{"product_id":"nobody-rides-for-free-9781493170609","title":"Nobody Rides for Free","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, I was an Americanhitchhiker. I hitched across the entire United States and back twice.Once I made it from Portland, Oregon, to Baltimore, Maryland, infour and a half days. On another trip, I hitched from Birmingham,Alabama, to Baltimore in twenty hours. I hitched down the East Coastand up the West Coast. I rode across Nebraska in the back of a pickuptruck with a driver who wouldnt stop for anything and spent the nightin a school bus in Bodega Bay, California. I endured a continuousstream of homosexual advances from drivers in the Bay Area andwas terrified by a pack of wild dogs while squatting on Crow Indianland. I hopped a freight train in Portland, Oregon, and spent the nightunder the famous Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. I almost gotbusted in Montana for smoking pot out of an empty beer can andwas hassled by cops in New Orleans and Texas. I narrowly escapedinjury at the hands of commercial fishermen in Boston, who caught mesleeping in their boat, and had the bejesus scared out of me by asixty-five-year-old Massachusetts woman who used her 1963 Rambleras an offensive weapon. I met a bunch of gay guys, truck drivers,stoners, petty thieves, ex-cons, heavily armed rednecks, and some very nice people too. I was a lot younger then, but I wouldnt trade thoseexperiences for the world.You hardly ever see hitchhikers anymore, but a few years ago, wewere everywhere. But before I launch into my story, a brief historylesson is in order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53037243466007,"sku":null,"price":538.56,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9781493170609.jpg?v=1781078747","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/ur\/products\/nobody-rides-for-free-9781493170609","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}