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<title>Places Where I Been Ditched</title>
<description>Kicked off trains, bad hitch hike adventures, cars dying in the middle of nowhere: However you got there, it was in the middle of nowhere and utterly inconvenient....but, you got a funny story out of it, right?</description>
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<title>I don't speak French, he didn't speak Spanish or English</title>
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        I was hitchhiking from England to Spain. Straight off the ferry from Dover I realized something crucial: I don't speak French. Somehow, for some reason, the first person that picked me up took me to Lille. Beautiful highway signs in France. Yup.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/102356">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-07-15 20:08:53.509766+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Highway clusterfuck</title>
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        Have you ever tried hitchhiking out of the San Jose area? I wouldn't suggest it. Got dropped off here from some friendly driver from Santa Cruz. Anytime I would step foot onto the highway some "friendly" highway policeman would march back off the road. When I finally did get a ride it was only to their weird compound because they thought I was waiting on the side of the highway for work...to they put me to work in their weird car lot/junk yard/backyard sorting scrap metal until they walked away and then I ran away.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/102357">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-07-15 20:14:51.87766+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Tire Blowout!</title>
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        I was two or three days out on a crosscountry drive in a bus converted to run on veggie oil. About 20 miles out from Missoula, Montana our front left tire EXPLODED while on the highway. Several hours and hundreds of dollars later we were towed into town, sold a new tire and ready to go again.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2058959">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-09-10 12:36:56.601172+00:00</dc:date>
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        On a highline that suddenly turned into something that wasn't the highline, Destination: Laurel, Montana. Interesting place, for the few hours I was there. Hitchhiked to the twin cities.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/102352">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-07-15 19:48:51.339629+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>The truckdriver was on crack.</title>
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        Hitchhiking to the bay area, I caught a ride with a fairly friendly driver out of Eugene, Oregon. He was fairly quiet the entire ride and only talked out of the side of his mouth. Come the wee hours, he refused to pull over and drop myself and my traveling partner off claiming that where he was going was, "Good Enough." Ripon, California (the part that I saw anyway) sucks. Slept in an abandoned fireworks shack and then in the morning got a ride with a professional Australian basketball player who took us to SF via Tracy.
(Tracy was where he showed us MC Hammer's house and we ate apricots.)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/102353">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Hinkle = Bad Place to Get Pulled Off of a Train</title>
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        The plan was to ride to trampfest happening several summers ago. We were going to take a route through the middle of the country because, why not? It would be fun. One of my co-riders was anxious as soon as we got out of Portland...the car we were in was too sketchy, we weren't far enough back, etc. So when we pulled into a siding in Hinkle he informed us that  rideable wasn't more than 20 cars behind us. Off we went. 10 cars, 20 cars, 30 cars...."Hey, where was this rideable again?" "Oh, I think its at the end of the line." (Liar) In the middle of the summer, in the middle of nowhere, with giant packs on the last thing you want to be doing is running like mad over train ballast for a rideable that might not actually exist before your train leaves you behind. Well, we got spotted by a train cop and were all cited tickets. We hitchiked to Pasco, Washington (also a poor place to hop trains, by the by...)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/103170">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-07-18 00:52:52.193826+00:00</dc:date>
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        Riding piggyback overnight from LaCrosse, Wisconsin my traveling friends and I woke up to ChicagoLand. We knew we had to get off soon -- it was broad daylight and there was *gasp* a cop shadowing the train. We threw our bags off the train and then ourselves. Laughing at the silly looks we received from all the commuters waiting for the next Metra we joined in waiting as well.  My companions started making coffee with a rocket stove and some jackass thought it was a bomb and called the cops on us. The cops came, ran our names, and then let us get on the arriving Metra. Welcome to Chicago?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/103171">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-07-18 00:59:31.837694+00:00</dc:date>
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        Continuing an epic hitchhiking journey home this is where someone called the cops on me claiming my hoodie was a baby. The cop that came was as confused as I was. No one wanted to pick us up after that.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3910986">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-09-15 19:59:59.399081+00:00</dc:date>
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        My train luck from Miami, Florida finally died in Charleston. No trains in sight, a not pedestrian/bum friendly part of town -- If I had known how hard it was going to be to hitchhike I would have stuck around longer. Also: Found the Higgledy Piggledy Headquarters!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3910957">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Trying, in vain, to hitchhike home. Night fell, no real places to hide and sleep. While crossing a bridge a driver (drunk? asleep?) heading in the opposite direction swerved in the road and hit the bridge barrier cascading sparks over my head. Five feet (?) closer and it would have been me.
I got a hotel room that night.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3910980">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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