Category: Across New Zealand in 140 Hitches

  • Across New Zealand in 140 Hitches

    Across New Zealand in 140 Hitches

    Hitchhiking is an intense, deeply personal way to explore a country. Anyone and everyone can pick you up, and you naturally collate all this information into a demographic portrait. I revisited the list published in Renegade by writing three line poems to expand on each hitch. It’s amazing how much I can remember…

  • The List: New Zealand in 140 Hitches

    NZ Renegade This is my diary of a trip I undertook in 2010, in which I hitchhiked and camped across New Zealand over several months. I wrote a sentence about everybody who picked me up. I experimented afterwards with ways to develop the idea, ranging from collaborations with local photographers…

  • The Key to the Marae

    KeytoMarae This is an article I had in Traveller Magazine in the run up to the publication of Across New Zealand in 140 Hitches. The hitch took place in Gisborne towards the end of my trip, and it holds a special place in my memory because of the way Harry, Scruffy Mullet and…

I'm Clyde Macfarlane, an NCTJ qualified journalist and illustrator.

I draw using marker pen on card. I specialise in music and travel feature writing, and in 2009 I won a Guardian Media Award. In 2018 my poetry book, Across New Zealand in 140 Hitchhikes, was published by Paekakariki Press.

San Francisco Pride: 1978