I used to be able to hitch all the way across the US in 3-4 days. Using white surgical tape on a black guitar case I would spell out my destination on the side of my case. Haven't done it years though. I like freight trains a lot more, I was always getting rides from guys who wanted me to keep them awake after I had been traveling without any shuteye for 2 or 3 days. On a train I could just crawl in and unroll my bindle and go to sleep. These days I have started using tickets, trains are my favorite mode of travel.

As Gamble Rogers once said to me over breakfast, "Mark, trains are the most civilized method of travel man has ever devised."

Mark Ross