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Greetings fellow travelers, I'm Dune. I've been living a pretty stationary life while always dreaming of cutting my leash for the open road/trail/rail. Been spending a lot of time reading up on skills and advice. I'm not a complete newbie--I hitched around a bit in my younger years (I'm in my...

So I'm new here and don't get online often but this seems like a cool social media site and if someone could help me out I'm looking for a way to get to U.K from mid-west USA or maybe Canada without spending all the money I don't have. I was hoping to go within the next two months after a cross...

Reviewed by one of the people I collaborate with over on {R}emnants http://flip.it/lBIlp a Flipboard curated by several people, including myself. --------------------- HOBO VISIONS John T. Davis’s 1992 documentary, Hobo, finds the BBC filmmaker tagging along with a modern day...

Hey everybody! Like I said, been lurking a long time. Gone on travels and about to go again. Due to a grow op that i decided aint gonna work. I'm just finishing what beer I can't carry ATM. Lookin forward to swapping some stories!

Life on the Road as a Millennial Ah, life on the open road. So American! Kerouac! Easy Rider! The kid from Into the Wild who ate those seeds and died! Kids are still unplugging and trying out The Hobo Life—but what happens when you add Wi-Fi and Indiegogo campaigns and iPhone apps to the...

Autumn, 2006 Jack London Inn - Oakland California. I'm awoken from my sleep before the sun has risen, the conductor and I catch an easy one today. Our eastbound double stacked intermodal train is pulled out to Emeryville, air tested and ready to go. Cal-P route, we make great time. I've brought...

Weirdo oogle art by Kelly Campanile. https://www.facebook.com/KCcampy http://wereneurotic.tumblr.com/ Art created and inspired by my hitch hiking experiences, squatting, dumb ass punk kids, junkies, whores, junkie whores, rat fink, Robert crumb, stupid oogle assholes, homelessness, stick and...

I've noticed that compared to other parts of the world this scene seems dead in Australia, I'd definitely want to get to know some Australians, especially South Australians who are/would be interested in hitchhiking or train hopping?

Hard Travelin' - Woody Guthrie Hobo's Lullaby - Woody Guthrie Hallelujah I'm A Bum - Harry McClintock Big Rock Candy Mountains - Harry McClintock Please enlighten me with some more hobo/travelin' music!

Pretty goofy. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/fashion/hobo-chic-from-the-bindle-bros-of-brooklyn.html?_r=0 The Bindle Brothers, Josiah and Dusty, have a name that sounds like one of those banjo-plucking decidedly old-timey musical groups. With their suspenders, floppy caps and cotton work...

I'm avoiding my homework to tell you guys about an idea I've had bouncing around my head for a while. trigger warning: 2edgy ahoy. So I took in a homeless kid. He's 22. His dad died three months ago. He's in my town fresh out of rehab. I met him in Taco Bell slumped over a table waiting for...

So I find it strange that when I'm in a place and have a job I have to disguise the fact that I hitch hike hop trains etc. I get the feeling that everyone just looks at me like I'm some kind of schlep working some kind of job nobody going nowhere type of person. Like why aren't you going to...

as anybody ever heard of this guy named hobo ron this guy had a 3 week discussion about trains with me before i took offf bymyself cool guy

So I thought I would share something that I just tried for the first time. I love dying my hair crazy colors and shit, but hair dye is a little pricey, not to mention full of chemically shit I don't like using. So I managed to dye my hair yesterday for just $1 using Unsweetened kool aid packets...

Maybe I'm a bit late in posting this, but I recently discovered there's an annual National Hobo Convention taking place in Britt, Iowa on August 3-9, 2015. My partner and I are rubbertramping out of Michigan soon to start heading west and look for temp work, and we were wondering if this...

So this girl tells me "crew change guides are all we got" elsewhere on the internet. Argument ensues and I walk away having no clue where she got all of her absurd notions. Later find out the published a book called "How to be a Hobo" which really fucking concerns me. Has anyone read this? I'm...

Hello my fellow proud hobos! I am Tom Bluenose here in Jiangsu Province, PRC. I began my erudite journeys in 1997 after a bold "barstool prophet" moment and a "mirror moment" (those of you know what I am talking about). Since then I have lived in South Korea, Japan, PRC, Kingdom of Bahrain...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/homeless-millennials-are-transforming-hobo-culture/ar-AAbjK2B?ocid=AARDHP Homeless Millennials Are Transforming Hobo Culture Newsweek Betsy Isaacson © Michael Portugal The vagabond ecosystem is changing thanks to cellphones, Wi-Fi, Craigslist and Google Maps...

I recently, as in today, went down to the whereabouts of a BNSF intermodal facility, which I wanted to scope out because it should take me west and I want to have a good idea of the layout before I mess with trying to hop trains there when it's warmer. I ran into some sort of hobo camp on the...

I am new here and was just reading while lurking when I saw a post about a DIY heater that reminded me of a different heater I know of. Since it's cold weather season I thought I'd post to share before I forget. All you need is a 2-piece terracotta flower pot in the size of your choice and a...

So, put simply I'm new to this. I've never traveled on my own before, and spending the earliest years of life in the ghetto, I find it hard to believe that I could do this alone. It would be very helpful for some tips on what to do, who/what to avoid while traveling.

Yo yo yo. I did one of these things yesterday but I'm doing another one now. If that doesn't tell you about me, I don't know what will. I am 17 with a 13 week old kitten, George. I travel with my boyfriend Mitchell and his western coyote Kilo. I've only been traveling for a little under a year...

