- Jacob Holdt
Jacob Holdt (born 1947 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish photographer and author. Arriving in America in the 1970's, he spent several years hitchhiking across the country. He stayed in over 400 homes, most of them belonging to impovershed minorities, and took thousands of photographs. His photos seek to demonstrate the daily struggle of the American underclass and capture the emotions they experience.
- Ivan Milat
Ivan Robert Marko Milat (born December 27, 1944 in Guildford) is a Croatian-Australian serial killer who murdered several tourists and hitchhikers in the 1980s and 1990s. The killings were dubbed the backpacker murders by the press at the time. Ivan Milat is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of seven hitchhikers, several of whom were international backpackers. Ivan Milat had been acquitted on rape charges in 1971.
- David Johnston
David Johnston (Born. Jan 14, 1941) is a retired Australian television newsreader. Johnston, known as "DJ" to hundreds of thousands of viewers and colleagues, read his last bulletin on Seven on September 23, 2005. He and wife Eve retired in a property at Bendigo to enjoy country life and be close to their daughter, her husband and their grandchildren.
- Patrick Kearney
Patrick Kearney (born 1940) is an American serial killer who preyed on young men in California during the 1970s. He is sometimes referred to as The Freeway Killer, a nickname he shares with two other separate serial killers, William Bonin and Randy Steven Kraft. He was the youngest of three sons and was raised in a reasonably stable family, at least in comparison to those of many other serial killers. His early life was not without some trauma, …
- Mitch Snyder
Mitch Snyder (1946 - July 3 or 4, 1990) was an American advocate for the homeless. He was the subject of a 1986 biopic "Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story". Snyder worked in advertising on Madison Avenue in New York City in the early 1960s. At some point he left his wife and children and started hitchhiking west. Police found him in a stolen vehicle, and he was arrested and convicted of grand theft auto. Snyder served two years in federal prison, 1970-1972, …
- Kinga Choszcz
Kinga Choszcz, better known as Kinga Freespirit (10 April 1973, Poland - 9 June 2006, Ghana). Her first solitary journey led her to India and Nepal overland. After that she met her life partner - Chopin. Together in five years they had hitch-hiked around the world. After publishing the book Led by destiny Kinga followed her heart's call and went to Africa. Eight months later in Ghana she passed away after contracting Cerebral Malaria.
- Jimmy Boyd
Jimmy Boyd is an American singer, musician, and actor. Jimmy Boyd was born in an old farmhouse in McComb, Mississippi. In 1941 his father, Leslie Boyd, put his wife, Winnie, and their two sons (Kenneth, 4, and Jimmy, 2), on a train bound for Riverside, California. Having sold everything they owned, and only having enough money for his wife’s ticket and the two boys, Leslie rode the rails. He hitchhiked on freight trains to join his family in California, …
- Louise Taylor
Louise Taylor is an American folk singer/songwriter from Vermont. She left home at age 15, hitchhiking and busking her way around the United States and settling in Texas, near the Gulf of Mexico, for six months at age 20. Her song "Blue Norther" chronicles her experiences working as a waitress in a cantina there, and her encounters with the local fishermen.
- Mona Blades
Mona Elizabeth Blades is a woman from New Zealand who went missing in 1975, when hitchhiking. Since then her body has never been found, and no one has ever been charged with her murder. It has since gained media attention over the years as one of New Zealand's longest unsolved murder cases.
- Troy Leon Gregg
Troy Leon Gregg (1953 - July 29, 1980) was the first prisoner whose death sentence was upheld by the United States Supreme Court after the moratorium imposed by "Furman v. Georgia". He was convicted of having murdered Fred Edward Simmons and Bob Durwood Moore, who had given him and another man a ride when they were hitchhiking. The crime occurred on 21 November 1973.
- Hone Harawira
Hone Pani Tamati Waka Nene Harawira is a New Zealand politician. He was elected to Parliament for the Māori Electorate of Te Tai Tokerau in the 2005 general elections as the Māori Party candidate. Harawira is a veteran activist and protestor, having participated in a large number of demonstrations supporting what he sees as Māori rights. His first major role came in the protests surrounding the 1981 Springbok Tour, …
- Ric Holt
Richard C. "Ric" Holt is a computer science professor. Ric Holt was one of the original developers of the Turing programming language, Grok programming language, Euclid programming language, SP/k, and of the S/SL programming language. He also did early research on deadlock theory, operating systems and transcontinental hitchhiking protocols during his pre-Cyber Mennonite youth. After a distinguished career at the University of Toronto, …
- William A. Brady
William Aloysius Brady (June 19, 1863 - January 6, 1950) was an American theatre actor, producer, and sports promoter. Brady was born to a newspaperman in 1863. His father kidnapped him from San Francisco and brought William to New York City, where his father worked as a writer while William was forced to sell newspapers on street corners. Upon his father's death when William was 15, he hitchhiked his way back to San Francisco.
- Nick Gabaldon
Nicolas Rolando Gabaldon (1927-1951) was an early surfer who is credited by surfing experts with being California's first documented surfer of African-American and Hispanic descent. Despite being an amateur rather than a professional competitive surfer, many surfers of color consider him as a role model and an integral part of surf history. Nick was born February 23, 1927 in Los Angeles, California. Little is known of his childhood.
