Tell me how your nomadic life style started.

[CurlyTJ]

Seeing as I'm about to set off on my own adventure, I'm Interested in hearing how y'all's started.

 

[sevedemanos]

just poverty, in so many words. although i def don’t consider myself a nomad. i reserve that for the gypsies of romania and albania who still go around in carts and campers with their families, hungry af

 

[ali]

I'm an army brat so we moved around a lot growing up. My parents are from different countries and emigrated to a third one after leaving the army, so I've only ever really known life as a foreigner or migrant. I always wanted to live somewhere else so made it a goal to migrate again after high school and made an international jump a couple more times till I realized it didn't work well with being in a traditional relationship, so I gave up on those and refocused on my own thing. That's when I started traveling a lot more and longer, in my 30s. Still a lifelong migrant worker, wouldn't know how to live any other way.

 

[Framese]

I was born a ramblin' man. Nobody in my blood family is or was in the military, though. I don't know if I have any Roma heritage, since my grandma changed my family's name, and then changed her name, but when I found out what the original name was, I became very sentimental about Roma culture.
My parent was very into hippie culture, and was in the paper for their folk art. They also drew gorgeous Dali-esque Surrealism.

 

[imaginarymax]

Graduating HS early to high-tail across the country still as a minor, broke & outdoors, happy to be anywhere but 'home!' The universe has such a multitude of crazy corners to go explore. After seeing so many scenarios fall to festering disfunction, the idea of keepin' it movin', groovin', and ever-adapting is a means I hold onto
How about you??

 

[CurlyTJ]

Graduating HS early to high-tail across the country still as a minor, broke & outdoors, happy to be anywhere but 'home!' The universe has such a multitude of crazy corners to go explore. After seeing so many scenarios fall to festering disfunction, the idea of keepin' it movin', groovin', and ever-adapting is a means I hold onto
How about you?

Moving and grooving lol yeah I'm definitely trying to live by that. Haven't started just yet I'm still gathering my gear so I can start my journey trainhopping, but shouldn't be too much longer before I'm on the road 🙏

 

[roguetrader]

back in the late 80's / early 90's the 'hippie traveller' scene was massive in the UK and later Europe - it seemed like everyone I knew wanted to 'get a van and fuck off' - so eventually I did...

 

[ElNayshon]

Lost everything in a flood, moved into an even shittier apartment, got broken into and robbed 2x in one month. Hit the road and never looking back.

 

[CurlyTJ]

Lost everything in a flood, moved into an even shittier apartment, got broken into and robbed 2x in one month. Hit the road and never looking back.

Hell yeah man see ya out there

 

[NamelessExistence]

I was tired of paying rent just to have a place to keep my things and sleep. Felt like a stagnant lifestyle that wasn’t for me. I was always outside and swimming in lakes constantly. During Covid I decided to say fuck it and got a van. Was the best thing for me up u til recently when it broke down and I had to sell it. Been kinda bouncing around living outta my pack.

 

[Hiruzen]

I have been homeless off and on since my 20s and just decided that being able to travel around and almost do what I want is better than being tied down to anything in one place. I am soon to be going further west maybe out to AZ or NM if everything goes as planned

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

i was 19 and working as a night stocker at Safeway. Finally i got sick of working overnight and applied to the French Foreign Legion and Virginia Military Institute. Then caught a bus to the DC area to tour the VMI campus and maybe catch a flight to France. I ended up diverting to DC instead and just explored DC and stayed at the old hostel near K st.