Has Anyone Felt Like Leaving Everything

kida · September 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">and...</div> just to travel. No, not vacation. Actual traveling with little to no money, risking the chances of death at the price of adventure. Perhaps with a good trusted buddy. I'm sure there are people in the world who are crazy enough to do this. Such dreams...

Marik_Steele · September 2004

I imagine that if someone decided to drop themselves into the middle of a random spot on the west coast of the US with one old backpack starting with nothing but a change of clothes, a $5, and a journal to write the story of how he/she got to Washington D.C, New York, or Miami, they might just write something good enough for people to want to buy it.

[edit]Not that I'm suggesting you do so, I'm just saying you're not the only one who thinks about the topic of living on the move, travelling light.

Swiftspear · September 2004

When I used to go out at night for a jog or something, sometimes I used to just think "I'm just going to start walking, and not stop until the world forces me to" but I always got pulled back by the fact that I had people back home who loved me, and responsibilties to see through. Its a nice fantasy though, maby one day (ya right, way to hard to just drop life like that <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /> )

Chrono · September 2004

ive been considering to do this since i was 5 years old <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' />

jumpingjoda · September 2004

This dream is as old as the humanity itself. To go far away, where no one knows you, to forget everything you know and be someone else.... (man i love jin-roh)

[WHO]Them · September 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swiftspear @ Sep 20 2004, 12:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> When I used to go out at night for a jog or something, sometimes I used to just think "I'm just going to start walking, and not stop until the world forces me to" but I always got pulled back by the fact that I had people back home who loved me, and responsibilties to see through. Its a nice fantasy though, maby one day (ya right, way to hard to just drop life like that <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /> )  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Run Forrest, Run!!!!

DOOManiac · September 2004

Just remember to eat. Also remember people won't feed you. So get used to catching food...

Swiftspear · September 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Sep 20 2004, 03:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Just remember to eat. Also remember people won't feed you. So get used to catching food...  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
go to macdonalds, look for the oldest or weakest person you can find, grab thier frys, run. Seriously, who is gonna care about a pack of frys in the long run? as long as you never do that in that particular macodonalds again, which shouldn't be too big of an issue when you are walking to a undifined location indefinately, it should just remain in people's memories as a freek occurace till the end of time. For long highway walks, spend a couple days squegeeing car windows and use the money to stock up on nuts dried fruit and granola, you know, stuff that you don't have to eat much of to be full.

Mr_Chuckletrousers · September 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Sep 20 2004, 03:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Just remember to eat. Also remember people won't feed you. So get used to catching food...  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Yes, I think that's whats holding most of us back

camO_o · September 2004

First I'll publicize my plan to sell everything, learn japanese, and hike through Japan with no money for the next decade in search of wisdom.

I will then make a website where I will drastically exaggerate the amount of sympathy mail and offers to donate money and supplies.

Next, I will make a paypal account and reap the awards.

Then, I'll take a vacation in Japan or something, and take pictures of myself struggling up a cliff.

kida · September 2004

.lol. Mcdonalds. I have so many free bigmac coupons.

UnderDOG · September 2004

Read the book "Into the Wild" this is pretty much exactly (the first poster) what is it about

Private_Coleman · September 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swiftspear @ Sep 20 2004, 03:23 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> go to macdonalds, look for the oldest or weakest person you can find, grab thier frys, run.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Donut king is better, you ask for a milkshake and a donut.

The milkshake is a decoy, usually they will put the donut in a bag and place it on top of the counter, THEN go make the shake.

Not that I've ever done this...

>_>

<_<

*runs*

Mantrid · September 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (camO.o @ Sep 20 2004, 12:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> First I'll publicize my plan to sell everything, learn japanese, and hike through Japan with no money for the next decade in search of wisdom.

I will then make a website where I will drastically exaggerate the amount of sympathy mail and offers to donate money and supplies.

Next, I will make a paypal account and reap the awards.

Then, I'll take a vacation in Japan or something, and take pictures of myself struggling up a cliff.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Pfft, it's easy to survive in Japan. Just sell you're panties.

