Ballo and his friend hitchhiked
from Sayreville to Huntington
Beach, California a few days after
graduation. They stayed there for
about a month until they ran out
of money and decided to return
home, reaching Yuma, Arizona at
the end of their first day thumbing
rides.
“At the end of the night, we went
to sleep in our sleeping bags in
the desert,” recalled Ballo. “We
wake up in the morning and start
hitchhiking again. A guy pulls
over and, just as we did for every
car, we walked up to the car, stuck
our head in there to see what was
going on. The guy had his window rolled down and he asked
us if we had any money. We said
that we didn’t, that we were broke,
and I could tell that he was broke.
He thought for a second and then
said “come on in.”
Once Ballo gets in the car, he notices that there’s no key in the ignition — only wires hanging out. This
gave them a funny feeling, but being experienced hitchhikers, they
knew how to roll with it.
“The first thing is a ride is a ride,”
explained Ballo. “We’d taken
shady rides before and its part
of the game. You just take rides
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