youlookguilty
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Hey everyone, cool community you have here.
I stumbled on STP while making a google search about how to hop freights. Something I've always wanted to do since a few punks from my high school did it back around 2006. I've never caught out, but have plenty of experience with wandering around freight yards, track lines etc around MA, NH, ME. I've painted graffiti off and on since I was a teenager and have always just had a general interest in trains and all of the abandoned stuff that one usually sees around a train yard.
My plan is to try to get across the country. I'm located right now in massachusetts. I know of a straight shot a friend told me about from the central massachusetts area to Chicago Which would probably be my first leg of the trip. From Chicago, I'd like to go to Denver (have a few friends down there and I just love Colorado in general).
Eventually I'd like to make it to Oakland/SF/Bay area. Never been there and always heard it's a really rad place (well maybe SF isn't that rad anymore but I'd still like to go). From there, I want to go up to Seattle and back east via the infamous high line through montana... Back down to Chicago and back east to Massachusetts.
My only concern is, I'm a student right now and will need to be back home by mid August at the latest. I have a nest egg (tax return) that I can probably make last me the whole trip and potential for an emergency bus ticket home just in case I'm in a pinch for time. So my question is, how long do you all think this journey would take? Or to simply go across the country. I know there's several things to factor in here and there is no definite answer, but maybe a ballpark estimate of how long this would take? I don't plan on just stopping anywhere and chilling for more than 2 or 3 days.
Also, if anyone would be interested in meeting up/traveling together I would love that. I'm at an age now where lots of my friends are settling down to the norm/sedentary life so I want to meet new people who still have that wanderlust in their souls. As for me, I'm pretty easy to get along with. I love hardcore, punk, and heavy metal music a little bit of hip hop too. Graffiti and art in general is a huge passion of mine (I plan on documenting this trip on a super 8 camera. Outdoors stuff, hiking, camping, climbing.. literature, eastern philosophy, Just a knowledge junky in general. I smoke weed pretty regularly, I drink socially and sometimes have a few while chilling, but not a full blown party animal. Not a whiner, not a coward, can deal with shit situations and stay composed.
TL;DR: Trying to get from MA to the Bay area of California this summer (mostly oakland) up to Seattle, back east to Minneapolis, down to Chicago, and back east to MA. How long would an experienced train hopper estimate this trip would take? Also, if you're interested in meeting up, send me a PM!
I stumbled on STP while making a google search about how to hop freights. Something I've always wanted to do since a few punks from my high school did it back around 2006. I've never caught out, but have plenty of experience with wandering around freight yards, track lines etc around MA, NH, ME. I've painted graffiti off and on since I was a teenager and have always just had a general interest in trains and all of the abandoned stuff that one usually sees around a train yard.
My plan is to try to get across the country. I'm located right now in massachusetts. I know of a straight shot a friend told me about from the central massachusetts area to Chicago Which would probably be my first leg of the trip. From Chicago, I'd like to go to Denver (have a few friends down there and I just love Colorado in general).
Eventually I'd like to make it to Oakland/SF/Bay area. Never been there and always heard it's a really rad place (well maybe SF isn't that rad anymore but I'd still like to go). From there, I want to go up to Seattle and back east via the infamous high line through montana... Back down to Chicago and back east to Massachusetts.
My only concern is, I'm a student right now and will need to be back home by mid August at the latest. I have a nest egg (tax return) that I can probably make last me the whole trip and potential for an emergency bus ticket home just in case I'm in a pinch for time. So my question is, how long do you all think this journey would take? Or to simply go across the country. I know there's several things to factor in here and there is no definite answer, but maybe a ballpark estimate of how long this would take? I don't plan on just stopping anywhere and chilling for more than 2 or 3 days.
Also, if anyone would be interested in meeting up/traveling together I would love that. I'm at an age now where lots of my friends are settling down to the norm/sedentary life so I want to meet new people who still have that wanderlust in their souls. As for me, I'm pretty easy to get along with. I love hardcore, punk, and heavy metal music a little bit of hip hop too. Graffiti and art in general is a huge passion of mine (I plan on documenting this trip on a super 8 camera. Outdoors stuff, hiking, camping, climbing.. literature, eastern philosophy, Just a knowledge junky in general. I smoke weed pretty regularly, I drink socially and sometimes have a few while chilling, but not a full blown party animal. Not a whiner, not a coward, can deal with shit situations and stay composed.
TL;DR: Trying to get from MA to the Bay area of California this summer (mostly oakland) up to Seattle, back east to Minneapolis, down to Chicago, and back east to MA. How long would an experienced train hopper estimate this trip would take? Also, if you're interested in meeting up, send me a PM!
