Think of the money I’d save!

This was a favorite quip I heard from a Mafia money launderer I met at work. “He saved the coffee overnight in the fridge, drank it for breakfast in the morning and spent half the day in the washroom. But look at all the money he saved!”

Slow enough to really connect and see the region, but if you get into a shitty area you can get through it fast.

Found this segmented map of an Atlantic Coast bicycle tour, which is about 15 bucks a section for non-members, and I’m also querying some regional biking experts for advice:

http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/atlanticcoast.cfm?pg=more#top

Next time I go on a backpacking trip I am packing a waterproof bivvy sack and a really warm sleeping bag. If you are warm and dry you will be happy.

Hitchiking I think the less stuff you have the better. More likely to get picked up. You look stranded and more normal people will stop.

Hitchhiking is not really in style anymore. You will get the odd friendly hippy couple or group that will stop, other than that it seems like only various predatory types will stop. Plus the police usually stop.

I think that’s basically how it works out there…

I’m really curious if there are any “traditional” American overland pilgrimage routes. This is the closest thing I can think of offhand,

Washington didn’t have an easy road to travel.In fact, he used only two routes when riding from Virginia to Boston. The first, the Western Overland Route, was the equivalent of a colonial I-95.“ This route was lined with taverns, which were the Motel 6’s of the day,” says Adam Goodheart, Director of the C.V. Starr Center For the Study of the American Experience, located in Chestertown.

http://www.whatsupmag.com/life-style/p...cing_George_Washington_s_Travels.aspx

But man, it sucks being homeless there, with no job.

The day after my near drowning incident, though, I lived like a king. This guy let me rent this luxury cabin for 40 bucks. It was stocked with gourmet snack food and a 1995 bottle of Pino. Plus he shared a fat roach with me, while I was drying out my stuff on the wood stove and the next day gave me a ride into Eureka.

My luck on the road is mixed usually.

Washington didn’t have an easy road to travel.In fact, he used only two routes when riding from Virginia to Boston. The first, the Western Overland Route, was the equivalent of a colonial I-95.“ This route was lined with taverns, which were the Motel 6’s of the day,” says Adam Goodheart, Director of the C.V. Starr Center For the Study of the American Experience, located in Chestertown.

http://www.whatsupmag.com/life-style/p...cing_George_Washington_s_Travels.aspx

Rev. Heng Sure ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1976. For the sake of world peace, he undertook a “three steps, one bow” pilgrimage from South Pasadena to Ukiah, traveling more than eight hundred miles, while observing a practice of total silence.

I got a greyhound from Arcata and stayed in Monterey for a few days and slept on the beach, but it started raining again, so now I just got back to Monterey after three days on a bus. Met lots of other travellers, having mixed experiences hitch hiking, getting arrested picked up by drug addicts.

It won’t be boring.

http://www.appalachiantrail.org/site/c.../b.4850633/k.9733/Interactive_Map.htm

He was looking at a travelling journeyman, a craftsman who had served his apprenticeship and was now following tradition by arriving unannounced, to learn from an acknowledged master and to share his hospitality.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/nov/14/walkingholidays

Three young men are walking across Britain with no money, living wild and relying on the hospitality of strangers.

Not saying I’m definitely gonna go this route, but I’m heavily considering the possibilities opening up ahead of me…

In parts of Europe, as in later medieval Germany, spending time as a journeyman (Geselle), moving from one town to another to gain experience of different workshops, was an important part of the training of an aspirant master. Carpenters in Germany have retained the tradition of traveling journeymen until today, although only a small minority still practice it.

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/10/15/whats-a-journeyman/

which certified him as a journeyman and entitled him to travel to other towns and countries to learn the art from other masters. These journeys could span large parts of Europe and were an unofficial way of communicating new methods and techniques.

9 Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,

10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html

When you go into any region and walk about in the countryside, when people take you in, eat what they serve you and heal the sick among them.