Adventurous Quote by Tom Brokaw

When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.

— John Prendergast

When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was…

— John Oates

I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick…

— John Waters

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found…

— John Lee Hooker

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

— Michael Dirda

My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I…

— Bo Derek

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

— Ann Bancroft

I really didn't have any bad hitchhiking experiences. The only bad experiences were standing by the road for 10 hours. I never thought I'd…

— John Waters

I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour - on and off the field.

— Charles Woodson

I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.

— Brice Marden

I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.

— Tom Bodett

I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that…

— Candace Bushnell