Hitching a memory to times gone by
Hitching a memory to times gone by By Opinion By Joubert Malherbe I used to love that catchy 70s song by Vanity Fair that went: âA thumb goes up/a car goes by/gotta get back home/to my babyâs sideâ¦â In my younger days, heavily influenced by iconoclastic songs and films like Easy Rider, I thought the pinnacle of achievement for me would be to hitch from Pretoria to somewhere like Cape Town. Familial concerns about the safety aspect of such an enterprise ensured that I never did anything as daring in the travel stakes â except, of course, skipping the country in the 80s...
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