american vagabond

srsly guys, click on that link.

let's talk about the LIFESTYLE

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paging nickalicious....ian?

paging dan perry and alex in nyc to hate them

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pix are incredible

comments, as always, make me want to leave the planet to the cockroaches

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what is this dude(?) eating? hot sauce and banana? that's......bananas

I really like these pictures, and I really like this idea.

It is a shame there is 0 chance these folks aren't assholes.

i didn't even bother reading the comments. i don't plan to.

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lol "assholes"

I can think of a few people I know who would prob take to that life pretty well, at least temporarily -- I mean, traveling the world and getting crap jobs in different cities as an adventure isn't much different -- sleeping inside of walls without holes in them seems like a big deal to me but really having no safety net is the more significant extreme. Well, "extreme" to those of us with parents and day jobs and friends with money or whatever.

Personally, though, I need to be showered and fresh at all times.

recently there was a thread about a woman who had written a book flipping out about 'travelers' (they survive by ABUSE and VIOLENCE and LURE TEENS AWAY FROM HOME) but i can't remember her name or the name of the book.

what's with all the pictures of american indie rockers?

they are smelly, filthy, probably on meth/booze, lost, damaged hippies

but i still want to hang with them. like, bad? nb - for whatever reason, i knew at least 3 people at dmouth that did that for a while. and bridget has a buddy from princeton that still does the hobo thing every now and then

-- river wolf, Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:50 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

OMG MAX_R OTM LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

j/k stfu

clean em up a bit = your average college kid

i bet if i introduced myself by my screenname they'd be like "wait, have i met you already?"

this is what 1/2 my friends from high school look like now

Do I want to be homeless and dirty and unsafe and cold and hungry on purpose just to remind myself how to live in the world/recalibrate my perspective? Not really. But the people I know who have a grasp of husting/getting by are some of my favorites and their point of view is v good for me.

One of my top bros S3th once hopped a FREIGHT TRAIN to the RAINBOW GATHERING.

Also: lol @ rw

well yeah, chances are very decent that at least a handful of these ARE "average" college kids, out slumming for a bit. many of them probably not.

the west is full of actual hobos, like dudes that have been doing this for years. my buddy and i befriended one in aspen, co, of all places, and he told us that they had a camp outside of town they moved every now and then (cops), and that most of them had totally separate lives (wives, kids, jobs) before going hobo (ie - they were not from Circumstances, necessarily).

xp omg the rainbow gathering. that should be it's own thread!

i think this is a kind of left-wing version of ruby ridge: absolute off-the-grid-ness as a consuming ideal but with "private property" filed under babylon

people HATE the rainbow gathering. HATE IT.

i've always sort of wanted to go, just to bear witness.

and really, lifestyle aside, these pics are fucking gorgeous. that first esp.

the thing abt these kids is that theyre really fun and terrific in high school but three or four years down the road a lot of them just get sort of boring and narcissistic and self-righteous

ok "gorgeous" isn't the word, but whatever.

otm re: self-righteous.

c.f. thru-hikers

and i LIKE thru-hikers!

They (rainbo gatherers) showed up in the UP once, it's a LOT of hippies.

The people I know who've done the hobo thing are about 60% college kids and 40% vagabond dirtbag punkers.

I could never get into it whenever any of them left on some excursion, I had a job.

Some people in being cool, some in being jerks shockah! I like to think it makes one ingenious, resourceful, scrappy, and pretty okay with any fluctuating level of "worldly" "success". Like when you've been hungry for a while, just being able to grocery shop is like winning the lottery.

