hobo

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...