Hitchhiker’s Guide to Street View
Friday, 23rd January 2009 by James Turnbull
U.S Route 64 is a mostly-unexciting 2,326 mile-long highway that we join as it travels from Taos to Farmington in New Mexico.
As we drive through the barren desert, with nothing for miles around, the monotony is broken by the sight of a hitchhiker, who optimistically sticks his thumb out for the passing camera car.
But our cruel driver cruises on past, while heartlessly documenting this man's plight from all angles.
As we drive off into the distance, with no other cars to be seen for miles, the man doubtless vows that he'll only ever use Live Search from now on...
Thanks to Rob.
Dude, there’s a truck that’s going in the other direction that passes the streetview car.
So there is!
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=36.523984,-105.760918&z=13&layer=c&cbll=36.518402,-105.760565&cbp=1,353.1696441758293,,0,5.487882558869323
But it’s going the wrong way 😀
As you wrote, it’s in the middle of nowhere. How did this person get there in the first place? If he has walked for several km’s already, he can walk a few more…
BTW, nearby is quite an impressive bridge over the Rio Grande: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=36.483969,-105.733624&z=13&layer=c&cbll=36.476444,-105.733197&cbp=1,12.03314917127119,,0,17.928176795580104
The side road where the he is hitching from leads off to Earthship Biotectures, an experimental subdivision where residents are trying to live ‘sustainably’. Perhaps that also means they don’t have cars.
http://extension.ucdavis.edu/unit/green_building_and_sustainability/pdf/resources/earthship.pdf
You would think that if you were going to travel down such a desolate path that you might make a plan of some kind.