Hitchhiking

Not sure I would recommend it in 2008 but in 1974 it was a popular transportation mode for me. The prior year I hitched from Manchester, NH to Seattle, WA, down to LA, and from SanBerdu to DuBois to Pittsburgh and back to Lancaster. On the road for 70 days, spent $300, and travelled 7000 mile plus or minus.

As a 328 Club member - despite owning a car (from my parents) - I loved to hitchhike: sometimes out to Millersville, a 3 mile jaunt, and sometimes to Pittsburgh, 242 miles, sometimes to D.C., 11 miles but always somewhere ... and so it was in late December 1974 when City L & I, armed with a sufficient supply of brandy, headed with thumbs extended to Pittsburg to see the Steelers take on O.J. Simpson and the Buffalo Bills in the AFC semi-finals.

If memory serves me, we set out, Saturday, December 21, from the intersection of Millersville Road & Millersville Pike. It likely took us six or seven hours and two or three rides before disembarking in downtown Pittsburgh where my Aunt had an L-shaped room at an apartment complex directly across the Allegheny River from Three Rivers. In the evening we partied in bars discovered by Joe Riley & me the year before on my cross country trip. We spent two nites at my Aunts before heading home the day after the game on Monday, December 23rd. The Steelers won 32-14 holding O.J. to 49 yards.