on the road again!
I'm on the road again! Today has been incredible. I arrived by train late last night, picked up from the train station by a random last-minute Denver CouchSurfer whose profile I had not yet seen. She turned out to be a *phenomenal* host. A social worker who teaches developmentally disabled children, she also knows how to have fun and has wonderfully open-minded and yet seriously down-to-earth friends. I spent the morning hanging out with Beau, a fellow hitchhiker. He made it from Dallas to Denver in 15 hours, a feat I don't think I could manage. He has learned tips and tricks from a guy named Aaron Bell, who organized a hitchhiking *race* recently, from Dallas to... somewhere. Carolinas, maybe? Anyway, the teams were of 3 people, and Bell and friends tied for first at 16 hours. Beau was only a couple *days* behind. Bell says two lanes maximum, as the risk-takers (presumably who pick up hitchhikers) will be in the fast lane and won't want to merge more than a lane o...