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[best guess]

Hey y'all, stumbled upon this site today while trying to find some useful information on riding freight trains. This summer has been my first experience in hitchhiking. I recently hitchhiked from my hometown of Toledo, Ohio to Hollywood, Florida. Took me 4 days to get down there stayed about a month, and got the free Greyhound ticket back from the cops. I'm hooked. This shit is for me. I live right by the Amtrak station in Toledo (by live, I mean I'm squatting in a vacant house) and I plan on catching out on a freight train in a couple days. I'd like to end up in San Diego, Berkeley, Santa Monica, or Malibu and plan on making stops along the way in Colorado Springs and anyplace else that seems good and has soup kitchens and a nice public library.
I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, it's at the higher functioning end of the autism spectrum, and I was born and raised in the ghetto. Most of the people I know here in Toledo are drug addicts, alcoholics, drug dealers, prostitutes, gang members, and the like.
Any advice about riding trains is welcome, from what I've read it can be pretty dangerous and it seems like there's a lot of potential for stuff to go wrong. Oh and one last thing, I don't like cops. Or clowns. Oh and I ate dinner with a fuckin raccoon last night. Not the first time I've eaten dinner with this raccoon, but he somehow found where I was squatting and showed up inside at 4:00 this morning so I ate some Doritos and a bagel with him. I guess I'll be leaving my squat house to him when I go in a couple days. Typical shit in my life, I wouldn't know how to handle normal shit

 

[Kim Chee]

Welcome.

You can read about trains in the train forum.

Ask if you have queastions.

Happy travels!

 

[Tude]

Welcome to STP - hehe shared dinner with a raccoon Yes do read up on the trains info in the train forum and internet. I admin at a dirty kid group on facebook too and just recently saw some pretty horrific pics of a girl's first trip on a train - she stepped on the knuckle just as train lurched forward and back. Her foot is a mess. Do be careful.

 

[best guess]

Thanks y'all. After I signed up to the forum I saw the train hopping section. I'm currently going through it and reading everything. I think the traveling lifestyle fits well with the principles by which I live my life and conduct myself. I will do my best to be a valuable member of this community, both on the road/rails and here on the forums.

 

[Deleted member 125]

Welcome to STP - hehe shared dinner with a raccoon Yes do read up on the trains info in the train forum and internet. I admin at a dirty kid group on facebook too and just recently saw some pretty horrific pics of a girl's first trip on a train - she stepped on the knuckle just as train lurched forward and back. Her foot is a mess. Do be careful.

UGH! knuckle foot! hope she will be able to walk again. dont hop knuckles unless you know the trains not aired up.

 

[Tude]

@cantcureherpes yeah it was bad. 2 toes gone, maybe more in future, just a mangled foot with not much skin left on it. Her boyfriend, who was there, posted the pic as a warning to be careful and don't step on the knuckle (it was her first hop).

 

[Deleted member 125]

gahhhhh thats awful!

 

[Tude]

Anyway @fibonacci - didn't mean to highjack yer thread - just be safe. Also check out other information on the internet - and check out the trainhopper, traveling, squatter, dirty kid groups on facebook too