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Anonymous
Well then, I actually did hobo for about a year and a half. I worked my way around the US mostly, but I did go to Canada and Mexico a couple times. It was a lot of fun, but it was pretty wild. I took the bus a lot, because I didn't have a car. I never did the dirty hobo stuff. I stayed at mom and pop hotels for a week or so, do some shit work for cash, a lot of day laboring. Home Depot/Lowes will become your friend. Hang out with the Mexicans out front, but you have to get there early if you want a job. You can make a solid $50-$80 in a day. It's hard work, but far better than making less than 5 an hour washing dishes at restaurants. Most of the time, the employer would feed us lunch. I actually once made 100 for one day of ditch digging. He was a nice guy too. A lot of hobos just panhandle and shit and live like fucking pigs. I'd rather work a day, make some cash and stay in a cheap motel.
Don't do drugs while your on the lamb. That just fucks everything up. If you smoke and drink, you may have to work a little harder and limit your bus trips, because that costs extra cash, especially up North.
But yeah. It's pretty great stuff. I encourage everyone to hobo at least once in their life. I'd love to do it again, but I went back home and started college, so I'll have to wait a little.
Also, a lot of people gypsy, which is staying in one place for a month and up, get an established job, and move one. I never liked that. The longest I stayed in one place was 3 weeks in Portland.
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