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　　cars? Why can’t they take the coach or the train?

　　Three­quarters of the UK population have

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　　a car；many of the

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　　will be quite old.The potential hitchhiking population is therefore small.

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　　my trip proves it’s still possible to hitchhike.The people who picked me up were very interesting lawyer，retired surgeon，tank commander，carpenter，man who live in an isolated farmhouse and a couple

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　　in the mountains.My conclusion is that only really interesting people are mad enough to pick up fat blokes (家伙) in red，spotted scarves.Most just wanted to do someone a good turn；a few said they were so surprised to see a hitchhiker that they couldn’t help

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　　.

　　The future of hitchhiking most

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　　lies with car­sharing organized over the Internet，via sites such as hitchhikers.org.But for now，you can still stick your thumb out (actually，I didn’t do much of that，

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　　just to hold up my destination sign) and people—wonderful，caring，sharing，unafraid people—will stop.

　　In the UK，with its cheap

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　　and reasonable rail service，I don’t think I’ll make a habit of it.But having enjoyed it so much，I’m ready now to do a big trip

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