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I don't know where you could have possibly heard a rumor that I'm
getting bored and want to trainhop, but it's absolutely true. I'm sort
of puzzled, because I don't remember telling anyone else about it; I
guess I'm just transparent sometimes. I got two books out of the
library, one on trainhopping and one on freight hoppers and hoboes and
life on the rail, on my way home I had to stop by the tracks to let a
train go by.... it was moving so slowly, it would have been so easy to
hop.... I nearly wept. I've been planning for a long time to spend
several months to a year living by my wits, beginning with the summer
after I graduate. I'm going to walk to the East Durham freight yard, hop
on the first train I can (hopefully the H-line going West), and see where
I end up; I want to sleep outside, in shelters if I have to, and eat off
of what I can find, or in soup kitchens if I have to, and work manual
labour picking apples or some such; I want to panhandle and get
foodstamps. Basically, I just want an adventure and I want to prove to
myself that I can be happy without many material possessions; I want to
really live and I want to see things and just do something *completely*
different and new. The thing is, I'm no longer sure that I can wait that
long... two years until graduation.... So now I'm thinking that maybe I
can find a week or two somewhere to go off and have myself a
mini-adventure, maybe during Christmas Break.
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