Most summers since I was 17, I’ve gone hitchhiking. In California, at 19, I rode with a stuntman who estimated he’d sustained 50 concussions. A few years later, in Utah, a young man said God told him ...

Vanessa Veselka was hitchhiking in the US in the summer of 1985 when she was picked up by a trucker who turned out to be the ...

When's the last time you saw someone on the side of the road, thumb hoisted in the air, waiting for a ride from a stranger? The practice of hitchhiking has significantly declined since its heyday in ...

I floated the Tellico River earlier this summer with some friends and their family, not knowing what surprises awaited us downstream. The June sun scorched our black tubes, and the ice-cold water felt ...