11.   At the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border, they hitched a ride with a trucker who arrived with them in New Castle, Ind., before dawn Monday.

12.   Beyond that was the affront of Bush trying to hitch a ride on the memory of someone who would not have been caught dead in a GOP focus group.

13.   Before they turn the lights out in California, try to hitch a ride.

14.   A crab has hitched a ride under its umbrella.

15.   A buddy will sometimes hitch a ride, seated sideways on the rear-wheel rack.

16.   A local Albanian who had hitched a ride with the crew was taken off for questioning.

17.   A decade ago, he first sounded out the Russians about hitching a ride, but the attempted coup that almost overthrew Mikhail Gorbachev dashed his hopes.

18.   A Secret Service employee aboard the plane was hitching a ride to New York.

19.   Actually, Charlie had hitched a ride to Birmingham, where he planned to buy a bus ticket to take him home.

20.   After a little smooth talking, Reeves was allowed to hitch a ride to the festival with the band Canned Heat.