ht, I think the mice are getting @ the trap and setting it off w/o being caught. I built me a box for it, but have one more trap I may try something else with. By the way, in the '90s it "might" have been safer, but I was being told that samething by guys who were thumbin' in the 70s. I always walk, I hardly ever sit and waited for a ride. I'm gonna git there if I had to walk. I pick up hikers today, but usually only if they are walking and thumbing. I hitched all through Quebec up to Sept Tials(sp.) and back to Indiana and again all through Costa Rica in 1996 from one side to the other and back, North to South in a month. Got robbed twice, once on each coast. Once on the gulf side by knife point and once on Pacific side by a local while I was "preoccupied" by a lady in my buddy's cabina. I ended up getting to know the guy who robbed me and getting all my stuff back that time.
Live Your Life Brother, CHEERS, and watch out for them local girls,
dpgratz