This family told me they knew a really good place for hitchhiking in the city, and that they would drop me off there, so I decided to trust them and ride to Reno. By allowing people to help us, and giving back in the ways that we could, we had these short, intense, transformative relationships with people. I got a ride with some good friends to Northern California, and early the next morning, they let me off on the side of the road.

I put down my sleeping bag and slept for about an hour, but I didn’t want to miss the train so I got up.I have learnt from this that no matter what situation you are in, people are always willing to help when you are in need. So I still hitchhike as a form of activism, because I feel like I probably have more ability to hold my own in the face of injustice than most people who hitchhike. In the car, McGillvary claimed McBride boasted of having raped a fourteen-year-old girl in the Virgin Islands while on a business trip.

A year or two later on a cold December day, my uncle was having coffee in a cafe with my future aunt when he caught something on the TV that made his blood run cold.When a female bystander arrived on the scene to help the stricken worker, McBride attacked her in a bear hug. Probably the scariest experience was when I hitchhiked to Missoula for my sister’s wedding, and got stuck in Pocatello both coming and going. Not to mention, the history brought in the modern age, as expansive as it appears, continues to become suppressed in the coming years. Walking from place to place and accepting rides from strangers allows you to experience things you’d never encounter if you were traveling by plane or car. I translated to English immediately, because the truck driver became agitated and suspicious of what I was saying, and I explained that we are really tired and our plan is to find "our" truck drivers before he has to take the long break, so that we can go on travelling without interruption.