Ask a hitchhiking hippy....

[Little lunch]

Another way to cut down on being hassled is to just smile and tell them you're local in their own language. :-)

In Vietnam, I had to ignore people because no means maybe.
Whilst in a shop, never look at the shopkeeper until your ready to buy and never let your gaze linger on any one object for too long, lest you want to know how much of a bargain it is and anything else that even looks like it. :-)

[CapnAwesome]

The street performing sounds cool. Sorry, more questions. How young did you start juggling and then performing? What do you juggle? Chain saw, bowling ball, apple? Had to look up poi. I had seen it before but never knew what it was called. Do they/you do the fire and light things?

I did the poor look for the 2 yrs while in the USVI. Just cuts down on being hassled.

Where would you like to travel to next?

Ask all the questions you like. I'm a narcissist (hence the username) and love to talk about myself. I started juggling when I was 22 or 23 (I'm 32), sometimes I get really really into it and other times not so much. I can juggle pretty much anything, sometimes street performing I get random objects from people and juggle them. I can eat an apple while juggling. I have fire juggling balls that you can hold with a bare hand, they have fireproof kevlar coating. My friend who I've street performed with spins fire really well, she has done a few fireshows at parties and stuff. I think there should be a sidenote about the street performing, I haven't really done it all that much and I have been high as hell every time I have.

I might go back to Columbia when it is their dry season, this time I'll just fly there and travel Columbia and Peru more extensively. I have big dreams of doing a long trip to Mongolia and some of the surronding areas, but that might be a few years off.

[brewer]

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?

[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.

[CapnAwesome]

How have you not been murdered immediately? It's hard enough to not be murdered at home.

I know that you are joking, but I really don't think about the danger of it all. I don't think that hitchhiking is a particularly dangerous thing to do. It used to be considered a really normal activity. I think the government has made an effort to stigmatize it in order to cut down on hippies. Not hitchhiking is even in drivers ed classes. What bullshit.

[Dystopia]

How would you recommend to take a shitload of stuff on my back if it doesn't fit inside my camping pack? I'm going camping soon (again) but I don't hitchhike, I just like being around nature and away from technology and urban life.

How do you manage to get enough money for that lifestyle? How hard do you work?

[CapnAwesome]

How would you recommend to take a shitload of stuff on my back if it doesn't fit inside my camping pack? I'm going camping soon (again) but I don't hitchhike, I just like being around nature and away from technology and urban life.

How do you manage to get enough money for that lifestyle? How hard do you work?

I have a 70 litre backpack, so I can fit pretty much the world in there. Normally you can pack your tent and sleeping mat on the outside, giving a lot of extra space on the inside. Also just try to minimize what you are going to bring. Or, buy a bigger backpack.

Right now I'm actually working a job that just happens to be the area that I was going to be hanging out in the summer for anyway. Sometimes stuff like that happens, but mostly I do intense seasonal labor and when I do it I do it really hard. Then the rest of the year I don't work at all.

[CapnAwesome]

I'm just bumping my own thread because I'm a narcissist.

[Edwardo Piet]

I'm just bumping your thread with an emoticon because I'm an awesome turtle.