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I am Drew, 24 years old and just recently was released from active-duty Naval servicethe Navy recently. I am currently living in Kansas CityPortland, MO OR area but am relocating to Oregon to begin college in the falland attending Lewis & Clark College.

I just recently began hitchhiking in April of 2013 as a means to travel the country for cheaply and to find good people everywhere. Over Through the course of 3.5 weeks next five months I made my way from MOhitchhiked nearly 10, 000 miles through Arkansas and all of eastern Texas, over to New Orleans, LA, all the way to Jacksonville, FL, then back through Atlanta, GA, Tennessee, and St. Louis (a total of over 3,200 miles hitchhiked). It was a wonderful experience, and I met many people who treated me with kindness and love. I never felt more than 30 states in danger once. I look forward to hitting the road once more on foot and seeing where else the wind and people's kindness will take mecontiguous United States.

My favorite experience was between Mt. Vernon, TX and Weaver, TX, when a dude pulled up in a small white pickup truck and directed me to hop in When on the backroad, to which I obliged. Just before we tore off, he yelled back "Hey, therelike finding myself in pockets of society that are removed from 's a cooler full of beer back there, help yerself!!" Yessir! He only took me 15 or so miles down, but Imainstream'll say, in my America and finding out what local life to this point, is for others. I have felt no better feeling: also enjoy backpacking through national parks. sun on your face, wind whipping through your hair, soaring down the Texas freeway Zion in the bed of a total stranger's truck, with a cold beer Utah and Grand Teton in handWyoming are my favorites to date. At that point,  I'd only been out of the Navy for am on hitchhiking hiatus now due to being a monthfull-time student, and but I realized I had achieved a complete 180* turn in life. THIS was freedomfully intend on resuming sooner or later.