Jack Black, a reformed yegg who spent his life tramping America as a burglar/safecracker in the age of the Old West bum wrote an autobiography called "You Can't Win". It's a sobering and honest story full of amazing historical tidbits about what jail, the rails, cops, burgling was like in the...

So with mars being "our" next destintion and frontier...i got to thinkin about how nasa is being privatized...and i wondered What kinda sign would a space age bum fly? say u could get lucky and just "hop out" to mars...how would u go about panhandlin this ride?

<Edit - this thread was moved to obituaries as this person has passed on ... Tude> Relatively cleancut looking, older fellow calls himself Hobo Jim and has a railroad tat on one hand. My friend's two friends had met and hung out with him in the daytime. Night at the catchout, one of them...

Roll of toilet paper in a coffee can, pour in a bottle of rubbing alcohol/denatured alcohol,what have you,,but becareful, its hard to see burning alcohol in the light, and carbon dioxide will put ya to sleep,forever.

So I'm really not sure what to think of this, especially since it's on a site called "trainparty", but I had to share it: http://www.trainparty.com/products/railroad-hobo-codes-bandana.html I originally found it on rucksackrevolution's page, a little more crustified:

what the hell should i wear to at least help me not look like such a freakin poser amongst some of you veteran hobos..

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...

I want to hear your Hobo engineering inventions. I think if everyone contributes their ideas and home made Hobo inventions so that its all in one spot, it would make a great sticky to refer to in times of need and inspiration (especially to the new dirty kids on the block). I think we could all...

Just joined the site and thought I'd show a stove idea I used back in 09. While staying a winter at the Slabs, I noticed there was a surplus of old coffee cans lying around. Started cooking on a hobo stove every night. I wanted to take one with but they seemed to much of a pain to pack...

for a weekend that would have music and storys about hobos. Ted McKnight who is the the National Park service archivist has collected stuff about hobos in his archive. They are open to the idea of a interpretive display with authentic hobos. How would we pull this off?

Sorry if this has been posted before.... An ethical code was created by Tourist Union #63 during its 1889 National Hobo Convention in St. Louis Missouri.[13] This code was voted upon as a concrete set of laws to govern the Nation-wide Hobo Body; it reads this way: Decide your own life, don't...

are you going to be in the Seattle area time soon? Does your pack have a broken zipper? Are your favorite pair of jeans getting trashed? Does your tent have a hole in it? I possess a industrial sewing machine! If you need repairs, and don't mind a potentially miss matched color, i will fix...

Im looking to ride out of florida in late july to august for the hobo convention in ia. Im looking for a second rider out of the state of florida. If I have to take the old grey dog to get there so be it but I want to ride or back. Anyone remotely interested hit me up

was wanting to hop and squat across canada, but dont have a passport...are the cops or mounties dicks there? do they harass the homeless like the cops in america do?

Me and a mate travelled to the US last year to make a documentary on the changing face of the hobo. We met with a bunch of rail riders in both Seattle and Iowa. The production is going well but I'm keen to get some more footage taken on the rails. Please do get in touch if you can help - you'll...

Hey wut up? I'm Joel, I've been in central fl ( Orlando) for 8 yrs since I moved from PR in 2003 graduated HS and ever since been here, studied a bit, got almost a degree. But there is no Jobs here for electronics. I got to escape Orlando!!!! Recently I got involved with the Occupy movement...

and now for the introduction of bor1001 drum roll please..................HI.I am from MI and want to get out on the road the only major issue is I cant go without being clean its not sleeping outside or the safety as I am 6'4" 200# no one really steps up ever. How do I get around washing on the...

Just Take It... If You Want It... If Not FUCK OFF...

If you're in need of a scanner when riding the rails and you are in possession of a smart phone, download the application Scanner Buddy free. It's on the droid market fer sure; as far as others idk You can set your location and it gives you stations of railroads, police depts, fire stations...

http://www.tedconover.com/book-rolling-nowhere/ Ted Conover is a alive and well! I enjoyed his book because he rode in a time when there were many old boes on the road. Good Read if you can find it.

Okay, so I have hitched and driven all across the country off and on since 2003. Now, I have this driving job that will take me into Cle Elum Washington by mid to late next week. I will be coming back to Kentucky and have considered the basic hitching journey to meet this end. However, I really...

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I've been getting sick of eating cold food via food stamps on the road so I found a couple designs and made what I think is a pretty good hobo stove. It's basically design and the typical twigs-in-a-can design combined. Materials needed: -big can (i used a coffee can) -little can (i used a...

One of the faeries at the sanctuary in Wolf Creek, OR was telling me about these musicians who passed through on their way to a hobo camp somewhere between here and Medford. He said some people there live in box cars and 'teach the old hobo ways'. I did a quick Google search but all I found...

hi ma name is earth muffin. ma real name is dumpsterneedle but i go by earthmuffin to spite my mother-sister who named me dumpsterneedle to spite her mother-aunt. anyways i cum from a long line of blue coller workin' class women and a longer line of pussy whipped immigrant men.... starvin artist...

I hadnt seen anything posted about this yet, so I figured Id do it. The hobo convention is held the second week of August every year. Is anyone planning on coming out to good ole Iowa this year? Let me know, Id love to see some people!

I tried to post this story in the past but was not succesful, probably didnt hit submit ! Any way me and 2 or 3 of my 8th grade pals decided to skip school and as we often did we ended up down by the river and the rr tracks that followed it. we were just fuckin off and being kids and we...

So I've found the best method for me is the mini burn barel method. Basically it works like a burn barel but is a coffee can. You need to drill/ cut holes all over the sides of the can so you get proper ventilation. You fire will go out with out proper ventilation. I repeat you need lots of...