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    Decent cheap Mandolin

    Just ordered this $50 (with shipping) student mandolin from ebay, pretty damn good for a brand new mando and the thing has pretty good reviews too. It comes in sunburst too, same price...
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    News & Blogs "Hard Like Nails" - Chattanooga Free Press - Surprisingly well-researched outsider article.

    http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/may/23/hard-like-nails/ For days he lived in the background of the train yard, hiding behind boxcars and lingering near brushy areas within view of the tracks. Nails is a veteran among the traveling kids. Still, he hates waiting for the freight trains to...
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    Logging Boots?

    I've been looking at some all-leather logging boots, some with steel toe at various sporting goods stores and a couple places like Sears. http://www.gemplers.com/img/carolina-logging-boots-159866.jpg http://www.georgiaboot.com/products/9706/G7313/Georgia-Steel-Toe-Waterproof-Logger-Boot/...
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    RIP Fran the Hobo Minstrel

    Although Fran stopped hopping trains many years before this site was created, I think we can all respect the old-timer who spent the later years of his life trying to keep alive the hobo traditions and educate people about what it really was like. Fran was a really great guy, extremely helpful...
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    Your stories for my zine

    I’m compiling the stories and photographs of modern vagabonds for my zine “Road to Anywhere” which I hope to have published and available for purchase by Christmas. I’m looking for creative/interesting stories about traveling by hitchhiking, rideshare, freighthopping, whatever. Your story can...
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    Anyone out there like folk music?

    I guess I'm kind of an outsider - not a huge fan of punk rock, although I don't dislike it. Just isn't my thing. Anyone like folk/bluegrass music?
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    Redneck Troubles - abandoned railroad hike, Central TX

    It was around 9:00 when our tired, insect-bitten legs hauled our fatigued bodies towards the abandoned railroad trestle bridge. Crossing earlier in the day had been difficult enough - many of the tracks were rotten, cracked or missing - but it was now dark, and the sliver of a moon shone only...
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