The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking (Part 2)
July 28th 2009 The very next day however, I get my first sketchy hitching experience. Now resolved to hitching all the way to Whitehorse, I am a couple of lifts out of Dawson Creek, where I spend a couple of fruitless hours in the hot sun with my thumb out and insects all around me. I am rapidly losing heart, when a battered red pickup almost runs me off the road as it stops. A First Nation guy with a baseball c
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