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How far south? It was almost 100 degrees here today. It’s like a fucking swamp out there.
Not that far south. I live way in the northern segment of the United States so what I am saying is just south from my current location. About eighteen hundred miles south from where I am at currently.
do you want your heat with or without mugginess? Without, I’d suggest Arizona, New Mexico or Texas. For with, I’d suggest Louisiana. Florida, or Georgia. I headed north a bit to North Carolina and it’s not so bad here, a little chilly at night, pretty warm during the day. Gonna start heading back west soon, though. Hitting up a food bank tomorrow and then west toward Tennessee.
I found a galaxy Samsung Tablet on the side of the road and a 14 gb SD chip. I’ve been playing psp games since then and can actually use google maps, now, which has helped out a lot. If you do any traveling with your backpack, I suggest hitting up a public library in each town or city or using a device if you have one to look up resources like food banks and shelters and stuff like that, at least for hot meals, clothing and showers, etc. Personally, I prefer sleeping under bridges and out of the weather while still getting some air flow and away from other people because they generally start pissing me off after Ive been around them for a while. Oh, and if you get the chance, talk to strangers, take rides with strangers, accept their candy; break the rules a little bit.
Also, if traveling on foot, try to pick routes that have more towns along them for ready access to food and water. Traveling through Georgia, I had to rely on a few rivers and streams for water, which was pretty decent; even found a delicious little clear water deposit; but for two days after leaving Tallahassee, I was without food. That sucked. Be forewarned that due to mugginess, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi have an annoying amount of mosquitoes that will make you their dinner quite easily. Lately, ants have been the ones pissing me off, though. Keep getting into my food. Still, by far, spiders have been the best-mannered. Wasps haven’t bugged me, but they do get a little inquisitive at times.
I’ve lived in the southwest and southeast states where none of that is new to me.
Yeah, I’ve lived on the streets before and have no intention of ever going back on them. Been there, done all of that. I find no glamour or appeal on them.
I find no glamour or appeal in working in a society gone wrong, having to keep making money continuously to buy the things you need to survive, to have a house, to exist on the government teat of tainted sustenance. With all of this lack of glamour and appeal, surely it makes no difference what lifestyle you subscribe to, shitheads are still shitheads and good people are still too few and far between, too rare.
Live on the streets far removed from society eight years and then let me know if you feel the same way.
You’re right, working and contributing to this disgusting society or world for that matter is problematic however I’d still like to have some money in my pocket to do some things. I suppose it is all a matter of what you’re comfortable or content with. I’m not comfortable or content living that way myself.
Hah, why the fuck would I stay far removed from it? I still need food and water and I’m not going to hunt and kill when so many animals are already killed and slaughtered along with the plants that are murdered and all that goes to waste on a daily basis right in the midst of society. You think that I’m going to just distance myself from society when I’m one of the few that can truly claim to have it owe me a living for what I’ve given toward this life and this world and this reality in terms of blood and sweat and tears and just what I’ve brought to the table fighting a war of trolls on the internet, along with my philosophies, psychologies, etc. I have every right to walk down the road right now and ask every motherfucker I see if they have a few dollars I could have. That’s just not my nature, though. I can make do with just enough, bare minimum, because what I have isn’t even bare minimum. I receive enough help, enough kindness, enough love to satiate my appetite. I have enough to do to keep busy to sate whatever boredom I might have. I have sated my appetite for fighting through the internet, have taken my repressed anger, rage, stress, etc. out on those who deserved it without killing or physically harming a single one of them, leaving it up to them to suicide out or continue living.
I have money in my pocket right now, actually. 2 bucks and some change, enough for some hot dogs to go with the bread I have and tomorrow, I’m going to hit up a food bank before traveling back west. Waiting on the world to change and doing what I can to aid and abet it.
I still read books, I still watch movies, I still play games, I still live my life and I travel and see the US and continue moving. I still have food, still have water, still have basic necessities, though I could use clothing at this point. And, perhaps a shower. But some things can wait until I get to them. Honestly, I see no difference in sleeping under a bridge and having a house. There are pussies in both situations and I am not one of them.
How many years have you been doing it though?
Ownership.
Where west are you headed?
Keep in mind that I would like to work and be a part of society, that that’s part of what I wanted to do while growing up, part of what got me to get my head on straight so I could actually keep a job when I got another one. But, now due to being homeless and having no current ID, and how hard they make it to have jobs, yet we must be dependent on society for our needs, they paint such a glossy beautiful picture of it, of the non-apparent community and the great big brotherhood that it should be and is as we live and grow in the land of the free where we’re all enslaved and cowardly. Want me to jump through hoops? Maybe I will, some day I may; I might; but today and tonight… not so much. Maybe they should offer me a job. Either get a job or be a criminal… it’s almost like they want people to be criminals so they can make their money and revenue. They certainly make it hard enough to get a job… fill out applications, wait weeks for a response, keep checking back in, go through 3-5 interviews only to possibly get a yes, but more likely a no and keep looking. Wish I could go to the days when all you had to do was see a sign in the window that said help wanted and take it in with you and you got hired on and put to work and at least be seen in action to see if you could do the job before being turned away. Now they just go off your paperwork and resume, assuming you’re telling the truth and just not giving a fuck.
How many years does it take to know if one likes it or not? Scratch that. How many years does it take to note all the pros and cons of it? I’ve already noted them. Do you honestly think that I don’t take into account a lot of things? I’m not just some shithead, I have a good head on my shoulders… What makes you think that I don’t think? What makes you think and assume that I’m naive and stupid?
Tennessee, next and then west above the states I’ve already been through because they’ll be too hot for my tastes this time of year and it’ll be nice to see some different places and add some more states to the number I’ve already traveled through. Eventually back to california or Arizona for the winter and then back north to Washington where I came from to try to get help from friends and family to get a new ID and get on foodstamps again. Maybe travel again next year. I have no idea. Haven’t found a reason to do anything else, yet.
Yeah, but you own that house about as much as I own the damn bridge I sleep under. You just pay more money on your house. The government can still come and clear you out at any time. Do you honestly think you own any part of nature whatsoever? If someone wants what you have, they’ll fucking take it.
Well, if a person keeps paying money they can go to their own house at anytime versus a bridge where now a lot of places will ticket or fine you just for being under them. Some states you can go to jail upon not paying those fines or refusing to leave a bridge. You’re right however in the bigger schemes of things where all of civilization is one form of captivity versus another. Some people do better or thrive in such captivity in comparison to others where it is the direct opposite.
Yes, I truly view all natural forms of living as more free and independent in comparison to living within the parameters of society however good luck finding even an isolated territory of wilderness that isn’t owned by somebody especially government entities who would drag you out of them upon being discovered.
Ah, but then the jail becomes my house and I get three meals a day I don’t have to scrounge for.
Besides, discretion and responsibility allow you to get away with breaking more laws and rules. I don’t act stupid. It’s all in how you carry yourself.
Jail is a high price for three meals daily but I’ve known a lot of old timers over the years that will intentionally break laws during the winter just to have a warm place to sleep. There is discretion and that is important but surely you must also know in the back of your mind that it only takes one time to get caught. I’m not trying to dissuade you of anything it’s just that I have a great deal of experience living the way you are now. Trying to save you from grief and trouble.
Every chance you get learn from the experiences of others mate.