Hitchhiking, A Destiny

Dell Franklin, as a young, restless Army veteran feeling the urge to escape a confining world and his owntormented soul, depicts hitchhiking as an exhilarating recklessness, an art form, a plunge into theunknown, a compilation of experiences along the road and at destinations—a riverboat on the MississippiRiver, a resort in the Borscht Belt, a Mexican border town whorehouse, a pub in Ireland, and the humanityand generosity of strangers. Come listen to him talk to you in a conversational prose that flows by like atrain on constantly shifting tracks.He is the author of memoirs, “Life On The Mississippi, 1969,” and “The Ball Player's Son,” has writtencreated journalism and opinion for New Times, Easy Reader, Coldtype, and currently pens a biweeklycolumn for Cal Coast News in San Luis Obispo County in California, where he does his best to agitatethose gentrifying his beloved beach town, Cayucos.