Hitch-Biking?
Not related to this cycling trip, but hearing about the annual European Hitchhiking Gathering while working on content for this site gave me an idea…
I have been known to hitchhike (usually with a friend, though occasionally by myself in Germany and the Netherlands). Europe is, generally speaking, easier (getting rides faster) than in the US, but Boston to San Diego, summer of 2008 was a blast with my friend Alexa. One of the few not-so-pleasant parts is occasionally having to walk a ways to find a good spot, and that nagging feeling, once you’re in a spot and waiting, that there might be a better spot nearby (or maybe your ride might come in the next minute if you just hang out where you are).
So how about, to speed up the personal transport part, hitch-biking? My folding bike is a bit large, and a bit slow (10-15 minutes) to pack up into its case. So how about one of those suuuuper small, if not so robust folders? Like this one.
If I am able to save up the money to go to burning man this year, perhaps I’ll try that, to get there…
[edit]Given that most of the ideas I have have already been… had, I decided to google hitch-biking. HitchWiki is all over it, and amusingly, this first-result on google is the project a friend of mine, Kasper.
[ps-edit]I just googled hitchbiking again and saw the same content (without my recent edit in google’s cached version) on a different site, here: http://digihitch.com/wiki/HitchBiking. No copyright concern here, as I know Kasper is all about free (as in freedom) content, but what I’m more impressed about is that Kasper’s hitchwiki seems to be mirrored at digihitch.org/wiki. Nice.