Ask a hitchhiking hippy....

[CapnAwesome]

Ya got more guts than I do. I won't leave the states. Maybe Canada if the incentive is right.

Juggling/performing stoned. Again, more guts. I'd either get real paranoid or just fall down laughing. Neither to good for money.

Had some friends go to Nepal. Reliving their hippie days. The whole buddhism/sitar music/see god thing. Two got altitude sickness.

So when your hitchen, how much average weight do you carry? In fact, tell me every thing normally you carry. Also, are you practiced in survivalist skills?

Whats the attraction to Columbia and Mongolia?

I carry sometimes a ridiculous amount of weight. Way too much. I normally have:tent, sleeping bag, mat, all my rock climbing gear, clothes, juggling stuff. Maybe one pot and pan, my laptop. It doesn't sound like all that much, but it adds up. Climbing gear is heaviest. The high end is probably around 70lbs. Once I had all my stuff stolen in Lousiana and had only maybe 15 lbs of stuff afterwards. I also tend to hitch and then I'll either have a car or a girlfriend with a car and start to accumulate things again and end up with too much stuff when I go on the next hitching trip. Street performing stoned for me is easier. Actually I'm not sure that I could do it sober.

Nepal just doesn't do it for me, I guess because I don't give a shit about Buddhism. No, I don't know any survivalist skills. I think they are pretty silly actually. I've been to Columbia but only for a week or two and I want to spend more time there. Mongolia just sounds like an experience and there is also a lot of untouched rock climbing there I want to develop.