Couchsurfing, hitchhiking and travel. Do it!

[iqqi]

kudos to you for not being herded into some corral, like most sheep.

I am inspired!

 

[Bluntmaster]

I have a comment on my couchsurfing profile from a hot German girl about dumpster diving with me if someone would like to verify (I'd prefer iggi or Kerpal to check as we go back).



I have no reason to lie about this, I have nothing to sell and no one to impress as I no longer hang out here. I just want to help you guys because I took so much from this place. Yes you have to get a visa and yes I call girls from Europe European, since I have a thing for girls from any country in Europe. That isn't even one of my good stories, I've had a threesome in a backpackers with two Brazilians and been skinning dipping with over ten others and a girl under each arm. Back home I got nothing.

This can be sustained into your 40's at least. Once you have experience you can work snow seasons, bar work, be a river guide, diving instructor, pick fruit or just do freelance writing, programming, graphic design using the skills you taught yourself along the way. I know a 60yo who makes good money just teaching English in Asia and eastern Europe. After that I could even go back to university and get a degree but my plan is to become a journalist. You can also do things like work a regular job 6 months of every year and hang out in Asia or south America for the rest. Read the vagerbonding book, that guy is getting on. I've met many people who have been doing this for at least 10 years.

I can't understand why a person would waste their 20's chasing a career, this is your prime!

You will always get haters, but that will never phase you when you are having the best time of your life.

If you like working day in and day out than good for you, but I can't live that life.

Here's a blog of a PUA from 'the game' living a similar life http://tynan.net/ and http://www.rooshv.com/

Let's see some pics of these girls. Until then, it never happened.

 

[search1ng]

Actually sounds really awesome, even the dumpster diving, haha.


Only thing is I've already invested so much of my time into the current path I'm going that to leave it all for such a wild adventure (even though I would surely learn so, so much) would be counter-productive to what I'm after.

Definitely in a few years time.

 

[wolf116]

I don't dumpster dive anymore as I have some extra cash from working at a club.

I just found out about a group of anarchists building a sailing boat to become sea gypsies over in Norway. My two years of engineering may come in handy after all. Anarchist's like to dumpster dive so that may be on the cards again

 

[Mr.Positive]

You will always get haters, but that will never phase you when you are having the best time of your life.

Sounds like you are having the best time of your life too!

I believe ya wolf, great to hear you are still livin' the life. Cool to see this thread bumped back up.

Regarding dumpster diving, it's free food that would just go to waste. Also, by doing that, you are showing people that you have no insecurities about it. That in itself, can be a magnet to women. Not the diving..but the whole mentality.

Yes, the travelling man generally meets tons of women. More people should try it, especially guys on this site.

 

[EFFORT]

Hey wolf I'm glad that your having such a good time. Very inspirational seeing someone take action for there life and make things happen.

 

[comic_relief]

Yes, the travelling man generally meets tons of women. More people should try it, especially guys on this site.

I do bike tours across the USA with different groups and my entire life paradigm has changed greatly since I have started travelling. I just wish more people would go with me from my area so they understand the difficulty and leap of faith it takes to do this sort of life style.

Most people just think that I am a bum but I disagree. Just because I do my stuff for charities and don't get paid doesn't mean that I did not waste my summer.

- comic_relief

 

[BigJimbo]

Let's see some pics of these girls. Until then, it never happened.

Eh, anyone can go pull up a few pics of girls from some East European social networking site. Seriously, it is so silly that only a teenage boy in America would believe it. Dumpster diving? Uh, no decent girl is going to get turned on by a guy who is a bum. That is insane. The problem with this forum is too many young boys have been watching too much Hollywood crap and have mothers who are horrible at mothering.

Lets not forget. America makes people think that money is not important. Only in places like England, America, Canada, and Australia is it cool to NOT act wealthy. In other cultures people tend to flaunt what they have. Go watch how the girls go to their college classes in most East European countries. TOTALLY different than what you see on the hell that is American campuses. TOTALLY!!! The girls flaunt their looks and dress to kill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7h_TcUSXlA
Eh, just go to one of the Bulgarian social networking sites (Limpa is big in many East European places) and say that one of these girls wants to dumpster dive with you :crackup: . If you know anything about East European girls you know how funny that sounds. Now, if you step out of a nice hotel, or if you step out of a nice bar/cafe you might just feel like the luckiest man alive. It isn't an Anglo world Those girls can smell money a mile away.

 

[Matt281]

I'm pretty set on doing the same thing for a year or two. I guess I should read Vagabonding, but for now:

Beyond dumpster diving, what can you do for cheap food? This is the only thing I'm truly worried about if I just take off.

And work - someone mentioned you can't do most jobs in europe without a work visa, plus in spain especially (where I want to start) the economy is quite bad - how do you find work? I mean, lots of people are having trouble finding work in America, much less while vagabonding few contacts or friends.

Finally, do you find you can find somewhere to sleep most nights through couch surfing? what do you do when you can't?

