hitchhike

They started to move east — “hundreds of thousands of men, women, children, and babies ... walking, hitchhiking, hopping freights,” as Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen reported in their 2004 book about the Bonus Army.

It took Paul Simon four days to hitchhike from Saginaw, or so he sang in America, his iconic soundscape ballad of the 1960s with its lost souls on the highways of a country in flux.

Nicole and I back in the day used to hitchhike down to the beach.

Following its evolution, the German cockroach spread from Southeast Asia, hitchhiking around the world in association with humans.

They traveled west to the Middle East about 1,200 years ago, perhaps hitchhiking in soldiers’ breadbaskets.