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Used to live in New Zealand, where hitch hiking is fairly common. People see a guy in his twenties with his thumb out, and instead of thinking "psycho", they think "trying to get home to visit mom". I got rides with a priest, a police man, a mom with her two young kids in the car, the CEO of the national electric company... the list goes on. Met some great people. Got invited into their homes for dinner. But that was New Zealand. The US is a much bigger and much less trustworthy nation.
I don't hitch myself here, and I pretty much only pick up people in ski towns on the way to the mountain. In Snowmass, if you have 4 or more people, you don't have to pay to park at the base of the hill so a hitch hiker or two can be a real money saver.
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