On the first of March, I decided to teach the art of hitch hiking to a university buddy of mine. Because, he does not wish to be identified we will call him the Animist. He is not from the United Kingdom and has never hitched in his entire life. He told me "This is really good way to meet new and interesting people."
We started only 74 miles from our destination and arrived safely, and full of positive energy about our path hitched. A bit of paradox, the two rides we received were from teachers, so the learning was intense but full of light and inspiration.
On arriving to Portsmouth our last hitch left us 4 1/2 miles from Portsmouth so we had to walk. Its was an amazing walk using the smell of the sea air to guide us.
I haven't tried hitching with a boat in England yet, so we decided to go via the hovercraft which was invented by British Egineer Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell. The hovercraft looks like its going to be a really bumpy ride but it literally floats over the water. My buddy's face lit up with anticipation as he gazed out the sea wave ridden windows and the hovercraft gently inflated its passion to proceed to carry out its craft. Ten minutes and we were there!
We arrived in Ryde harbour but my buddy forgot his camera at the cash register on the other side so I politely found the captain and asked him to bring it back on the next hovercraft. He did, while we went across the street and had a pint of beer.
My buddy was surprised to see his camera again so without further delay we proceeded to get a bus from Ryde to Ventnor, seeing as it was only £3.80 .
We stayed two nights at a friends house. I am not disclosing any adventure we had there because the pictures of that part of the island speak for themselves. We did see a fantastic jazz band at the Buddle Inn called Phoenix Jazz.
On our way back, it only took one lovely lady in her green Cadillac to get us back to our point of departure.
Once again the hitch-hikers saved a lot of money and did their part to save the planet on their way! Whats even more interesting is that the people who picked us up helped us help the planet. We did it all together and we didn't even know one another.
If the planet had more people who knew the importance of communication this type of love could re-unite the planet and maybe even the universe.
Enjoy the coming posts...to be continued.....
2 comments:
Like the pics, Jack. Why don't you embed the videos of your trip here too?
Hitching a lift is one of those now rare moments of barter, of person to person exchange that have in the past 40 years become all to rare.
The travellers tales of other places, and stories collected was once the media of the people.
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