31.   Did you know Nicolas Cage threw up on his prom date and had to hitch a ride home?

32.   Did it enter by way of an infected traveler, by infected mosquitoes that hitched a ride on a plane or ship?

33.   Even today, it sometimes travels by hitching a ride with other potted plants.

34.   For example, Pressler, who grew up with the country club set in Houston, had to hitch rides to church on Sunday nights.

35.   Fred Lorz strode in first, but was disqualified after sheepishly admitting he hitched a ride from a passing truck for most of the race.

36.   Frustrated with the wait and hoping to be of more assistance on-site, Dr. Andrew Feldman, an orthopaedic surgeon, hitched a ride with police Tuesday morning.

37.   He had hitched a ride on a military flight back across the Atlantic.

38.   He is hoping to hitch a ride aboard a Soyuz capsule that is scheduled to visit the International Space Station in October.

39.   He made regular trips back to Boston for chemotherapy, often hitching a ride with his uncle, a truck driver.

40.   He remembers flying to Spokane in a prop plane with Wayne Golf Club pro Bob Connolly, staying at the Ridpath Hotel and hitching rides to Manito.