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Hitchhike back from the Newport Jazz Festival with my high school g/f then freshman year college roomate. We went to the Festival in 71 don't know WHY I went I am not a jazz fan but I suppose then I was out with the posse. So she and I rode up to RI with a bunch of our friends in 2 different cars, during the weekend we all got separated - have to admit we were all drinking, smoking pot and some were doing LSD, not me, I always felt I was already on a trip in life 
so time to go she and I met up and we didn't want to ride back with our friends because they were all loaded on something and so we decided to hitch, so we did, we got picked up by a bunch of guys in an old Woodie type vehicle with peace signs and stuff on the car..sooooo the guys say, there were 4 of them, they were on acid, and that they were going to stop and put the back seat of the car down so there was more 'room' in the car, now my friend and I look at each like Uh NO.. so we get out and run like hell acoss the open highway to the other side and run down the embankment and my bestie had hurt her foot, she booked.. the guys were yelling and screaming and we waited, it was scary.. so after an hour or so we get up run across the highway and put our Danbury CT sign and eventually a K car stops and it turns out the driver was the bestie of my friends brother both were at Yale law school, he was 3 years older than us, and MAN he yelled at us all the way to Danbury, death, doom, murder, stupid, girls, know better, and he was 21 hahaha, basically I was happy to be alive but I never hitched again. My friend is brilliant and she has a chinese art history degree from Columbia, a masters in architecture from Maryland, a masters in computer science from Yale and a MBS from NYU, she is still brilliant and is a very high level leader at IBM today. I'm lucky I lived when I look back on the crazy, dangerous and wild things I did in the late 60s and early 70s.. it was gREAT fUN! (if either of my sons were doing what I did I would have had a heart attack)..
so time to go she and I met up and we didn't want to ride back with our friends because they were all loaded on something and so we decided to hitch, so we did, we got picked up by a bunch of guys in an old Woodie type vehicle with peace signs and stuff on the car..sooooo the guys say, there were 4 of them, they were on acid, and that they were going to stop and put the back seat of the car down so there was more 'room' in the car, now my friend and I look at each like Uh NO.. so we get out and run like hell acoss the open highway to the other side and run down the embankment and my bestie had hurt her foot, she booked.. the guys were yelling and screaming and we waited, it was scary.. so after an hour or so we get up run across the highway and put our Danbury CT sign and eventually a K car stops and it turns out the driver was the bestie of my friends brother both were at Yale law school, he was 3 years older than us, and MAN he yelled at us all the way to Danbury, death, doom, murder, stupid, girls, know better, and he was 21 hahaha, basically I was happy to be alive but I never hitched again. My friend is brilliant and she has a chinese art history degree from Columbia, a masters in architecture from Maryland, a masters in computer science from Yale and a MBS from NYU, she is still brilliant and is a very high level leader at IBM today. I'm lucky I lived when I look back on the crazy, dangerous and wild things I did in the late 60s and early 70s.. it was gREAT fUN! (if either of my sons were doing what I did I would have had a heart attack).. 
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