Belgium was one stop along a hitchhiking adventure Rachel once took. My friend Ruth and I take the subway to the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain, then plop our backpacks down by the edge of the main ...

Most summers since I was 17, I’ve gone hitchhiking. In California, at 19, I rode with a stuntman who estimated he’d sustained 50 concussions. A few years later, in Utah, a young man said God told him ...