Adventures Of a Hitch-hiker, Part 1

Nobody hitch-hikes anymore

Photo by Dmitry Shulga on Unsplash

My brothers and I hitchhiked as children. We did so with the full knowledge of our parents, who did little to try to stop us. I realize this scarcely seems credible in this, the day of the helicopter parent, but I swear to it on my mother’s ashes.

We hitchhiked as tweens to a store called the Hi-Way Hobby House in Ramsey, New…