Calling herself Sarah, she joins drifters in hitching train rides. There are real hitching posts all round town to tie up your horses. The original courthouse was a wooden structure which had hitching posts for horses in front. Cow ponies, tied to hitching posts, lined the sandy Main Street. Both men were chained to the hitching post. When hitching to another rope, Ashley and other sources suggest #1735 is more secure. Groomsmen were often used as hitching posts. He admired the fact that Zaphod was ""hitching the hard way"". Christopher Dunne and Emma Hitching appear as Jim's parents. Allan recruited a fellow journalist, Francis Hitching, as producer. Turner married his cousin, Alice Elizabeth Hitching, on 31 August 1883. The observation level featured a lounge/restaurant called the "Hitching Post".