I have an idea for the freighthopping dilemma. "Passenger freighters". Get together a bunch of boxcars or cattle cars, put in a restroom, and allow people to pitch tents and sleeping bags and other stuff. Put food in a corner and resupply food and other goods every once in a while, served in a market or restaurant. If passengers are into gallows humor, give them a fake number tattoo and use a barbed-wire decoration on the car. (However, those last two items would probably get the Anti Defamation League riled up, because of Holocaust implications.) (If one is really stupid, he/she can also dress employees up as Nazis, but that's going too far. Hippies are more American and they also rode boxcars, right?