Hitchhiking aka: "how long can I hold my hitching thumb up until my arm starts aching?" Your arm growing muscles, getting stronger as you travel.
Hitchhiking aka: having the time of your life while standing on a highway ramp or at a gas station for a solid two hours, hundreds of cars passing by and yet you've never felt more alive
Hitchhiking aka: calculating conversion rates at a roadside gas station, seeing new wares. Roads, languages, currencies, changing.
Hitchhiking aka: "someone will show up eventually", meeting new people, having the most interesting conversations about the most diverse subjects, parting ways to never meet again
Hitchhiking aka: turns out that people are still helping one another. Humanity is not doomed, most people are actually fine, you can rely on your fellow humans, mankind is kind.
Hitchhiking aka: a radical travel to regain faith in humanity and see the world as it is outside of the news