Hitchhiking contexts
Feel free to add contexts you feel may potentially blend in your hitchhiking experiences, or give a description of the experience of your feelings according to such contexts.
Feel free to edit and re-arrange the classifications...
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The hike as the message ?
or, the medium as message
Mc Luhan, "The Medium is the message"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message_(phrase)
"Experiencing the hike for the hike, in every present moment"
"bing" - "enlightenment" - "the self-realized guru in his hitchhiking open-cave present moment dimensionality"
Time
- No specific time for arrival
- Specific time of arrival
Aim
Aimful
example:
- hitchhiking to meet loved ones
- hitchhiking with a loved one as to get to know each other better
- hitchhiking to meet unknown friends
- hitchhiking with a direction
- hitchhiking with a cause
- hitchhiking with a cause and direction
Aimless
ex:
- burn-out hitchhiking
http://hitchwiki.org/en/Aimless_trajectory
- hitchhiking by default as no other options become visible to one's confusion after a relationship breakup
- hitchhiking by default when out of money and options
Semi-aimless / Aimful aimless trajectory
ex:
- "hitchhiking nonstop and without destination through Paris during a transportation strike in the name of adding to the confusion"
reference : Theory of the Derive, Nomadic Trajectories - pdf
- hitching without burn-out, experience talking to drivers
- watching landscape
More Situations
with various aimful, aimless, timely and random potential :
- On the road to http://hitchgathering.org
Initially non-intended hitchhiking :
- Car breakdown
- Bus breakdown
- Flight disruptions due to Volcanic ash ?
- Being kidnapped after playing "The Game" and wanting to return to your Manor house.