page_title: Hitchhiking
hierarchical_section_title: Hitchhiking
caption_attribution_description: English: Image by Walker Evans Hitchhidkers Vicksburg (vicinity) March 1936.
context_page_description: Hitchhiking is a means of transportation that is gained by asking individuals, usually strangers, for a ride in their car or other vehicle. The ride is usually, but not always, free.
  Itinerants have also used hitchhiking as a primary mode of travel for the better part of the last century, and continue to do so today.
context_section_description: Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing or hitching) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking individuals, usually strangers, for a ride in their car or other vehicle. The ride is usually, but not always, free.
  Itinerants have also used hitchhiking as a primary mode of travel for the better part of the last century, and continue to do so today.
caption: A man and woman hitchhiking near Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1936, photograph by Walker Evans
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