Not hitch hiking per se, but when I was living in Mexico for my last semester of college a guy passing in a car saw me out walking and offered to give me a ride. He dropped me off at my destination which was a few blocks away and that was that.

The glory days when every tech generation felt like a rocket-powered slingshot into the future.

“Graphics can’t possibly get any better than this!” —Me about the N64

I’m mostly on the 20 meter band myself. There’s an active packet community on 14.105 LSB.

Am I the only one who didn’t think that story was very funny? Sure haha poop and all but it’s achieved legendary status that I don’t get.

A handheld 2 way radio. The cell network is the first to go even before a disaster since the lines saturate with people calling out.