After graduating from Arizona State College in 1953, Dick Jacobs was working as a graduate assistant towards a path in teaching and coaching. Hoping to fulfill a dream of hitchhiking around the world, he instead gathered a few belongings in a small suitcase, took his life savings of three hundred dollars, said goodbye to his buddies, stepped off the curb onto College Avenue in Tempe, Arizona, and stuck out his thumb. Surviving loneliness, hunger,...