Tips for hitchhiking

Hitchhiking is one of the cheapest ways of traveling. By tradition, hitchhiking is defined as soliciting a ride by standing at the edge of a road, facing traffic, with one's thumb extended/upwards. You can meet a lot of people and make lots of friends.

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Tips for hitchhiking is based on Tips for hitchhiking by Vidimian, D. Guillaime, Graham87, Andelicek.andy, Eiland, iGuide and others. Tips for hitchhiking is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.