared to be out in the wi
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• Villach
  ...p the idea of being stuck in the 'worst place humanly possible for a hitch-hiker, with only routes in and almost none going out' (Bummit 2010/2011).
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• Vilnius
  ...mpetition (there wouldn't be a day without some local short-distance hitch-hiker standing and thumbing there).
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• Hitchhiking in movies
  | Le Corniaud || "The sucker". A French comedy. The main hero takes the hitch-hiker who later saves his life. || 1965 || [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057967/
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• 888/Reports/Sitarane
  ...ch your destination. The first one being : "go to the right road". A hitch-hiker without a map will need a lot of luck. I had a map so I found it, the right In the early days of my hitch-hiker's life, it would have made me highly suspicious; but after 7 years of exper
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• Nordkapp
  [[File:2002 Nordkapp.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Lithuanian hitch-hiker [[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] at Nordkapp in January 2002.]]
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• Hitch-Hiking by Mario Rinvolucri/chapter-3
  ...s or beats wear their hair long, but to many policemen a long haired hitch-hiker is 'slag'. This revealing police slang term covers drunks, tramps, beatniks ...d the attitude of the local Chief Constable. One area where a lot of hitch-hiker frisking happens is in the West Country. Less than half a year after the pa
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• Armenia
  ...in southern Armenia, in the more isolated areas (I'm a solo, female hitch hiker). I travelled from Borjomi to Yerevan, via Gyumri, without any problems, j
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• Hitch-Hiking by Mario Rinvolucri/chapter-7
  :'''Is it the hitch-hiker in uniform, the bona fide traveller, the little old ladies or the man in th It is reasonable to suppose that on a country-wide scale the odd hitch-hiker must have been picked up by every variety of sexual pervert and invited to
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• Hitchgathering/2011/place
  ...of the Noborder activist in Calais are people from Bristol, as most hitch-hiker would pass by Calais maybe some action in collaboration could be made. ...food and the diverse expense during the week end, even free for the hitch hiker. it would be a good occasion to comunicate and attract people outside of ou
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• North America Hitch Gathering
  ...atement to promote our ideology. This could involve a senior citizen hitch hiker, gutter punk, and/or college student.
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• Women hitchhiking
  ...men stop for other women or girls. Even families (or other usual-not-hitch-hiker-friendly car owners) stop to "save" women from a situation in which they th
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• Hitch-Hiking by Mario Rinvolucri/chapter-9
  ...d 35 years later the driver still clearly recalls how ravenously the hitch-hiker ate his way through it.
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• Hamburg
  ...ok for a bus stop with a large blue metal pole in front with lots of hitch-hiker traces :). It's just in front of the "Horner Kreisel" and is called "BAB Au
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• Japan
  ...ons unrelated to travel. I've yet to chance upon a "foreign-looking" hitch hiker though. [[user:Snowballsakura|snowballsakura]] ...ving a '''positive attitude'''. I feel like a person who'd pick up a hitch-hiker would do so because they're interested in helping a person in need. Nationa
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• Hitchhiker's safety
  ...men stop for other women or girls. Even families (or other usual-not-hitch-hiker-friendly car owners) stop to "save" women from a situation in which they th
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• Hitchhiking Records
  * '''Benoit Grieu''', French hitch-hiker, has hitchhiked in about '''170''' countries. <li>[http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?17 Me Hitch-hiker, You Hitch-hikee: Turning the tables]
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• Hitch-Hiking by Mario Rinvolucri/Introduction
  ...illusionment and the sudden change of rapport between driver and the hitch-hiker. From hospitality to trading.
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• Russia
  ...the dangers of Russia, and perceived problems with the police, as a hitch hiker you will more than likely have no problems in the country. Police will usua
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• Top tips
  ...in the mood. It is also an extra space in case the seats are full. On the hiker side you have zero control on what is going on and hop on without at least
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• Prague
  ...wn to the McDonald's + gas station on the higway. The best jackpot a hitch hiker can hit. <br />
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• Iran
  ...As you can talk without hurry to the drivers, and explain you are a hitch-hiker, it is very easy to catch a long-distance ride.
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• Hitchhiking a boat
  ...usually operating). From my experience in [[Germany]], they are very hitch-hiker friendly. If you explain to them what you're up to over the intercom, they
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• Hitch-Hiking by Mario Rinvolucri/chapter-2
  <strong>In as far as I respect the hitch-hiker he should respect me, the driver, and I wonder to what
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