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Does anyone on here do it? Please tell me about it. I want to find out what to expect before I do. I'm not going yet, but I might next year, depending on what happens with my current situation. I just finished school & right now I'm living in a sort of artist commune. A bunch of friends and I put together an independent TV studio, and we're living in it and making a TV show, hoping it will sell to a network, but living on zero income until it does or we have to get other jobs. I dumpster dive for dinner and love it! I also bike everywhere. So that's why this question came up. If I have to leave I will be going from the east to the west coast, and I want to bike it. I have a book on bike camping & I can get the equipment. I know I can dumpster some supplies on the way, to keep living cost down. I can also try to rustle up money on the go- I'll definitely be filling sketchbooks on the way- I sometimes do public caricature art- and I've sold shit like CD's and even dumpstered goods on ebay through public libraries. Hows that sound?

― sucka (sucka), Friday, 5 September 2003 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

pretty good!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 5 September 2003 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Look out for Brian Dennehy, though. And try not to be a Vietnam vet.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 September 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Impossible to do those two things at once.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 5 September 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Therein lies the conundrum of First Blood (which I just watched toyesterday, see.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 September 2003 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

He didn't get either of those right!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 5 September 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

See?

Wait, that's not so much a conundrum, really.

Okay, but the moral is still clear.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 September 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you paying attention, sucka?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 5 September 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I have quite a few friends who have done this in canada. Mostly it is a part time thing though (summer time). A group of them hang out in squamish,BC. spending them entire spring and summer months climbing, biking and seeing who can live off the least amount of money each day. This includes alot of dumpster diving. They got pretty good atit, they said it was all about timing. The best Pizza place in town closed up shop at 2am, so if they showed up a little after 2:30 they got still hot pizza for the taking. I'd say hell, sucka if you got a craving for the adventure and have some means to support your self go for it.Just make sure you are prepared for the un-prepareable and you should be just fine.

― danielle g. (danielle g.), Friday, 5 September 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

You only die once.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 5 September 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I just quit my job and am planning to do a bit of this over the next three months myself. Seems like biking is a tough way to do it though. Once you get off the east coast, and especially over the Appalachians, the distances between places are pretty great, even in a car. Amtrak has a deal where you pay 300 or so and you get a pass that's good across the country. Not sure for how long, a couple months I think?

― calstars (calstars), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

how do you sell on ebay on public libraries? i've tried this with no luck.

― kephm, Friday, 5 September 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend of mine did this for 5 years. He's alive and in Sunburned Hand of the Man.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I've done this. Did it for about 4 years in the mid-to-late nineties. I mean, I would work in one place for a few months and then move along. Move along. It was very romantic and idyllic. Except for the sleeping in porn theatres and not really meeting any chicks in the hobo jungle.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 5 September 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck ya! I don't remember what the hell Rambo's conundrum is but I can skin a deer with my bare teeth, so I'm not worried! Porn theater sleeping- woah man... I don't know about that.... I didn't even get the job at the one I tried to work at one time, I just got followed by perverts, so I don't know... about selling on ebay at the public library, I don't think there should be any difference from doing it at home except if it has security measures. Thats probably the only thing that would mess you up & dunno what you can do about it. Net cafe? Anyways, Thanks dudes.

― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 6 September 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I had some friends who hitchhiked from Kentucky out to the West Coast and back one summer. They said it was pretty fun but make sure you're not afraid of relying on the kindness of strangers.

― hstencil, Saturday, 6 September 2003 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)

shit. so much for a stranger being a friend you haven't met and all that other bullshit.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 6 September 2003 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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