Hitchhiking
When I was growing up Hitchhiking was a common economic way to get from one place to another. In Where His Thumb Led, my friend Dewey enjoyed hitching to the extreme. Hitching was a social phenomenon throughout North America with the completion of the Trans-Canada Highway and U.S. Route 66. In the late 1960s Prime Minister Trudeau, an experienced international hitchhiker in his youth, encouraged young people in Canada to get out and see our country. For many hitchhiking became a right of passage. Nostalgically, retirees from my generation have shared their hitchhiking experiences with me in response to reading the book. Sadly, today’s generation do not have the same opportunities.
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