When I was younger, I hitchhiked everywhere. Most of my rides were run-of-the-mill. Some, however, were anything but. This is the first in what I plan to be a series of stories of my life On the Road.
On one memorable trip I was hitching down route 2, west of Boston. I was a sophomore at Keene State, in Keene, NH. My trip had started in Keene. I was lucky enough to get picked up by an older guy who was driving from Keene to Gardner, MA. He dropped me off at route 2 in Gardner.
It was 1980. I was about 5'9" and weighed about 130 pounds soaking wet. I wore my straight brown hair parted in the middle and down to just above my shoulders. I kept it clean. I was dressed in a golf shirt and khakis. In other words, there was nothing about me that said "scary" to anyone willing to take a chance picking up a kid. In those days, it wasn't hard to get a ride. You just had to make yourself presentable.
In short order a woman in a pickup truck picked me up. She scolded me in a motherly tone about hitchhiking and carried me past Leominster.
Route 2 from Gardner to Boston is at times a two-lane road and at times a two- or four-lane highway separated by a grass median. When she left me off, I was on the east-bound side of the single lane road; the west-bound side was on the other side of a wide greenway. I had just gotten myself situated when I noticed a yellow Gremlin cruise by on the west-bound side of the road. The kid driving (he didn't look much older than me) glanced at me as he drove by, and our eyes locked for a brief second. I didn't give it a second thought until about 5 minutes later when I saw the same yellow Gremlin coming towards me on the east-bound side of the road.
The car pulled up beside me. The passenger-side window was down. The driver smiled and asked me where I was going. "I'm trying to get to Boston," I told him. "Well," he said, "I'm just driving around so I'll take you some of the way there."
I thanked him, opened the door, put my small backpack on the floor of the front seat and jumped in. He pulled onto the road. It was about 80 degrees and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. He had Dark Side of the Moon playing through his car speakers, the bulky 8-track sticking out from the middle of the dashboard. I stretched out my legs as we started to move forward.
Within just a couple of minutes I happened to glance down at his lap. He was wearing a pair of cut-off blue jeans. They were cut close to his crotch. I did a double-take because I wasn't sure what I was really seeing: A fairly long cock was lying astride his left thigh.
"Ah," I said, "do you know your dick is showing?"
He looked down (as if he didn't know!) and then looked at me: "I don't wear underwear so that happens sometimes," he said, "does it bother you?"
"No," I stammered. "Not at all." And it didn't. While at 19 I still believed I was straight, I'd already had a couple of gay experiences--enough to know that I enjoyed the feel of a guy's lips around my cock and also enjoyed doing a little sucking myself.
We drove on listening to the music and making small talk. I stole glances at his cock--probably enough to let him know that I was more than ok with it being out.
After about 20 minutes of driving, he told me he had to take a piss. Ok, I said. We drove along a bit until he found a cut out at the side of the road and he pulled over. The cut out was bordered on the right by dense trees. He got out and walked around my side of the car. "Coming?" he asked, with a hint of a smile.
I studied him through the open window. I think he was probably a couple of years older than me, in his early twenties. He had curly hair and was dark complected. He had told me his mother and father were both from Portugal, so that explained his complexion, which was a dark olive shade. Like me, he was clean shaven. And like me he had on a clean golf shirt. As mentioned, he had on a pair of very short denim cut-offs. Later in the 80's they would become known as "Daisy Dukes" but at that time that term hadn't yet been coined. They were shorter than any shorts I'd ever wear.
He was about 6 feet tall and, like me, thin.
He had brown eyes and big, full lips. His teeth were bright white when he smiled, and he smiled a lot.