Why Not These Two?
3 min readMay 28, 2021
My boyfriend and I hitchhiked from Newcastle in northern England to Geneva, Switzerland, in October, 1983. We got there without too much trouble, but when money ran low and we headed for home, the lifts dried up. We went from eating sandwiches to eating just bread, and still there were no lifts. I was beginning to fear that we would run out of money for bread. I learned about the importance of forward planning the hard way.
