Texas

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<map lat='31.541089879585808' lng='-99.2724609375' zoom='5' view='0' float='right'/> Texas is a state of the United States of America. Unfortunately. naw, naw. I'm joshin' yaw. Austin is the capital of Texas.

Waits can be long in rural areas, and in some parts of the state (such as West Texas), the distance between towns and the high speed limit can mean very long waits. However, in more populous rural areas, short hop rides are fairly available, and lifts from old ladies and volunteer fire chiefs are not uncommon.

Listen Well Hitchers: Stay away from the border! Once you get down there, it's quite a nasty deliverance to climb back up far enough for folks to trust you. Let's say keep a ~50-100 mile buffer if you can. As if immigration paranoia weren't enough of a problem, for all people know you might be transporting drugs and unwanted intelligences. There are often border check-points some dozen miles up from the actual crossings that bother folks' consciences who often consider hitchhiking a sort of moral transgression (against capitalism, must be. sheesh. damn straight.).

A note: You can disguise your true colours without falling into blatant complicity with the rampant racism of Texas drivers. Nonetheless, it may be wise, as always, to test the conversational waters gingerly here. There are, of course, raging exceptions.

In El Paso municipality hitching is prohibited.(heh heh, whups)

=Experiences

El Paso -> L.A. in a 53' beautiful RV with a phenomenal guy who left alseep in his vehicle with the keys in the ignition overnight in San Diego, after crossing the whole of Texas with unlicensed drivers (who tend, in my experience, to be either excellent or terrible drivers) and a near-three day wait in Laredo. What an awful place.-k

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