Thanks

 

[Mr.Positive]

Finally, do you find you can find somewhere to sleep most nights through couch surfing? what do you do when you can't?

Thanks

park bench surfing. I never did do the couch surfing thing, but if I was younger, that sounds like a great way to meet people.

My advise, to you, is to have at least some money as a backup to your adventure. Hostels are pretty cheap, and you can research cheap local food places. In Poland, I ate a lot at milk bars (bar mileshcny, or something like that) Milk bars are subsidized by the gov. for cheap food. A whole meal at the time was less than $2. Find places like that.

 

[wolf116]

Eh, anyone can go pull up a few pics of girls from some East European social networking site. Seriously, it is so silly that only a teenage boy in America would believe it. Dumpster diving? Uh, no decent girl is going to get turned on by a guy who is a bum. That is insane. The problem with this forum is too many young boys have been watching too much Hollywood crap and have mothers who are horrible at mothering.

Lets not forget. America makes people think that money is not important. Only in places like England, America, Canada, and Australia is it cool to NOT act wealthy. In other cultures people tend to flaunt what they have. Go watch how the girls go to their college classes in most East European countries. TOTALLY different than what you see on the hell that is American campuses. TOTALLY!!! The girls flaunt their looks and dress to kill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7h_TcUSXlA
Eh, just go to one of the Bulgarian social networking sites (Limpa is big in many East European places) and say that one of these girls wants to dumpster dive with you :crackup: . If you know anything about East European girls you know how funny that sounds. Now, if you step out of a nice hotel, or if you step out of a nice bar/cafe you might just feel like the luckiest man alive. It isn't an Anglo world Those girls can smell money a mile away.

But can they pull up pitures with themselves in the photo. The couchsurfing references can not be forged. they include a photo. She's a media student, and is now looking to do a small documentary on it.

 

[wolf116]

I'm pretty set on doing the same thing for a year or two. I guess I should read Vagabonding, but for now:

Beyond dumpster diving, what can you do for cheap food? This is the only thing I'm truly worried about if I just take off.

And work - someone mentioned you can't do most jobs in europe without a work visa, plus in spain especially (where I want to start) the economy is quite bad - how do you find work? I mean, lots of people are having trouble finding work in America, much less while vagabonding few contacts or friends.

Finally, do you find you can find somewhere to sleep most nights through couch surfing? what do you do when you can't?

Thanks

Learn to eat cheaply, oatmeal, ground beef, beans, eggs, veggie markets.

Guys with trouble getting visas can do wwoof'ing. I'm thinking of doing it in norway building a sailing ship. Its work in exchange for food and board, so its not paid. or just travel your own country. Find the countries you can get a visa and travel there. Or just save in America 6months of the year then travel the 3rd world the other 6 months on your savings.

In england i've been living at the pubs ive been working at, you can look for squats, couchsurfing, friends you made traveling, backpackers are ok if you have a job to pay for it. I've been homeless only one night, I followed a stranger into a block of flats and slept in a fire escape on the top landing -no one uses the stairs on the top floor-

 

[wolf116]

I'm back in my home town, but it still feels like I'm traveling. I've learnt so much and have read maybe twenty books since my last post in this thread.

I lived in a squat in London for the last few months and met the most amazing people. Life is a game for these people and I was a child again roaming the city at night. I've learnt about everything from drugs to postmodernist feminism, anarchism and activism. I spoke to nihilists about literature and meditated with new age hippies. I got in a fist fight with some neo-nazies and was beaten by a cop at a protest against police brutality. I learnt to cook vegan food and saw a bunch of indie films at underground cinemas. I met some punks and they really do smell but are ever so friendly.

I met a Polish waitress and she took me into her home for a few weeks and I would hang out with all these Polish people who could hardly speak English. We would go to bohemian parties and smoke pot a lot and I would laugh at the situation and they would laugh at me laughing at them. Then we would eat Polish food.

I met the most amazing girl -full arm tattoos and a shaved head except for her fringe- who was basically a full time computer hacker. She didn't do anything amazing, she just loved learning about computers and refused to compromise her interest. She taught me about formal logic and we played video games. I fell in love.

I'm back in my home city for a while to visit my mother and I was getting depressed at how boring everything was in comparison. Then I thought about what I'd do if I was travelling and visiting this place. I got in contact with some local volunteer groups, hippies, anarchists and weirdos and life is awesome again.

Please think before following the standard career path. For many people it's the right path but some of us seek a different life, a life of adventure, free time, and meaningful relationships where you are judged by the content of your character not by your car, clothes and job.

Helping others can be more rewarding than helping yourself. Get involved in your community.

I just wanted to share a different life that is alien to most of the misogynist Ayn Rand capitalists on this forum.

Don't get me wrong, this lifestyle has it's drawbacks and I'm not sure what I'll do when I age or get sick again. I still plan on going back to university one day. Maybe I'll have to live out in the forest in a hippie commune. Could be fun.

All I know is I no longer have social problems, girl problems or depression and I have learnt so much more than I ever did at university and it only took one year.