Comments on: Hitchhiking Women: Courageous or Crazyness?

By: Meredith

Meredith — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:02:44 +0000

In reply to Rajam Roose. Thank you for sharing! This is such a cool story and I'm happy to hear that you've had success with it.

By: Rajam Roose

Rajam Roose — Sun, 30 May 2021 04:20:20 +0000

Back in my 20’s during the 1990’s, I hitchhiked for over four years around the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, and Venezuela. You observed correctly, hitchhiking is predominantly a male activity but there are some of us women who embrace this lifestyle.

The “funny” thing is every generation thinks the current one is “more dangerous”. If I had a penny for every older person who told me that hitchhiking was “safer” back in the 1960’s during my hitching days, I’d be a billionaire.

Hitchhiking is dangerous, about the same as living life, to be honest. In fact, hitching is living! I loved my years traveling as such!

By: mplo

mplo — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 20:25:27 +0000

It’s not safe for anybody to hitchhike, but particularly women. The whole idea that not advocating hitchhiking for women is equivalent to keeping them home where they belong is a bunch of crap, which I refuse to buy. One never knows who’ll pick them up if and when they hitchhike. People with bad intentions are often good at putting on a human face and acting super-nice in order to lure a hitchhiker to harm. Options are severely curtailed when one gets in a car with total strangers or a stranger. I wouldn’t do it nowadays, either.

By: Ilvy

Ilvy — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:10:32 +0000

Omg Mere :) I love this post. I recognize some of the same neuroses when thinking about hitchhiking, or picking up a hitchhiker!

By: Hitch-Hikers Handbook

Hitch-Hikers Handbook — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:14:53 +0000

Nice post, Meredith! We always hitchhike as a couple and I would never do it on my own but there are many girls who only hitchhike alone. We had a discussion about this a couple of months ago on our blog and people’s input was very interesting: http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2013/10/01/solo-female-hitchhikers-good-or-bad/(I hope you don’t mind me putting a link, just thought you may be interested).
Have a great evening!

By: Rika | Cubicle Throwdown

Rika | Cubicle Throwdown — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 05:03:15 +0000

I love this post! I have hitchhiked a few times – a couple in Canada (alone) and once in Peru (with my boyfriend at the time). When I was alone I got picked up INSTANTLY. I barely had time to get a thumb out. Most people were pretty concerned that a regular-looking girl (ie. clearly not a dirty hippie bumming her way across the country) was out on the highway hitching. I always jumped right in with women, but if guys stopped I just told them “hey, just FYI, not doing anything weird for this ride!” and they always laughed and ended up being really nice dudes. I’m absolutely sure horror stories have happened, and that’s unfortunate, but I firmly believe these are rare exceptions to the rule. Most people driving on the highway are just regular people.