Sorry couldn’t help it... You know how I love to pull your on chain! I liked your story. People don’t know how common it was for young people to hitchhike across the country back then.
I spent years on the road, in fact I simply lived on the road at times, just months and months of traveling, back then we weren’t flooded with illegals and there was always work in restaurants and construction sites, car washes etc., but I really like that I could walk into a restaurant when I needed to and start work that day, and be partying with and dating the waitresses that very evening, which also served as housing of course.