I hung out with thru-hikers once or twice. I felt like they didn't like us. :(

One of them called me out for addressing them as "ladies".

ahahahaha

i've always sort of wanted to go, just to bear witness

otm

though i know of the act, i'd never heard the term 'thru-hiker' until today. some friends--decdiely not assholes, just hardcore outdoorsy tyles--have done the whole of the PCH. i wouldn't say i'm jealous, but def respectful

three or four years down the road a lot of them just get sort of boring and narcissistic and self-righteous

cross that out and write in scabby and desperate and permanently changed maybe not in a good way. that's the more likely outcome, from what i've seen

you mean PCT? my friend mike did that a few year's ago. pretty quickly, too! but PCT thru-hikers are a different breed than the appalachian trail thru-hikers (which is who I really meant). PCT is the real-deal, and very long and very remote and hard. the AT gets a lot more amateurs/self-righteous hippies.

i'm jealous! i wanna do it!

haha yeah not pacific coast highway (that walk would SUCK) but pacific coast trail. they had food pick-ups along the way. VERY well-planned. they maybe didn't do the last 50 or so miles in socal.

Yeah, I was on the AT as well. It's MEANT to go through towns and not leave civilization for more than a few days at a time, but I guess, yeah, that means lots of people can front, do not have to subsume self into wilderness to make it.

jerg i think it depends on how deep u get into the "lifestyle"; i do have friends who've become weird shadows of their former selves but way more who've dipped in and out (6-8 mos on the road, then 1 mo at home living with parents or, uh, on my couch and eating my food) and act like mystical buddhist shamans or some bullshit... obv this is all anecdotal

yeah i've seen that side of it too for sure

if we count "on the road" (like hitching and/or living out yr pickup), then i know literally dozens of people that have done that for months at a time, but w/o turning into like scabby meth heads or self-righteous dicks

e.g. ski bums, climbing bums, etc.

any given day in asheville

a guy i knew (not that well) in college, _______, hitched from WA to NH for his freshman year of college. interesting in and of itself, i guess, but _____ has a facial condition that makes his face completely unable to express emotion (like, the muscles don't work....can't smile, frown, etc), which must have made picking up rides, uh, difficult

just fyi

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Good to see she hasn't forgotten the irony that got her here.

way too many facial tattoos/reverse mohawks on these ppl.

I wanted to look like this so, so, so bad in high school but my mom kept making me take baths and dress in an acceptable-for=seminary fashion.

The whole....this...thing always seemed really romantic to me then. I was hanging out at Denny's with buds and sneaking over to other tables to eat unfinished entrees, getting showers at the gym, pulling apples out of trash cans for "practice" when I was sixteen. But having to actually live that life is a humiliating hell, I learned later when I had to live that life to a certain extent. There's this thing called Maslow's heirarchy of human needs...

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oh no no no

ive always kinda wanted to ride around in boxcars for a little while - these pix are not helping tho

when did that theater tech look start to creep into the carhart aesthetic

hot sauce and bananas is good tho

I'm intrigued.

By hot sauce and bananas, not crusty hipsters.

I need to believe that 'possum's for the dog.

These pictures really are amazingly beautiful. As for the actual content, well, I don't know these people, I don't know their reasons for doing what they're doing, but I do get an immense 'slumming it' hipster vibe. And whilst a large part of me would love to experience life the way they look like they do, another part of me is wanting to scream STOP BEING SO PATRONISING MOTHERFUCKERS in their faces. But, to reiterate, pictures = great.

I was unsure whether this was hipster slumming or grown-up-middle-class kids with some kind of social disaffection (not sure if that's the term I'm looking for, the kind of thing that keeps people from holding jobs/going to school very long but milder than being a sociopath), but the face tattoos lead me to think the latter.

They are good photographs. I'd like to see a documentary.

those chicks are nast gnar gnar

in high school my best friend got in a fight with his parents and moved out, telling everyone that he was living in a tent in the woods, when in fact he was spending 5 nights a week at my house and only sometimes visiting his tent (which had in it a sleeping bag and a stack of porn)

PCT is the real-deal, and very long and very remote and hard. the AT gets a lot more amateurs/self-righteous hippies.

I've been following this guy's blog: http://pct2007.org/
He just finished a through-hike of the PCT

i want to live like homeless people
i want to do whatever homeless people do

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mike brodie