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My cousin did. Wasn’t married and no kids. He quit his steady construction job, sold his house and left with little savings. Drove to New Jersey and then followed the coast down to Florida, living in his car. A year later he had turned up in Alaska working doing logging work. Last we heard he was in Montana but no one is sure where he is now. How does someone seemingly stable choose to become a homeless wanderer, and why?
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My cousin did. Wasn’t married and no kids. He quit his steady construction job, sold his house and left with little savings. Drove to New Jersey and then followed the coast down to Florida, living in his car. A year later he had turned up in Alaska working doing logging work. Last we heard he was in Montana but no one is sure where he is now. How does someone seemingly stable choose to become a homeless wanderer, and why? View Quote |
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I wasn't born at the time, but my uncle sold everything and drove off without any plans in his late twenties.
He eventually settled down around home and now has a little farm. |
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There was a Kung Fu master a bunch of years back who wandered from town to town. He did it to right wrongs. I don’t think he actually dropped out of sight though, because around the holidays he would still write Wongs.
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Maybe he figured out the American Dream is a trap? View Quote I think about it a lot. And the funny part is the last 10 years I have gotten myself from paycheck to paycheck to a pretty comfortable spot financially for once. |
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Maybe he figured out the American Dream is a trap? View Quote The IKEA Nesting Instinct |
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My cousin was working for the power company for two years after high school.
Hated it and was tired of the small town. Saved all of his money for the next year (lived with his dad) and went on a 6 mo trip to Europe. Well... It turned into a 2 year trip around the world. He has seen places I could never dream of. He would use up his money traveling to a new place and getting a hostel somewhere, then get a job and save up until he had enough to go to the next place. He has a YouTube channel too where he documented his entire trip. Just moved back a month or so ago. He is already saving up for his next trip. I've got to admit, it takes some serious balls to go out on your own with no backup plan. I'm proud of him. |
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OP, that is the daydream of damn near every man over 40.
I know I wish I had done something similar--at least for a little while. |
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Chris McCandless wasn't wrong and he was just a college student. If you haven't read Into the Wild, do it now. Or at least watch the movie.
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There was a Kung Fu master a bunch of years back who wandered from town to town. He did it to right wrongs. I don’t think he actually dropped out of sight though, because around the holidays he would still write Wongs. View Quote He lives down the road from me now. Sometimes he stops by for a glass of cool spring water. Hoping I never run out. |
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Gee, why would anyone want to leave a life where you're stuck in a 9-to-5 routine pattern working for an asshole for the rest of your life? https://i.imgur.com/VdW0b.gif View Quote I think about this shit all the time. The minute Wal-Mart moves to $15 an hour, I'm out. My mortgage is locked in bitches. I was seriously looking to see if I could make it on minimum wage. Hint, I couldn't. If I could quit the hectics of all my current BS at work and go mindless drone for a few years, I would consider it a vacation. Eventually I would want more again, but damn it if I don't feel like checking into a rehab somewhere just to get away from shit. |
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I know of these things
ETA quit 80k/yr in the city @ 23yo to go be a ski bum, probably made 80k in the next 4 yrs combined |
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Gee, why would anyone want to leave a life where you're stuck in a 9-to-5 routine pattern working for an asshole for the rest of your life? https://i.imgur.com/VdW0b.gif View Quote |
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Not all those who wander are lost.
My plan.....a truck and cab over camper or maybe a trailer and keep on driving. |
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There's thousands that do it every year heading out to La-La land to get a role in a hit TV show or movie ... and end up in porn movies and working restaurants instead.
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thats my retirement plan, sell the house buy a small RV and just wonder
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My cousin did. Wasn’t married and no kids. He quit his steady construction job, sold his house and left with little savings. Drove to New Jersey and then followed the coast down to Florida, living in his car. A year later he had turned up in Alaska working doing logging work. Last we heard he was in Montana but no one is sure where he is now. How does someone seemingly stable choose to become a homeless wanderer, and why? View Quote |
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OP, that is the daydream of damn near every man over 40. I know I wish I had done something similar--at least for a little while. View Quote There were certainly ups and downs. And excitment, sometimes dangerous, and sometimes rewarding. Every day your only as good as the way that you negotiate or think on your feet. The women usually weren't real pretty but functional as hell.. |
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Dick Proenneke in Alone in the Wilderness |
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Yup, have 2 buddies that now live in vans. They’re the happiest sons of bitches I’ve ever seen. Both had high paying engineering jobs before walking away from everything.
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My cousin did. Wasn’t married and no kids. He quit his steady construction job, sold his house and left with little savings. Drove to New Jersey and then followed the coast down to Florida, living in his car. A year later he had turned up in Alaska working doing logging work. Last we heard he was in Montana but no one is sure where he is now. How does someone seemingly stable choose to become a homeless wanderer, and why? View Quote |
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Not all those who wander are lost. My plan.....a truck and cab over camper or maybe a trailer and keep on driving. View Quote I am very close to building a van style travel truck. I do a lot of sleeping in vehicles when I travel all over the country for airshows and stuff. So, why not make something a bit more comfy? |
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OP, that is the daydream of damn near every man over 40. I know I wish I had done something similar--at least for a little while. View Quote I’m back to only having me to answer to with $70k worthy of equity in my house, and selling and walking away is the last thing on my mind right now. |
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Sort of my wifes cousin and her boyfriend just up and moved to Colorado to a cabin with no running water. He blows glass for a living. He also stands to get a substantial trust when he turns 35, like low 7 figures and I think he gets a stipend in the meantime
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Build your own from an old school bus. Or if you want to be a bit less obvious, you could use a cutaway van style box truck. I am very close to building a van style travel truck. I do a lot of sleeping in vehicles when I travel all over the country for airshows and stuff. So, why not make something a bit more comfy? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Not all those who wander are lost. My plan.....a truck and cab over camper or maybe a trailer and keep on driving. I am very close to building a van style travel truck. I do a lot of sleeping in vehicles when I travel all over the country for airshows and stuff. So, why not make something a bit more comfy? |
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A guy I went to College with got a job working on movie sets in California. He did that for about ten years, then bought a sailboat, sold off everything he owned and since then has been sailing that boat all over the world. Last update I saw from him, he was somewhere in the caribbean, posting pictures of some lobsters he caught. Said he was going to go in to town and try to trade them for some beef.
Some days, I'm very jealous of him. |
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Actually, it was written by Kris Kristofferson and sung by Roger Miller View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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View Quote I read the book about him. Incredible man. |
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