I'm considering being a drifter

There's no place for me here. I've saved some money and I'm going to buy a plane ticket. Probably somewhere in europe. I just want the rest of my life to be interesting if nothing else.

Safty isn't a concern. If I survive it'll be good for my book. Any suggestions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG4ORLjFJVM&feature=related"]YouTube - Devil Doll - Eliogabalus - MR. Doctor I / III

I dread the great winged insects
And the cat-headed butterflies;
Above all the fleshy wings
Of the birds
Trying to clutch me
At times I thought
I was a glass bowl
And I trembled
Fearing ti be cracked
Or I felt as if
I had committed
A horrible crime
(But... which one?)
Sinking off (only)
At night

Then I was in a vast garden
And I cut the tree in the middle
"Tree of the knowledge
Of dood and evil"
Building a vessel
That I named "Narrenschiff"
And I sailed through
Black waves of clotted blood
Closing my eyes...

Whwn I opened them
I was sitting on the throne
With the terror
Of an endless hiccup
Anxiety
Not to walk on the lines
I carry on numbering things
'Till I forget how many
Then I start again...

I don't give a damn
For Caligula: just his horse!
And I'm bored by
Julius Caesar's
Thousands words
To cross the rubycon only

"The mirror! The mirror!
The mirrored life!"
Same and adverse
The real and its stage
Flesh and blood puppets
In the scene of the game
Bitches to power
The army is a ballet
Empty the treasure
In everyone's hands!

"The mirror! The mirror!
The mirrored life!"

Sitting along in the empty pit
Me
The laughing man
Innocent or absurd
Not as death
Living one instant
But as the planet
Diverse and deformed
Watching the earth
Beyond the mirror

Now you, just you:
Child
Staring at me from the world
- Biult on eternal repetitions -
Behind the mirror
Crack my world from side to side
Kill me with every day
To walk together
Upon the sea...

Life
Is a state
Of mind

 

it's expensive in europe, trust me - hitchhiked for a few months over the continent.

 

The plane ticket is the end of my savings either way.

 

I meandered around Cambodia for two months before a job fell in my lap. It's okay, but my days are now mostly spent planning savings and my next destination while I'm at work.

On the plus side it provides lots of free travel between Cambodia Vietnam and Thailand. I'm going somewhere remoter next move.

You will have to pay visas and stuff while you're drifting buddy. Hope you're good at adapting.

 

Lol I thought you met drifter like tokyo drift!!

 

more like Edo

 

central asia

the 'stans, xinjiang, mongolia, tuva

 

I think you're going to stand out...

 

That elludes to what is confusing me about this choice. I want something totally different from everything I know. I feel like my whole life so far has just served to show me what I don't like and what I don't want. Which is fine, great lets get it out of the way.

But at the same time, I don't really want to stand out or be overly alienated (language barriers, looking like a forigner). So it's a conundrum.

Expacally with the way people think of Americans out there. I don't want to make myself a target. But I'm at the point the fear of it wont prevent me from doing it anyway. I've been slipping through difficult situations as far back as I can remember lol

 

Damn coming from a european! It must b expensive.

 

drift across america then.

 

That's called being homeless. And there's nothing romantic about that.

Joking aside, no. I've seen enough here.

 

Europe sucks. GO nature, peace, love, go INDIA.

 

Go to Asia. It's cheap and awesome. India is especially cheap, it's like, 50 cents for a meal and a dollar for a hotel if nobody is taking you in because they love americans down there. Thailand is bonkers and is one of the chillest places in the world. If a policeman misses a shift or does something wrong he has to wear a pink Hello Kitty armband for a month. If you get robbed they only take like, 70% of your money at the most.

Go anywhere but South America, that place is fucked up especially for white people.

 

Well Sam, in all seriousness you can't rightly expect a place to be made for you- you have to do it yourself... whether that is here, Europe, India, or wherever. There's little you'll be able to do to fully disguise your place of origin. The frame of mind you take into a given situation will go a long way to determining whether you're to be happy in it.

 

Asia sounds amazing. They're mostly cool with white people over there these days? Being the only white dude around might freak me out a bit.

 

You could move to Japan and become a pop star. Japanese love the white man dong. Thai people don't care where you're from. Vietnamese don't give a shit either. Chinese are interested in anything.

 

I would suggest India...its cheap and if you're going to travel you might as well get as much of a culture shock as you can, why not?

I ran into an old friend of mine a few years ago. He told me he had just bought a plane ticket to Ireland, had absolutely no plans and only a couple hundred dollars saved up. I didn't hear from him again until a couple of months ago, he is now married to a total hottie of a western european and they live on a farm in Ireland. He's living the dream.

Don't let anyone tell you that you need a plan or that you need to save more money first, just do it! the plan will follow, or not..either way it will be an adventure.

 

It's settled then. :2thumbsup:

 

Can't rep you again so soon but +