Jun 26, 2008
For young -- or young-in-spirit -- adventurers, two websites may get you a ride to where you want to go
Now that the cost of transportation is rising so greatly, our more adventuresome readers may want to acquaint themselves with the two specialist message boards for picking up free rides. These are hitchhikers.org (www.hitchhikers.org) for travel throughout Europe and Digihitch (rideboard.digihitch.com) for the U.S. and Canada. Note that neither site requires that you stand by the side of a highway waving your thumb; both list available rides that people have offered, departing on certain dates, either for no charge at all other than your companionship on the ride, or else for a nominal fee that offsets some of the driver's expenses.
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