Dont you just want to walk away!

yup. My friends and family think I am nutz but by now my family are used to it so they aren't as shocked as they were the first time I took off, over 25 years ago.

My biggest beef with society is the expectation that we are all expected to follow the same route through life. We are to expected to finish high school, go to college, get a job, find a spouse, have children, live in a brick and stick house in a gloomy sterile neighborhood, acquire material possessions and then acquire some more. Once we have followed our predestined pathway we can grow old :wheelchair: and die 'happy' that we accomplished everything that we were expected to.

Don't get me wrong. I think one of the most important things I ever did was to get a college education :scholar: and I will continue to study as long as I am capable but that is where my cookie cutter route changes course. In the end I will still die happy but I will be happy because I did what I wanted to and not what I was expected to.

Robert Frost said it best at the end of his poem The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference​

 

No need for name calling, and I don't see what I said as trolling at all. I was simply stating my opinion if you were planning on doing that. I'm glad that you're not, but yeah, name calling is NOT cool, and it makes YOU the troll.

 

I could use some new bait...

 

Sorrry man but i though people would give solutions not just rant because you misread somthing. Maby ask questions first...none of us would look like douchebags then. And at troll is someone who TROLLS around a website looking to bash people and their ideas, not defend their own name in theiir own post. Not lookin for a fight, just dont want to look like the monster you painted of me!

 

Not everyone is going to agree with your choices and you have to remember that when posting on a public forum. Just because someone disagrees with you does not make them a troll and does not mean they are bashing you. It may come as a surprise to you but not everyone here thinks exactly the same, if we did, it would be hella boring. And trust me, you don't have to school me in trolling... *cough...15,000+ posts, member for 5 years* I know a thing or two about trolling, and if I am trolling you, man, you will KNOW. lol

 

I am going to take off for a few weeks as a test once i get my passport, probably drive down to california and do a little road trip, being winter i have some work to do with insulation, but that is easy. i found out ive only got 14 more payments to make on my car and its all mine. I cant belive i am looking forward to living in a car but its only till i have enough experience in canada and money to travel abroad. Im glad to see other people share the same idea as I do.

Anyone got any suggestions, stories, or just lessons learned let me know!


please only constructive posting ^

 

Envious...
Good for you, getting the chance to go and at least try it out.
Keep us updated, I'd like to here anyway. More for me to know for If I get the chance sometime in the future.

 

That may be all you need. You never know.

Right on!
A lesson to add- if you throw in a few extra dollars each month with the instructions to apply it towards principle, you would be amazed how much it'll knock down the length of the loan.

Think of it like this-
Car loan, $4,500.
Loan period, 5 years.
Interest, 18% simple.
Payment, roughly $89/mo.
Throw in $20 per month towards principle, that's $240 per year.
Without the $20 per month, the capital is $4,050. But with the $20 per month ($240/yr.), that's now $3,767.
If my numbers are correct, that 5 year loan is through in 3 years 10-1/2 months.
Just a thought.

Man, I suggest that you stash some money where no one can get it. Like with family or friends. And IF something happens and you have no way of fixing it as you are, you have the money to fall back on.

 

Have fun and take the trip, you won't regret it.

Back in the 70’s, a friend of mine went with me for a hiking trip from California to Michigan. It took almost a year, because we zigzagged our way across the country, worked odd jobs for cash, met and spent time with people we met along the way and just enjoyed the trip in general.

It wasn’t all fun naturally, we were robbed twice and in Texas we had a pack of dogs harass us, until a state trooper came along (god bless Texas).

On the other hand, we met a couple of wild girls from Louisiana that still bring me grins when I think of them all these years later.

We went to a tent revival meeting in Missouri, just to see what it was all about, where an old couple met us and took us into their home for a couple days. They fed us well and the old man gave us a ride on our way of 50 miles or so, which ended with him buying us a farewell lunch, followed with a $20 bill and a god bless you on your journey.

This was the best experience I had as a young man; I met some of the best and worst people of this country. If was a younger man, I’d do it all over again in a hot minute.

 

YES
if someone would go with me i'd just run away and live in the forest

 

i'll join u all

 

If anyone is still interested I am heading out to the west coast, from Florida, via Virginia (picking up someone else) and will be going to a community in Arizona.

See my thread for more info http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=415388&f=57

 

I wish I could just head out sometimes, but I have attachments (mainly finishing my last semester of college and my parents who need my help). I would really love to just pick a direction and start walking though.

 

I'm leaving this spring if anyone would like to join me at some point, or even just to meetup and hang out for a day or two.
Been planning it since last summer and am finally able to leave.

probly gonna head out April-May 2011, so if anyone would like to meetup at somepoint or come along let me know.

Leaving from Connecticut, heading alll over the US

 

You should read the book Into the Wild about the life of Chris McCandless. I'm not recommending it to be like "he died in the end so you shouldn't do it because its bad" because I want to do the very same thing. I'm just saying its a great read for anyone who has that itch. Some other good books are Walden by Thoreau and of course The Hobbit by Tolkien.

I really want to break free from the hustle and grind of sucking corporate dick 8 hours a day 40+ hours a week. I think that is my number one goal in life. If the purpose of money is to survive (food, water, clothes, shelter) then why not cut out the middle man (corporations and institutions) and just live? I have seen through the bullshit of the American Dream, I have taken off my rose colored glasses, and my next step is to head west away from this cesspool of greed.

 

i pretty much have the same thing going on with my life. lately i've become pretty disillusioned with the way i've been living. this working to get money to pay rent and bills and buy things you don't really need....it's sick. my job is not so bad but it is stressful at times. i work for a recording studio and on better days i can pretty much come and go as i please, but when we have some major project in it's work 24/7. those days i only get enough free personal time to go home to get some sleep. when i wake up i go back to work. all for what---to make a name, make a career. i don't even care about those things anymore. not when it's like this.
on top of that i'm studying architecture in college, and i think that is truly the only thing that is keeping me locked in this circle right now. i would like to graduate, but then again once i do i'll only get in deeper in this...

i really do just want to pack up all the essential things i have, sell the rest of my useless crap and go live in a hut in the mountains or something.

 

If we got enough people together with like minds it could totally happen and be amazing.

 

i agree. that would be amazing. and i truly hope i can find myself there at some point in not too distant future...