Hitch

There’s a particular kind of travel that starts with not owning a car.

Sometimes it’s a thumb on a slip road. More often now it’s a carpool app, an overnight coach, a rail pass, or a lift arranged by someone who was driving that way anyway. The tools changed; the underlying thing — moving a long way for very little, and meeting people you otherwise wouldn’t — didn’t.

Hitch is about doing that well: what the law actually looks like where you’re going, how to make good judgements about a ride, the etiquette that makes drivers stop again for the next person, and the unglamorous logistics of covering distance without a car.

We’re careful about two things. We never tell you a specific place’s law — that changes and you must check it locally. And we never pretend the risk is zero. Everything else, we’ll say plainly.