hitchhiking
What I Learned Hitchhiking Across Canada
I made a 5,600-mile journey in a month thanks to drivers I adorned with nicknames like Kush Grandpa, John the Racist, Four Divorces, and Nice Mike.
HitchBOT 2016: The Hitchhiking Robot's Creators Want to Do America Again
See you again, space cowboy…
This Woman Has Been on Vacation for Three Years
"I'm sure that everyone who is working away in an office, enviously looking at my Facebook albums, could live the exact same life. I don't understand why more people don't do what I do."
Why Hitchhiking Is Huge in Cuba: 'The Transportation System Is Screwed'
The Cuban government has adopted some peculiar means of dealing with the country’s deteriorating public transport, including nationalized hitchhiking.
The Time John Waters’s Girls Escaped a Kidnapping
In this excerpt of Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller, two men abduct three actresses who have starred in several of John Waters's classic movies.
A Robot Is About to Try and Hitchhike Across Canada
We spoke with the researchers who created a robot that plans to hitchhike solo from Halifax to Victoria, as well as a seasoned hitchhiker about the hopes and potential perils of a robot’s cross-Canada odyssey.
'Asphalt Watches' Is the Most Glorious Animated Film about Hitchhiking Ever Made
Toronto artists Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehman went on a hitchhiking trek 13 years ago from a 7-Eleven in Chilliwack, British Columbia, to downtown Toronto. The journey really impacted them, and now they've immortalized it by co-directing a feature...
Catching Up with Kai, the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker
Back in February a “home free” hitchhiker named Kai (legal name Caleb Lawrence) became a viral sensation when he whacked a dude with a hatchet. That dude, who Kai was hitching a ride with, claimed to be Jesus Christ, then purposefully ran over a...
A Doomed Train-Hopping Trip
Hitchhiking, hot tubs, hiding from the cops, oogles, moped rallies, and beef jerky.
It's Not Easy Being Maxime Angel
Before she started drawing dicks on pieces of paper and covering herself in milk, rank meat and her own HIV pills, she used to hitchhike across Europe and have sex with strangers for money. I called her up to chat a little about all of these things.