Jul 25, 2013 | Traveling on Trust | Blog post
I’ve had many “first experiences” in these past weeks. Seeing the North Dakota oil fields, sleeping in a semi truck, riding in a car going a hundred and ten miles per hour for half an hour. But the most unexpected was whitewater rafting. Outside...
Jul 22, 2013 | Traveling on Trust | Blog post
I had my first group hitchhiking experience of the trip with two Colorado Trail thru-hikers and a crazy man. I met the hikers in Buena Vista, a town shadowed by fourteeners and well trafficked by rafting companies. The two brothers, Brian and Seth, had hitchhiked into...
Jul 18, 2013 | Traveling on Trust | Blog post
Norton, Kansas Established: Feb. 26, 1867 2010 population: 2,928 Julie Winters had a good life. Good enough to feel guilty about, she said, then added, “I’m paying for it now.” That morning, like every morning, she visited her husband. They married...
Jul 17, 2013 | Traveling on Trust | Blog post
A sheriff’s truck pulled into the nearby lot, and a cop got out. He was young, with short, military-style hair. “Hello!” I put my thumb down and rolled up my sign. “How’re you?” He nodded. “You’re technically...
Jul 15, 2013 | Traveling on Trust | Blog post
I was hungry and sunburnt and stuck at a truck stop metropolis in northwest Indiana when I met Glen. In the two and a half hours prior, a woman going the wrong way offered me a ride, a cop checked if I was a runaway, and a dad and son asked about my story when I...
Jul 15, 2013 | Traveling on Trust | In the News
On June 20th of this year, a twenty-two-year-old man and graduate from Calvin College of Grand Rapids, Michigan left Mt. Vernon, Washington on an adventure of a lifetime.
Jul 11, 2013 | Traveling on Trust | In the News
Josh deLacy has long had an appetite for adventure. Read...
Jul 2, 2013 | Traveling on Trust | In the News
Josh deLacy is hitch-hiking his way across the back roads of America, in an effort to learn about small towns. He started last month in Washington and has ended up in Michigan.
Jul 1, 2013 | Traveling on Trust | Blog post
I lost my sign. My beautiful sailcloth and housepaint sign. Passengers would see it and smile; kids in the opposite lane would twist around to read the lettered side. More than half my drivers mentioned it, and many said it was the reason they stopped. But in...
Jun 29, 2013 | Traveling on Trust | Blog post
The highways can surprise you. Just off two-lane MI-28, for instance, well away from so much as a gas station, I found a sculpture park, quirky and free and controversial. Lakenenland, named after its creator, is unaffiliated with any city or artist collective. It is...
