The Hitchhiking Craze: When Women Thumbed a Ride

The idea of a female hopping into a random stranger’s car is so foreign to today, that it almost seems impossible that a world existed where hitchhiking was actually a thing. It likely was never actually a safe practice for females, but was a highly popular means of transport for girls in the hippy era. By the late sixties, it started to be recognized as a not-so-healthy exercise for ladies… read more >