When you set the intention to hitchhike across the United States, you also agree to bare witness to the many unpredictable splendors that this great nation has to offer. These splendors laid before me in the form of 50 rides happening within 40 days of my thumbing it through the USA. Along my way encountering a crack-smoking driver in the outskirts of Atlanta, getting a pedicure in a Eugene, Oregon mall, and listening to Tupac in a van with a Chinese Family of six.