/lit/ - Literature

>>5297475
You sound super bitter, and are probably super dumb or anti-social if you can't find decent people to go do stuff with.

>>5297743
>>5299410

I just got back from a 6 week trip around the US, totally unplanned and cost me about $600. Couch-surfed, slept in campgrounds, stayed with friends, stayed with strangers. Got around with Greyhound, Mega-Bus, hitchhiking and sometimes just walking. You're dead wrong. It's uncomfortable and unsafe but still entirely possible and tons of people do it.

You are right about it being very romanticized. I had a good time, but sometimes it was fucking miserable. Never before was I so grateful for my upbringing and the fact I had a nice home and family to go back to. The kids out there doing it are mostly dumb. Not dumb like "naive" or "overly idealistic" (many of them are that too), dumb like, very unintelligent. Barely able to spell, dropped out of school, never went to school. Not everyone's like that, but most of the "Dirty Kids" you meet on the road are homeless and dumb and get by only with romanticizing their situation.

All of that said, I just bummed around for 6 weeks doing crazy stuff with my friends. Throughout the trip we were reading and writing and discussing, we were making and playing music. Myself and another friend write stories, one makes music and the other writes poetry and paints, and we all dabble in and contribute to each other's mediums and projects. I don't think we're exceptionally good at any of it, but that's not my point. If me and my friends do it, it's likely there's some others out there doing it.