Dear reader, I need your help.
It’s a bit of a strange ask, but bear with me OK?
Right now, as you may know, I’m on a mission to hitchhike from Scotland to India.
My sponsors, Innis& Gunn, have set me the awesome challenge, and they want me to do it in no more than six weeks!
Quite a task. I don’t mind admitting I’m feeling the pressure.
There is one loophole though: they never specified what sort of vehicles I could hitch in…
So here’s what I’m thinking of doing, to save a bit of time and make my schedule a bit more relaxed: I’m gonna try and hitchhike an aeroplane.
Crazy idea?
Wait, I’m not done explaining yet. It gets crazier.
Flying economy blows.
No leg room. No sleep. Tiny little glasses of wine watered down with Dr Peppers or denture rinse or something.
Jammed in there with two hundred other sweating irritable primates, like a boiled pea in a can of vegetarian sandwich meat.
Fuck that.
I have a dream.
It’s not a noble dream. It isn’t profound, or virtuous. But it is silly, and therefore worth pursuing.
I am a hitchhiking addict. I’ve thumbed my way around the planet for more than a decade.
I’ve ridden on all kinds of vehicles.
Big lumpy horses.
A boat.
Even a Thai ambulance.
But… theres one vehicle class, that so far I have been unable to get a ride in.
A private jet.
Hitchhiking a ride on a jet has been on my list for a while, but it turns out it is quite tricky to do.
I guess I don’t know the right people.
So here is where I need your help.
I want to hitch a ride on a private jet, and I know that if we get this post doing the rounds on Facebook, and Twitter, and whatever, we can hook this up.
It’s six degrees of separation, or something like that.
Somewhere out there, one of you must have a friend who has a friend who has a friend who has shagged Donald Trump or worked for an arms dealer, or done John Travolta’s hair.
Spread the word: I want to be a jet-set hobo!
Share this post with your friends, get the word around! Social media saturation is what we need here.
I want to hitchhike the sky!
Please share this on Facebook and help me make my dream a reality!