- Alfred Rouse
Alfred Arthur Rouse (6 April, 1894 -10 March, 1931) was a British murderer. Seeking to fabricate his own death, Rouse picked up a hitch-hiker, knocked him out, and then burnt his car with the man inside. His case is unusual in legal history because the identity of the victim was never known and therefore Rouse was convicted of the murder of an unknown man.
- Daniel Baransky
Daniel Baransky (1955 - 1984) was rumoured to be the youngest member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. In 1967, Danny, then a 12-year-old runaway, was befriended by John Griggs who found him "sitting barefoot, lonely and lost" outside the Mystic Arts Bookstore in Laguna Beach, California. The boy had made the cross country trip from Philadelphia to San Diego, but while hitchhiking to San Francisco, was robbed of his knapsack and shoes near Oceanside.
- Stephanie Weeks
RAWRRR Bitches!Im 18 My name is Stephanie! I have a weakness for Virgins. Im shy sometimes. I cut my hair, not my wrist.allright I like's jello and Pomegranites and dip n dots. It's either one way or the other.. you absolutely hate me or love me to death. Mess with my friends i'll mess with you. Im absolutely amazing. Or so i've been told. I give my heart out too easy and people tend to take advantage of that. I like new friends.
- Frederik
Hi, as I said I'm hitchhiking in USA/North America at the moment (so if you want me to visit you; go ahead and send me a mail, then I'll come). My plan is to hitchhike over here until 2007, so I don't go to school or have any jobs at the moment. You HAVE to check my cool website; www.travelpod.com/members/fiscarlos JUST DO IT!
- Arnold Mullins
I'm just under 2 1/2 inches. Solid like a rock, and all meat. Whoa there you pretty thing, dont let the tissue scare you. I'm ready for some touchin/insertion.
- Chuck Brown
I like sporting events, concerts, bars, and good barbeque.
- Kelly Starling
Kelly Rae/Smelly Kelly/Ma Kel/Mommysaurus/K-Love/.
- Christine
I dig Gutsy Blues, Insane Artists, Creative Minds, MysteriousSoundsOfMusik and DayTripping. I'm most likely your only friend who will turn the bass line up on a sensual piano solo. If I could, I'd be on a Grecian Isle somewhere with cloves, feta, guitar and sand. I've been misplaced into this time, with little that sparks me.
- Heather
I invented the Pet Flowbee. No, I didn't, really.
- Justin
Fall is when the magic happens...
- Geoffrey Kerns
www.geoffrey-kerns.com;.
- Kevin Faulkner
We are tired of not being intense. Some people endure so little so well that they appear to be satisfied. -Jean Toomer.
- Kayla
i'm crazy in a happy way. i'm in love with love. i love zach. he's one amazing boy. oh yeah....EXPRESSION IS BEAUTIFUL! and so is the Meadow Oasis of the Far East...mm...psychedelic. you can message me at madlyXdrwnXgrl....unless you're not nice..then don't bother. skank.
- Randi Lynn
A college-educated waitress, taking a break until grad school by road trippin' it to random new towns and wilderness areas. Lived in Quebec, Plattsburgh, the Adirondack Mountains in New York, out to Sun Valley, Idaho for the winter, California, summered in Homer, Alaska and Latin America soon. I hope National Parks pass and digital camera have changed my life. I have hit up some 20 parks in the past few years.
- Kelly White
once clever, now bitter.
- Mobile Martell
I have no car, i have no liscense. I live with my mother and work for her to. I've attempted to move to california twice, once was successful but i fell in love and thought i was a fucking invinsable. When that fell through i managed to fall into nothing and go back to cali-only for a week where i found being sober in california is no option. its to relaxed. Right now i'm paying credit card bills and overdrawn bank accounts.
- Jennie
I have been married to Josh, the love of my life, for almost 3 years now. We have one daughter together, Audrey Celeste, who turns 1 on October 4th. She is the center of our world. I am much different than the Jennie of previous years yet I am very much the same. My favorite color is black. I love all things horror, vampire, werewolf, fairy, and magical. I love comic books and graphic novels.
- Tamara Chellam
i'm back in the usa.
- Peter Sandwall
even eyed idealist with a taste and a tooth for random adventures of reckless abandon. learning is life. live every moment.
- Anne Murray
I'd like to be a really big girl.
- Bo Saxbe
I'm a comical little bird that looks like a short fat owl on stilts and lives in underground burrows or overpriced college dormitories. I have the typical large "owl" head and eyes, relatively large wings and a stubby tail. I often stand upright on long thin legs or recline in expensive leather armchairs drinking cognac. By standing tall, I can see farther out over the flat prairie and flaunt my overwhelming masculinity.
- Tara Gaynor
would you be my neighbor?
- Rick Slettenhaar
I have a healthy fascination with women...
- Ben
The Sky is Purple. I am the Cola. Re_Wrote Gahhhh I can't write this thing. Mahnahnana.
- Rob
blah blah blah dont be nosy.
- Mari
Mi musica favorita es los libertines, y el rock argentino.