Rules of Hitchhiking

With the humid summer weather slowly fading into temperatures fit for humans to move around in, it’s finally approaching the time of the year when couples young and old will be taking advantage of the cheaper highway tolls and getting out on the road. Which means plenty of ride opportunities for the adventurous hitchhiker to [...]
Road, Trip

Things are getting bad: Family problems, money, the itch, again. Should Manny Santiago end it now or revisit The Trip, and try to work it all out?
Without a Hitch

I never start off well. Shaky & ineffectual, I felt like a thumbless leper vacillating there by the Tenjin expressway entrance with my kindergarten-level kanji scrawled across the cardboard I’d heisted some minutes before reading, “Karatsu”. There should have been a question mark. I was unsure. Naked. Just me and my cardboard cock fishing in [...]
