imwastinglife
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Hey everybody! I’m happy to have found this form I can already tell there’s a ton of great info on here. I’m T, 24m from Boston and am planning to hit the road and hitch hike from here in Boston to somewhere in Cali and back this summer. I’ve grown up reading about and dreaming about travel from people like Jack Kerouac and can’t help but feel like a trip like this is something I need to do and will forever regret if I don’t at least try.
I’ve done some small road trip before sleeping out of my car and spent 3 weeks last summer living in my Tahoe in Manhattan so I’ve done some traveling before but the furthest I’ve been was to Tennessee a few years ago I drove down with a friend to see the solar eclipse. Travel has always been something I look forward to but everytime it give me a ton of anxiety too. I don’t have an amazing life here at home but I do miss my family, my bed and my pets and for some reason when I’ve traveled before I get this feeling that I’m leaving something great and when I come back it’ll be different, does that make sense?
I want to see more of this country but I’m dead broke, I had to sell my car and I owe so much to the gov that I won’t be able to register another one for awhile I won’t have much money for many train or bus tickets and not many if any motel rooms. Seeing the country by hitchhiking seems like an amazing experience that people who have done it, tell me they don’t regret. But I’m still nervous about it and afraid I’ll never have the balls to get out there and do it. I don’t want to appropriate anyones lifestyle so I’m sorry if it comes across that way I just want to share in an experience that I feel like I need to grow up I’m called to it.
Anyway I figured I’d make this post to introduce myself as I’ll probably be asking some questions and reading a lot trying to learn, hope it’s not too long winded. Thanks everyone.
I’ve done some small road trip before sleeping out of my car and spent 3 weeks last summer living in my Tahoe in Manhattan so I’ve done some traveling before but the furthest I’ve been was to Tennessee a few years ago I drove down with a friend to see the solar eclipse. Travel has always been something I look forward to but everytime it give me a ton of anxiety too. I don’t have an amazing life here at home but I do miss my family, my bed and my pets and for some reason when I’ve traveled before I get this feeling that I’m leaving something great and when I come back it’ll be different, does that make sense?
I want to see more of this country but I’m dead broke, I had to sell my car and I owe so much to the gov that I won’t be able to register another one for awhile I won’t have much money for many train or bus tickets and not many if any motel rooms. Seeing the country by hitchhiking seems like an amazing experience that people who have done it, tell me they don’t regret. But I’m still nervous about it and afraid I’ll never have the balls to get out there and do it. I don’t want to appropriate anyones lifestyle so I’m sorry if it comes across that way I just want to share in an experience that I feel like I need to grow up I’m called to it.
Anyway I figured I’d make this post to introduce myself as I’ll probably be asking some questions and reading a lot trying to learn, hope it’s not too long winded. Thanks everyone.