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it definitely happens. i personally know three different people who had it happen to them and have heard a lot more stories and hear say.

http://www.gonomad.com/component/co...7-hopping-freight-trains-the-story-of-rapid-t my friend from high schools dad had this website back in the day when he tried to open a coffee shop for a while and he happened to meet rapid t one day! haha

does anyone out there listen to or play cajun music? i have become obsessed with this music over the last year and a half after not really having any inkling of what it was outside of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. the music is very powerful and moving:

yeah dude i know, i hopped out of there last november, it was pretty easy, only had to wait like 3 hours, there is a good cum n' go right by the catch out and the girl who works the night shift there that will hook you up with free coffee.

because it's as far west as you can go before you gotta turn around and start going east again! duh. and like someone mentioned, it takes up half the west coast. going on a trip to california is like going to baltimore, philly , new york city, boston, vermont, new hampshire and maine. plus...

whattup taz, good to hear you are alive and well. hope you are having fun. guess what, andrea is moving back to greenfield. dont know if you and her are still in touch. stay safe , cory

damn. i met this guy in whitefish last year he was cool as fuck. him and his friend cooked me up a huge feast of ribs and brussel sprouts and pbr, and then we listened to coast to coast and he talked about all the times he had pranked called the radio show. then he sang a bunch of hilarious...

had friends busted there and given smallish tickets. overall sounds like the bulls theyve encountered were very gentlemanly, and told of workers kicking them down money and water as they were being escorted out. they were found with the mirror on the stick lookin into the well.

damn taz try and different onramp and get outta there. try hitching to gardner or see if there is a bus out there. then youre on route 2 and its an easy stretch back to greenfield/orange/erving.

two of my friends said the same thing, 10 days before getting deported, watched a lot of movies, pretty boring but overall not that bad.

they may deport you if yer caught doing something illegal like squatting or train riding. if they dont, you probably will only get one warning on your record before you are deported the next time youre caught.

got arrested on cp in NY recently, judge said similar thing, 6 months "probation" until suspended charges are dropped for good. judge was very vague about what would bring the charge up, just said 'stay outta trouble.' figure as long as i dont get into any trouble in new york state for a while...

wow. i met clutter in the middle of nowhere maine at a random siding and hung out with him for a while before we all rode up to mattawamkeag about three years ago. it was a super random encounter. he was on his way to montreal with a brand new puppy. he was a nice guy for the few hours i knew...

there is a difference when 'vigilante justice' when it is spurred on by mob mentality, fear, rumors and heresay. a person has a right to a fair trial by their peers, and to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. IF (that is if rons story is true, which i do not know if it is or not either...

IF ron's story is true, whether those guys stories were full of bull crap or not they sound like they got what was coming to them. maybe they were just bullshitting, but if someone is gonna brag about throwing a kids off trains so they can rape their girlfriends, they should duly accept the...

migration office doesnt close at 7pm. if you look like a crust lord or a hippie they probably arent going to let you in. they dont need a reason to not. carry a lot of cash with you and put on a turtleneck and slacks.

this is the coolest thing ive read about it a while. real common sense if you think about it, but people need a huge debt crisis to snap them out it. this could work right now in a lot of places, but most people wouldnt be willing to support it until their pockets were really hurting.

creepy stuff. who knows whats it in, better to just grab a duck outta the pond and rub him all over your body

sounds good. take some goats with you. or a dog or a bike. i feel like if you had a puppy, traveling at that pace, you would just invite people to talk to you. i'd like to cross the country on mule or horse some day. or with goats. dont get too disillusioned when you meet other travelers or...

i sense you need to acquire some humility. it really is the best way to learn.

hell yes i take elderberry syrup my friend made, and my own chaga/reishi/astragalus tincture with coffee every morning. coffee might be the strongest mood/immune booster however. eating lots of wild greens this time of year makes it my favorite season! my friend started eating dirt on a hill the...

well, really the problem with most of this old time music genre stuff is those old hillbillies could hardly play their instruments, sing in key, write their only lyrics, put on a good show and what-have-you... a lot of it was not very P.C. either! plus the primitive recording techniques from...

hey uncivilize. the book was either Ishi or "indians in overalls" by jaime de angulo. i read them both at the same time so i cant remember. probably was the latter. that is a pretty interesting idea, knotting the furs together like that. i wish i had known about that museum. last time i was in...

whats interesting is that until the 30s there was hardly anyone who didnt have recent ties to rural culture. in the world.

haha the kid reaches up and quickly tunes while he plays. i dont really like this style of banjo playing but still, that is slick. theres a cool documentary called "new england fiddle" you can watch at http://www.folkstreams.net/film,93 made me feel different about playing this genre of music...