SaltzBad · September 2004

Its one of those things you just need to try until you figure out how much it sucks. Or you don't try it and keep the phantasy alive - probably better that way <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' />

UnCritical · September 2004

If you feel like doing it, just do it. Or better yet, do what I did and do a small little test, say a month. If you don't like it, then its all good.
If your like me and did like it, start saving as much as you can and then just go.

Odd jobs to keep your bank balence from plummeting too fast are easy enough to find if you aint picky.

Ambassador · September 2004

There was a guy that did that, but he did it to follow the trail of the Mormons creation or something. The guy sold all of his furniture and personal belongings. He hiked across the U.S. following journals that are in the churches history. All he had with him was his money and a journal. I think the journal is a book now and he died somewhere in the northwest.

Interesting idea though.

jumpingjoda · September 2004

If i had nothing to hold me back i would do it. Damn consumer society.

"If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?"
"Losing all hope was freedom."
"The things you used to own, now they own you."
-Fight Club-

UZi · September 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mr Chuckletrousers @ Sep 20 2004, 03:24 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Sep 20 2004, 03:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Just remember to eat. Also remember people won't feed you. So get used to catching food... </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Yes, I think that's whats holding most of us back  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Obveously you don't know the wonderful taste of hobos.

moultano · September 2004

I know a guy who did this actually. For his 18th birthday, his parents bought him a plane ticket to London, and a second plane ticket home 6 months later. He went all over europe and parts of the middle east during that time with nothing more than some clothes, toiletries and a small amount of money. This guy has some of the most amazing stories to tell that I have ever heard, one of which involves him accidentally getting married.

Perdition · September 2004

If you're going to do this, do it in Germany, you can get free supper daily.

See, in Germany, if someone shows up at your door during supper, you're supposed to invite them in, and it's bad manners to say no when you are invited in!

Atleast, that's what i've been led to believe through my years of not paying attention during German classes.

jumpingjoda · September 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Perdition Flamethrower @ Sep 20 2004, 05:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> If you're going to do this, do it in Germany, you can get free supper daily.

See, in Germany, if someone shows up at your door during supper, you're supposed to invite them in, and it's bad manners to say no when you are invited in!

Atleast, that's what i've been led to believe through my years of not paying attention during German classes.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
I really don't know where you got this from <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' />

UltimaGecko · September 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (jumpingjoda @ Sep 20 2004, 12:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Perdition Flamethrower @ Sep 20 2004, 05:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> If you're going to do this, do it in Germany, you can get free supper daily.

See, in Germany, if someone shows up at your door during supper, you're supposed to invite them in, and it's bad manners to say no when you are invited in!

Atleast, that's what i've been led to believe through my years of not paying attention during German classes. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I really don't know where you got this from <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
...because it's customary for people in Germany to eat people who ask to be eaten.

...The crazy ones anyway.

I want to buy a mobile home and travel around living in it for a year or so. Maybe with some satellite internet. Barring that, I could just live at my grandparents house for a year or so. Plenty of deer, squirrels and fish to hunt, and plenty of guns for hunting them. Okay, no so much for the fish.

The fish are a bit dead now. Few perch left around there. Anyway...

I think I'm a bit too shy to go running around a country, but if I had the money, just to see stuff, I think it'd be fun <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /> .

Rob · September 2004

It's not so much posessions holding me back as it is my weekly shows. If I don't get to watch them, I become less of a person each passing week... until either a) I'm loose all compsure and cry like a baby in the corner, or b) I learn not to let fictional characters rule my life to the point where I'm so obsessed I can't even go anywhere without make sure to set the VCR...

I'm thinkin it would be A....

...God I'm pathetic....

Swiftspear · September 2004

Acctually, thinking about the whole food issue a little more deeply... Its a little known fact, but if you walk into any seihk temple in the entire world, they will allow you to eat and sleep (and possibly bathe, I'm not sure about that one though) for a whole week, absolutly no questions asked. At very least a seihk temple would serve as an ownage base of operations for window washing/random jobs that could get you the money and resourses to get to the next major city.

Siehk food is friggin good too, and thier temples are so nice, with tonnes and tonnes of soft carpet. On top of it all, they will teach you punjab for free if you ask them too, so going from temple to temple for a reasonably long ammount of time, you could quite possibly learn punjab in your spare time, which might not be nessicary, but is certainly cool.

I personally think the christian churches could learn alot from these guys.

