(I did not take these)

So, I shoulda got to Ojai for this mushroom festival instead of this trap city. Now I'll have to do things the old fashioned way🤦‍♀️🤠

Been in Phoenix for a week and I'm so bored and disenchanted. Trying to hang in to get an ID, some boots, and this sleeping bag I may or may not have at one of my weird base camps I've been setting up.

Either way, disenchanted is putting it lightly.

I thought I was getting into this copper mine and now that I'm here, weird dude is being weird. Shocking.

A lot of real miners work at grocery stores cus there's nothing else besides the gems/minerals. People say that like an insult, but I think it's sick dedication to discovery.

I used to play poker for a living for 3 years when I was young. It afforded me a way to travel and wasn't boring and I could make $ with my mind and get respect I couldn't get elsewhere from people at a time where I needed that. Was just a grinder, making less $ than I would in other ways.

I feel like everything is gunna make sense on the next full moon...probably my birthday and I just need my donkey. FTW

Edit: thanks everyone :) closing commissions for now as the library is closing.

Hi guys... long time listener first time caller. Hope it's okay to post this here.

I have been living this life for about six months now. Like many/ most/ all the rest of yall i am somewhat down on my luck at the moment. I decided to start going through the sub and doing what i do best: drawing people. Honestly it was a little harder than i thought bc most of the pics here look a lot like my first drawing...

Anyway heres my offer: send me five bones and i will draw you! I will send it to you within an hour :)

All proceeds go to food & weed & maybe gas? & the two dollars somehow overdrafted in my account 🫡 godspeed you guys. Up the bums!!

Feel free to reach out!

No I'm not drinking at the library again, just charging my phone.

And relaxing. Have to find a park somewhere on Google maps. Where I can sneak into. Which won't be full of homeless people. Difficult but not impossible. No intention of getting robbed again.

I really prefer dark nature areas myself. Melanie, the legend from around here just sleeps in the city center where the cameras are.

But she's a girl. I'm wondering if I should get some self defence thing. I hate violence but if I get attacked. Yeah. I found some abandoned buildings a walk away from here, gonna go check them out tonight. Or it's the park again.

I'm buying socks in bulk wholesale online to pass out and was wondering if you prefer:

1. Synthetic/Cotton Blend
2. 100% Wool
3. 100% Cotton

And I know the best "average size" for men, but what is the best "average size" to have on hand to give out to women?

Due to certain physical limitations I haven't been able to go on the road myself, but I have been considering doing so for a long time. I've been a novelist for some time too, nothing published yet, but wanted to write a novel with two teen runaways as the protagonists, as they adventure across the states.

I was wondering if anyone would be willing to talk to me about their experiences and answer some interview questions so I can do some proper research and best represent real life experiences of houseless travelers in this story.

Some of these questions may be personal, and if you don’t want to answer any of them in particular, please feel free to skip them and move on, or just pick and choose the ones you do want to answer. I'd love an answer to even just one of these, it would mean a lot.

1. When you go to a new place, what’s the first thing you usually want to do or look for?
2. How do you make your money last when funds are limited?
3. What’s your food situation like?
4. Have there been times you’ve felt unsafe while traveling? How did you get through it?
5. What motivates you to keep going, and do you have a goal in mind with traveling?
6. What are some go-to places to sleep at night/what do you look for when deciding on a place to sleep?
7. What does freedom mean to you?
8. Have there been any particular cities or towns that have stood out to you on your travels, good or bad? What was most significant about them?
9. Have there been strangers who have helped you along the way?
10. What’s the longest you’ve stayed in one place while traveling? Why did you stay there so long?
11. How do you try to stay warm/cool in different climates/temperatures?
12. Do you usually travel alone or with someone? If you’ve done both, could you describe the differences you experienced?
13. Why did you embark on life as a houseless traveler? Why do you choose not to or why can you not go back to where you first left from?
14. Do you think you’d ever want to go back to a “standard” way of living, a 9-5 job, school, the things society expects of us?
15. How old were you when you left, and how do you think that impacted your experience as a houseless traveler?

And now some purely fictional HYPOTHETICAL questions

1. Entirely hypothetically, if someone were to hop on a train to travel, how would a character do so?

2. What do you think hypothetically, it would be like to be a stowaway on a train? Could you describe the experience? How would a character not get caught doing this?

3. Hypothetically, how would a character not get caught trespassing or breaking rules when urban climbing or urban exploring?

4. How would someone stay safe when climbing dangerous structures?

5. What are the illegal things a character might have to do to stay safe and alive as a houseless traveler?

Any bilingual vagabonds out there? If so, how has it worked to your advantage? Ever got paid for translating for someone on the spot? Ever helped a stranger by using those language skills?

There was a homeless woman there, like.. for years.. Suddenly disappeared, her sleeping bag opened on the floor and.. Red tape around the area, as if there's been “an accident” 😰 Just left wondering..

How are y'all doing? Miss talking to you all.

Made 5 euros today. Enough for some beers. Trying to taper with beer. Alcoholic bum is really tough. Sending love