Hitch hiking
Back in the days when I used to hitch hike everywhere there was usually something playing on a tape or radio in some random vehicle that will always remind me of that journey.
It was also a good way to hear new music i wouldnt normally have chosen to listen to myself.
My favourite memory is when i thought I'd hitch from Yorkshire to Dover to see the White cliffs and the start of construction of the tunnel.
Well I had nothing better to do.
On the last part of the journey I asked the driver what he was playing and he told me David Sanborn.
It stuck in my head and I bought a tape when i got there.
Sitting alone on the headland in blazing sunshine with bees buzzing among the wild flowers, larks singing overhead, while watching all this frantic activity going on far below.
Sax in the headphones of my walkman and the sea shining in front of me.
Total bliss.

Got into Talking Heads hitching across Yorkshire to pick shrooms
Anthrax & Prodigy on the way to Southampton
Blur heading into Exmoor to do my first solo wilderness camp 'Country House' in particular
Bach Cello Suite no 1 to Fife

Theres many more but I wont bore you
But after many years I can still remember the journey and where i was going if i hear any of those pieces of music
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:37, 3 replies)

Yeah, me too
Thanks for this - I'll have to do another 'hitching post' now.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Fri 29 Jan 2010, 9:31, closed)

thanks
You are welcome :)
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 29 Jan 2010, 12:42, closed)

Ever Listened to...
Sweet Hitch Hiker, by Creedence Clearwater Revival? No? You Should!
( The Lone Groover has mal des nuts., Fri 29 Jan 2010, 22:23, closed)