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Uhh. Well definitely not the kid.
And I don't plan to ever stop living the way I live. I'd like to own a house or land, but not at the expense of giving up my free time for a full time all year round job. I agree I am young, but almost 34 isn't so young if I wanted to aim for the normal things.

 

Omg! lol

Those are handles? …

 

Beautiful

 

@Driftrue Those pictures are beautiful, but personally, I couldn't cope with that isolation for long. Living in Maine twice during the winter was bad enough!

 

Do you live in a big city?

 

Outside of Hartford, CT, yes. Not like Boston or NYC huge, but more than 70,000 at least. The first town I lived in with Maine was very remote once you were west of I-95/Maine Turnpike.

 

What isolation?
I've talked to more people in the past few months than I can count..
Including making a few friends I will see again next year,and a few who have my email address so may or may not be ongoing friends depending on them.
I've hung out in cafés. I've had deep conversations with people I'm hitch hiking with but never even got the names of. Felt very little like isolation. There was a period of four days on a particular track where I didn't see another human, but that isn't long.

 

OK. I stand corrected. Thank you for that! That's what I get for never having left the US in my whole life. SIGH!

 

Where would you want to go? If I lived in the states I would do what I've been doing here, there : ) you're in a great place because it's soooo big and there are warmer areas to go to in winter.

 

No You Wouldn't Have.......A Single Woman Hitchiking In The USA...??......Raped And Dead Within A Week......



Cheers Glen.

 

Canada first. When there's no virus scare and I had money? Europe. Probably England or France. If within the U.S.? Probably the west coast. Oregon or Washington, perhaps. I've never been west of Chicago or east of Bangor, ME (also my furthest north, while south would be Tampa, FL).

 

I can't 'like' that post but, sadly, if I were female there are a lot of things I wouldn't do that I now take for granted. It should not be like that.

 

Ah, I live in an area with half a million people, I dream of small town living.

 

Portland, ME would be nice for me. 12 miles away from the other town I once lived in (Old Orchard Beach). It feels much larger than the 65,000 people it actually has. Probably because it's the center of their metro area and it being Maine's largest city. (CT's largest is Bridgeport, which is far from being a palace!)

 

I’ve been to Portland, Oregon. I wonder if the towns have anything in common besides the name

 

I know PWM! I've never been to PDX. Maine has Casco Bay and then the Atlantic Ocean. Oregon has the Columbia River and the Washington state line. I would live in Maine again, despite the bad winters...IF I had a nice apartment and never have to rake, shovel or mow!

 

Challenge accepted.

 

Half joking : )
Maybe I'd go about that part differently. But I'd do the same thing in a general sense. The trails and constant movement.

 

Yeah I wouldnt hitchhike in the US.

Sometimes I'm wary to hike alone too, but usually feel ok about it with my dog with me.
There was a woman who was stabbed on the Appalachian trail maybe a year ago.
Fuck what's wrong with the US.

Actually seeing drift's pictures, that's something I've been thinking lately..how I would like to take a trip to New Zealand and the freedom of movement that would allow in a way I'm never going to feel safe doing in the US. Would be nice. It's on my bucket list now

 

i really had no idea that the US had so many killers driving around. i don't know, maybe if i was a woman i'd feel differently, but then i've gone places that people tell me as a guy not to go to and never been nervous or had any real issues there either.