Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Hitchhiking

Interstate 55 near Edwardsville
Photograph by Tom Atwood
When I was 22 I hitchhiked across Europe, and flew back to New York for $95 on Freddy Laker's Skytrain. I had $7 in my pocket when I got off the plane at Kennedy Airport. Just enough money to get a bus out of the city along with a firefighter from Scotland that I met standing in line for the flight in London. He was going to hitchhike across America, and spent his first night in the USA with me, sleeping outside along Interstate 95 in New Jersey. This is what it looked like that night, except for the cell phone tower. Exposure: 30 seconds; Aperture: f/7.1; ISO: 200; Focal length: 18 mm.

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