Confuzor · September 2004

I've kind of had this fantasy envisioned lately where I'd just go out as a wanderer through various cities, wearing some really outlandish clothes, maybe like <a href='http://s95094929.onlinehome.us/stuff/concepts/Misc/desertdude.jpg' target='_blank'>this guy</a>. Along my travels, my two most notable possessions would be a staff and a harmonica, and maybe some miscellaneous items. I'd basically go around as a sort of street performer, playing the harmonica, flaunting some martial arts abilities, telling stories and singing folkish songs <a href='http://s95094929.onlinehome.us/stuff/tunes/Wade%20Hemsworth%20-%20The%20Blackfly%20Song.mp3' target='_blank'>like this one</a>. So in a way, I'd be a sort of jester, or harlequin - I remember the medieval ages had this type of person who'd travel along countryside to perform... can't remember what they're called... no wait, I remember now: a Minstrel. I'd be a minstrel who also knew martial arts.

Through my dependence on the generosity of others, hopefully I'd be able to survive.

And at night, I'd travel the slums and alleys as a sort of vigilante... maybe thwacking the begeezus out of drug dealers and other low-life pond scum with my staff.

Hmm... looks like I'm mistaking myself for a superhero now...

Cold_NiTe · September 2004

Always the black flies no matter wherever you go.

North Ont-air-I-oo.

Geminosity · September 2004

I get that feeling all the time; it's half the reason I play games.
No idea why but deep down I'm driven to see new places and get huge surges of excitement from exploring the unknown =D

I'm happiest in a coach travelling through a pitch black night with rain pattering off the windows as a freezing cold draft utters through the vehicle wrapping itself around your ankles and sending chills through you.
That or walking... anywhere! The less I have a clue of where I am the happier I get ^^

Luckily I don't seem capable of being lost. Ever.
Trust me I've tried; oh how I tried, but no matter where I end up I can find my way out/back pretty easy even without knowing where to go =o

I love riding boats on the open sea too; the cool salty air combing through my hair and caressing my skin while beneath the blue waves a teeming world full of life looks up through the glassy surface. Ironically I'm practically phobic of water I can't see the bottom of... not sure if it's due to my imagination, those couple of times I almost drowned or that boat trip where we drove alongside a whale so big it could've flicked the boat into oblivion without realising we were there o.O

Um but yeah; getting back on topic I get that feeling lots. I kinda indulge myself a little with it by going on long walks or cycling off to heck knows where with a friend... not quite the same as the full blown experience but I get to come back to a cooked meal and the internet ^~

DiscoZombie · September 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (UnderDOG @ Sep 20 2004, 07:17 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Read the book "Into the Wild" this is pretty much exactly (the first poster) what is it about  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
bah, you beat me to it. awesome book. very sad though.

the_x5 · September 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([WHO]Them @ Sep 20 2004, 03:09 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swiftspear @ Sep 20 2004, 12:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> When I used to go out at night for a jog or something, sometimes I used to just think "I'm just going to start walking, and not stop until the world forces me to" but I always got pulled back by the fact that I had people back home who loved me, and responsibilties to see through. Its a nice fantasy though, maby one day (ya right, way to hard to just drop life like that <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /> ) </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Run Forrest, Run!!!!  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
LoL <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /> You're so mean. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

[WHO]Them · September 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (agentx5 @ Sep 20 2004, 01:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([WHO)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Them,Sep 20 2004, 03:09 AM] </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swiftspear @ Sep 20 2004, 12:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> When I used to go out at night for a jog or something, sometimes I used to just think "I'm just going to start walking, and not stop until the world forces me to" but I always got pulled back by the fact that I had people back home who loved me, and responsibilties to see through. Its a nice fantasy though, maby one day (ya right, way to hard to just drop life like that <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /> ) </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Run Forrest, Run!!!! </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
LoL <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /> You're so mean. <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
It's not really meant to be mean.

If anyone remembers the story in Forrest Gump, he started jogging one day, and just kept going...and going.....and going.

But I had hoped that saying saying "Run Forrest! Run!" would be the shortcut to reminding people of that.

The end...

I'm not evil.....

Scout's honor.....

So what if I was never a scout?

Shut up, I'M NOT EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!

Has Anyone Felt Like Leaving Everything

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