vermont massachusetts old time!

how do you define authentic? that is an hard word to pin down sometimes. this guy frank is my new favorite musician. he grew up in central valley CA.

ho how do these kits work exactly?

makin a blanket is an awesome idea! i just read a anthropologists book about indians in northern california near mt, shasta who used to make blankets out of rabbits. each blanket would have 100 - 300 pelts! you could make it double sided. ive done a lot of brain tanning but never had a lot of...

how close are you to detroit? i am planning on heading out there from massachusetts in the next couple weeks to visit an old friend, and i would be interested in stopping by/checking out your place. i've got carpentry skills and i enjoy helping out.

so why would you include his commentary in a movie about hobos? he doesnt do crazy things. he does stupid things. i know people who do crazy things, because they are crazy. they dont do it to show off. he seems like a very boring and very sane person who is doing dangerous things for the sake of...

dan oshea is an idiot as well. if you are going to people like him because 'research is paramount', that gives me an inkling that your movie is going to be crap. im sorry if im coming across as a jerk, but your movie has already been made.. ever seen 'train on the brain'? british film maker...

jesus christ get out of here. you should be making dan osheas idiotic book into a motion picture instead of making a stupid fake documentary about hobos with people like brave dave. give me a break: "hobocore describes a person who chooses to ride freight trains, squat, travel and stay...

whattup derailed, i like your stories. so do you do a bark solution soak, and then egg/stretch etc? a friend of mine showed me some grain on deer hide he recently had bark tanned. i'd like to try it for making hats and shoes. i have a deer hide that was abandoned after some soaking in bark...

i met a real nice couple in cheyenne last summer and i'm posting it on here just in case they happen to be on here and recognize themselves. i forgot their names, they were from roseville, had three dogs, travelling at a very slow pace, shared their granola and coconut juice with me, and then we...

thats one of my favorite books! ive read other books by him and they dont come even close. that is one of the only books i've read, then almost immediatley re-read. i looked up most of the words i didnt know the second time. my favorite author right now is probably james baldwin.

i dont think i would hitch hike alone if i were a woman, i've heard too many horror stories to make it worth it. hop a train or buy a bus ticket; if i had a daughter thats what i would teach her. i've had plenty of dangerous hitchhiking rides and had friends almost die because the driver was on...

i've never tried tanning pig skin, but i think it is pretty thick, like horse or cattle, which would be difficult to tan using brains. you could do bark tanning, which takes longer but gives you more waterproof leather. im not very experienced with bark tanning at all, but have read about it a...

more or less. maybe less mock, and more knock up the side of the head. i found this article surfing around and it made me chuckle.

Would You Shoplift “Days of War, Nights of Love”? by Butch Lee What ‘insurance’ could you buy that would keep you safer than living in a world where people actually cared for each other? (page 260) Get the uzi! Some MAN i'd never met before handed this book to me at a meeting...

heya pheonix, when is hunting season in CA? and where are you? i may be out there sometime late spring for a minute, or possibly later in the summer/early fall. and what do you hunt? brain tanning smaller animals is a good place to start, while things like deer take a lot more time and effort...

anyone here into hide/brain tanning? i started doing this maybe three/four years ago, and its begun to turn into a full time hobby as the more i do it the more people keep giving me their dead animal skins and texting me about road kill in my area. after my friend gave me some lessons, i...

hit me up when yer around mass/vt, i'll be there until mid/end of spring. -cory

hey whats up lungfish, i was actually just listening to lungfish at work today! wheres gardiner maine at? i live not too far from portland maine and have travelled round maine a little the last few summer, never went further north than mattawamkeag but would like to explore further north and...

a lead paint chip ingested by a small child can kill them. most of the lead paint restrictions are because of its danger to kids, with an adult body you can handle much higher amounts, but still, its nasty shit, if youre gonna be staying there that long its best to deal with it. its probably not...

you can probably safely assume its lead paint if the house hasnt been occupied in 20 years. if your just staying there a few days, try not to touch it with your skin and wash your hands before eating and try to wash your clothes every day. if your staying there long term, you can scrape it off...

yo! at some point after high school i got a hold of HARRY SMITHS ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC: PART 2 , SOCIAL MUSIC! which is the record that changed my music taste completely. i've wanted to learn fiddle for years after hearing "sail away ladies" and im finally learning it this winter! im...

murt, how many baskets were you filling a day on average would you say?

they are made to be super well insulated in order to bear the winters there. styrofoam is a more efficient insulator than fiberglass and is used a lot in houses now.

whattup taz its cory from turners . i surf round this site some times and saw your name. you been staying at those kids house in hadley at all lately? seeya round