Id been on the road constantly since 2002 to 2010. Tried to settle down in 2010 in FL in for about 10 months and it didnt work so i ended up riding to the west coast, fucking around for awhile and am currently trying here. Ive been "settled" here for about 7 months now. I still take as many rides as i can get the time for (6 since ive been here. all different directions). But i think this is the one... at least for a couple years.
I dont think living in one place for the rest of my time on earth is something i can do. Im hopelessly addicted to motion. But there is cool stuff you can do in a house that you cant do on the road. The one thing that really sux about years of travel is when you try to get a job and theres years and years of a gap in your employment. I usually just lie, but it makes getting a job pretty tough. That and im still having a really hard time with bills, "normal people", and knowing that i have to be at a certain place at a certain time every weekday. The cool thing is i know if it all went to shit and i was homeless I would be right back to my comfort zone.
I dont regret any of the time ive spent on the road. I look at it like... All my highschool friends (excluding the 7 or so who came out on the road) went to college after school and got trapped into "normal life" right away. They "got wild" in college and all that but they dont really know the world thats out there. All they know is schedules, their home town, whats on TV. Traveling is an education in its own right. Also knowing that you can live/survive on basically nothing and you have a "home" in every city/town in the country is great. It always cracks me up when people are like "well, we live in a dilapidated trailer, we can barely even afford ramen for dinner, i work 3 shitty jobs... BUT at least we aint homeless" So many people are arfaid to be homeless and coming from that into the world of normality is like that ace in the hand.
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