<p><span style="color: rgb(87, 87, 87);">In the summer of 1978, Griffin-Nolan and a friend took to the road, hitchhiking from New York to California, on to New Orleans and back home to New York. As 2018 approached, the itch to hitch returned-but most people seemed to believe that this was now impossible. Griffin-Nolan decided to find out </span><em style="color: rgb(87, 87, 87);">why</em><span style="color: rgb(87, 87, 87);"> nobody hitchhiked anymore. With a backpack, a hashtag, and a sign, he stuck out his thumb near his house, and let luck, and the road, take him where it would. </span><em style="color: rgb(87, 87, 87);">Nobody Hitchhikes Anymore </em><span style="color: rgb(87, 87, 87);">is an "act of loving rebellion" (Sean Kirst, </span><em style="color: rgb(87, 87, 87);">Buffalo News</em><span style="color: rgb(87, 87, 87);">) and a travelogue about a changing society and the people who lifted him up.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>