Thumbs Up Australia - Hitchhiking the Outback

Author Tom Parry contacted us a few weeks ago about promoting his new book, Thumbs Up Australia - Hitchhiking the Outback and sent us a few copies to give away to our digihitch members. It's a good read about a British bloke and his French girlfriend who wing it down under for a season, meeting the locals and tramping through Outback towns that most people just breeze by in busses.

With all the winter travelers heading south, we decided to do a southbound for the winter theme on the digihitch frontpage, with special listings of all the places lo-budget travelers go, including Mexico, Southwest USA, Southeast Asia and, of course- Australia. Parry also offered up a Australia hitchhiking description for our pages.

We added some winter travel book recommendations in our digihitch aStore - check em out!

Look for more word about the giveaway on digihitch this week. We also have hitchhiking books by Irv Thomas, Kinga Freespirit and Joe Mack to gift to a few lucky travelers. You may not be able to pack em all for the road, but they're good off-road reading.