Has anyone here ever hitchhiked?

[doug.goodman]

I used to occasionally hitchhike the 30 miles one way home from my junior college classes, depending on the schedule of the guy I sometimes rode to school with.

My most memorable attempt at hitchhiking was during what those of us who were there like to call "Doug's Big Adventure".

Short version - I was on tour with a band in Europe in 1985, and woke up in the back seat of a random car the morning after a show in Ridderkerk, The Netherlands. After making my way back to the venue that the band had performed in the previous night, only to find that nobody was there (not a surprise really, since the show had ended 12+ hours prior), I was attempting to hitchhike to Amsterdam (location of the show the next day) when the Dutch police stopped to inform me that hitchhiking was illegal in Holland. So I took the train.

Let my adventure be a lesson for those of you who plan to get completely stoned out of your mind on Turkish black hash (which has been known to have a hallucinatory effect on some) for the first (and maybe only) time in your life : don't wander off on your own...

Doug "now I'm tempted to hitchhike to spring training" Goodman

[ocjack]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Let my adventure be a lesson for those of you who plan to get completely stoned out of your mind on Turkish black hash (which has been known to have a hallucinatory effect on some) for the first (and maybe only) time in your life : don't wander off on your own...

What if the last 36 years were a hallucination and it's still 1985? Things that make you go "hmmmmm."

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by ocjack

What if the last 36 years were a hallucination and it's still 1985? Things that make you go "hmmmmm."

The last 378 days will have been a pretty boring hallucination though...

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

I used to occasionally hitchhike the 30 miles one way home from my junior college classes, depending on the schedule of the guy I sometimes rode to school with.

My most memorable attempt at hitchhiking was during what those of us who were there like to call "Doug's Big Adventure".

Short version - I was on tour with a band in Europe in 1985, and woke up in the back seat of a random car the morning after a show in Ridderkerk, The Netherlands. After making my way back to the venue that the band had performed in the previous night, only to find that nobody was there (not a surprise really, since the show had ended 12+ hours prior), I was attempting to hitchhike to Amsterdam (location of the show the next day) when the Dutch police stopped to inform me that hitchhiking was illegal in Holland. So I took the train.

Let my adventure be a lesson for those of you who plan to get completely stoned out of your mind on Turkish black hash (which has been known to have a hallucinatory effect on some) for the first (and maybe only) time in your life : don't wander off on your own...

Doug "now I'm tempted to hitchhike to spring training" Goodman

We have time, lets hear the long version.

I have a lot of stories from the Netherlands. I would have WAY more but I can't remember too much from then.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by bnorth

We have time, lets hear the long version.

I have a lot of stories from the Netherlands. I would have WAY more but I can't remember too much from then.

Ha! The long version involves monkeys, the car I woke up in being parked in the middle of the street with the engine running, a Dutch guy in his tighty whities, an empty school with a window that wasn't closed correctly, a crazed groupie, Beverly Hills Cop in Dutch, pinball, and the drummer touching my arm while saying "dude, we thought she killed you..."

According to the issue of Aardshock magazine that had a write up on the tour (and my picture) I was attempting to hitchhike to Los Angeles, but it's in Dutch so I can't actually read it, and I wasn't.