Memories that could be poems:

I spent many of my immediate post-high-school years with a thumb in the air looking for travel opportunity back and forth between Odessa, TX and Orange County, CA. It was sometimes slow going, it was mostly stopwatch quick. But don't think I traveled I-10. Those cars & trucks mostly couldn't and so mostly didn't ever stop for thumbs in the air. From Odessa, I went to Andrews and then to Carlsbad and then, often along Hwy 66, the best way I could to CA. And mostly retraced steps back.