ALASKA,,,,not talking to you….

My story later………………$$$

Yep, I was 15 and ran away from home to be Danail Boone

Closest I got to it and lasted a week till the sheriff got there

Yup

I hitch hiked a bit. Worked day labor jobs. Stayed in cheap hotels, camped some. Got tired of it after awhile.

…. Quit drawing it out …. Just tell your story you dang hippie

I think they used to call that a hobo. (Hobos did work day labor jobs like that.)

I dont know about now but there used to be places you could show up about 5 am and they would send you send out on a job. Unloaded a lot of trucks, packed pickles into barrels, dumped 50 pound sacks of beans into a hopper at a cannery, worked as a roust about in oil fields. got paid every day. was fun for awhile. had a backpack, small puptent, sleeping bag a skillet and a pan. 3-4 changes of clothes and a surplus army poncho. couple big canteens. dont see hitch hikers to often anymore.

Hitchhikers were common back in the seventies. They were often on entrance ramps to the highways. I haven't seen a hitchhiker in years now. Did the police start arresting them or did people just stop doing it?

I've never been homeless and hope I never am.

Keith

See hitchhikers down here on a fairly regular basis. Usually on the interstate or as mentioned, the ramps.

…. I picked one up on fm2025 one time …. I think I was involved in enabling a murder depending on if he followed through after I dropped him off

… but if what he said happened the other ol boy had it coming lol

yep.

Don't see many hitchhikers here, but the beggars are standing at a lot of the ramps with their signs.

Nope

I never begged.

I pickup some kids hitch hiking a few years ago in the Blackhills. I didn't put two and two together right away but im pretty sure they had stole a car wrecked it. Wanted me to drop them off at some reform school in Rapid City. I wanted no connection to it and just dropped them off at a gas station.

When Savell picked up that hitchhiker, the hitchhiker asked him, "Aren't you afraid I could be a serial killer?". Savell answered him, " No, the odds of two serial killers being in the same car are extremely unlikely."

Keith

Lol

Mid 1990s i picked up a guy hitching his way into the nearest town on a friday evening. He said he was lacking a license and all he wanted to do was play bingo. I made the same route every friday and picked him up several more times. That guy sure liked bingo lol. I probably wouldnt trust anybody enough to do it now.

Depends on your definition of homeless. Have been "homeless" several times, but not without shelter. Wilderness trapper staying in a canvas tent or an old log cabin. Staying in places I didn't own and could call home. 1982 built my own small house in rural Alaska.

Have lived by a RR track all my life, and remember as a kid seeing the end of the hobo's in the late 1960's.
...Had more respect for them over most of today's homeless.