daydreamer
Well-known member
Ok, I just wanted to grab attention with the subject title. No offense to dirty street kids, I love ya!
I'm brand new here, been lurking for a few days and loving this site. I'm 42 and female and feel like I've been a punk at heart my whole life. I got pregnant at 18 tho, and tried to live the "normal" life for my kid's sake. I love my son but I've been miserable for the last 23 years. I've been gradually disconnecting from the mainstream for years now and I've come to the point where I'm ready to just hit the road and disappear. I bought a van and I'm heading west in a couple weeks (just tying up some loose ends here).
I originally intended to go to San Diego (for the weather, I have fibromyalgia and the humidity on the east cost is killin' me), but I'm not married to that idea. I'm also thinking about Slab City. But really, I'm up for anything. I might even head to Williston, ND, for the money, at least for a while but I'm kinda leery about being a woman alone there. Probably not the best time of year for ND anyway, what with cold weather in just a few months. Maybe next spring.....Whatever, we'll see what happens. I'm basically letting go of the reins and seeing where the horse takes me at this point.
I don't have much money right now, but I know how to make enough to get by. I've flown a sign a couple times when I needed to pay the electric bill, or needed gas, so I could do it again if I had to. But I don't plan on depending on that - I do mystery shopping so I can do that anywhere in the country. I don't want to get involved with any kind of welfare cuz I don't want to be on the gov't radar if I can help it. My political stance is pretty much waking up every day and wishing for a "reset" button, i.e. a plague, nuclear war, etc. I realize there's a 99.9% chance that I would be one of the casualties but I'm ok with that. I feel like this planet needs to get back to about 10% of its current population and humans need to go back to being hunter/gatherers. I might be in the minority with that opinion, but whatever.
The best thing about this site is the acceptance I see here. There are a few haters but I'm blown away by the general "live and let live" attitude that I've seen. I've tried to live my life by that motto and the Golden Rule, but most people I know couldn't give a flip about that and just want to force their opinions down other people's throat and try to control them. I have run out of patience for that and I'm "dropping out", I guess.
Anyway, enough about me. I really look forward to reading more here, and getting out there, and hopefully meeting like-minded people.
Shana
I'm brand new here, been lurking for a few days and loving this site. I'm 42 and female and feel like I've been a punk at heart my whole life. I got pregnant at 18 tho, and tried to live the "normal" life for my kid's sake. I love my son but I've been miserable for the last 23 years. I've been gradually disconnecting from the mainstream for years now and I've come to the point where I'm ready to just hit the road and disappear. I bought a van and I'm heading west in a couple weeks (just tying up some loose ends here).
I originally intended to go to San Diego (for the weather, I have fibromyalgia and the humidity on the east cost is killin' me), but I'm not married to that idea. I'm also thinking about Slab City. But really, I'm up for anything. I might even head to Williston, ND, for the money, at least for a while but I'm kinda leery about being a woman alone there. Probably not the best time of year for ND anyway, what with cold weather in just a few months. Maybe next spring.....Whatever, we'll see what happens. I'm basically letting go of the reins and seeing where the horse takes me at this point.
I don't have much money right now, but I know how to make enough to get by. I've flown a sign a couple times when I needed to pay the electric bill, or needed gas, so I could do it again if I had to. But I don't plan on depending on that - I do mystery shopping so I can do that anywhere in the country. I don't want to get involved with any kind of welfare cuz I don't want to be on the gov't radar if I can help it. My political stance is pretty much waking up every day and wishing for a "reset" button, i.e. a plague, nuclear war, etc. I realize there's a 99.9% chance that I would be one of the casualties but I'm ok with that. I feel like this planet needs to get back to about 10% of its current population and humans need to go back to being hunter/gatherers. I might be in the minority with that opinion, but whatever.
The best thing about this site is the acceptance I see here. There are a few haters but I'm blown away by the general "live and let live" attitude that I've seen. I've tried to live my life by that motto and the Golden Rule, but most people I know couldn't give a flip about that and just want to force their opinions down other people's throat and try to control them. I have run out of patience for that and I'm "dropping out", I guess.
Anyway, enough about me. I really look forward to reading more here, and getting out there, and hopefully meeting like-minded people.
Shana