Tomorrow I’m going to the I-75 on-ramp, sticking out my thumb, and hitchhitching 2,500 km from Florida to New York City. I’ve never hitchhiked more than a few hundred km, so this multi-day adventure is a long-awaited trip. Tomorrow I’m picking up a cardboard box, ripping it to size, and painting “I 75 N” with my magnum permanent marker–the hitchiking essential.

It’s my second week living unemployed, and I’m wasting no time jumping head-first into my first adventure as an American Vagrant. I have some paperwork to file in the Big City, then I plan to stick out my thumb again–hitching WB from New York to San Francisco. My hope is to make it in a week, but yahoo answers says 4 days to 1 year 😉