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...

The hike is 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)

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

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.