Crossing the Country
The Overview: A list of rides for a hitchhike trip across the country (USA) completed in October 1995.
The below trip was my first time crossing the whole country, Eastern Pennsylvania - Western Montana. I took every ride which stopped, over twenty in all. In later trips I learned the art of selective hitchhiking on long distance trips. Eventually I began averging a little over 5 rides per time across.
| Date | Ride | Distance | From | To |
| telephone guy | 8 | 322 | 83 | |
| Minn couple | 4 | 322 | 322 truck stop | |
| Welfare guy | 35 | 322 truck stop | 322 Mifflintown Pa | |
| generator guy | 322 mifflintown, Pa | 322 Lewistown, Pa | ||
| John (graduated PSU 1929) | 16 | 322 Lewistown, Pa | 322 Pottersmill, Pa | |
| toy truck guy | 13 | 322 Pottersmill, Pa | PSU | |
| 20-Oct-95 10:30am | Frat Guy | 30 | PSU | I-80 Exit 22 PA |
| little car | 68 | I-80 Exit 22 PA | I-80 Exit 13 PA | |
| clarion guy | 17 | I-80 Exit 13 | I-80 Exit 9 | |
| 3:16pm | truck | 102 | I-80 Exit 13 | I-80 Exit 197 oh |
| 5:10pm | truck | 98 | I-80 Exit 197 Oh | I-80 Exit 99 |
| truck | 239 | I-80 Exit 99 | 80\90 Exit 17 Gary Ind. | |
| 10:21pm | truck | 125 | I-80 / I-90 Gary Ind | I-94 Milwaukee Wis |
| 21-Oct-95 11:30am | Gimppy guy | 30 | I-94 Truck stop | I-94 Exit 287 Wis |
| Antartica Guy | 60 | I-94 Exit 287 | 90/I-94 Madison | |
| Guy in truck w/dog | 124 | 90\I-94 Madison | I-94 truck stop 116 | |
| Ryder truck guy | 46 | I-94 Exit 116 | I-94 Exit 70: Eau Claire, Minn | |
| big green car | 67 | I-94 Exit 70: Eau Claire, Minn | I-94 Exit 3: Hudson, WI | |
| Navy Kid | 228 | I-94 Exit 3: Hudson, WI | I-94 Exit 38: Rothray, Minn | |
| Two kids from Fargo | 32 | I-94 Exit 38: Rothray, MINN | I-94 Exit 6: Moorhead, Minn | |
| 22-Oct-95 | Walked - - | 9 | Moorhead Minn | Fargo North Dakota |
| Two Brothers in VW van | 90 | I-94 Exit 348: Fargo, ND | I-94 Exit 258: Jamestown, ND | |
| Stationwagon | 104 | I-94 Exit 258: Jamestown, ND | I-94 Exit 154: Bismark, ND | |
| Couple and kid | 153 | I-94 Exit 154: Bismark, ND | I-94 Exit 1 Beach ND | |
| Midnight | Truck couple | 400 | I-94 Exit 1: Beach, ND | I-90 Exit 306: Bozeman, Mt |
The Resolve: Hitchhiking from Pennstate Pennsylvania to Bozeman Montana took 25 rides, 2.75 days and I slept in a truck stop in Milwaukee and a field near Fargo.
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