usa doesnt have public transack - /trv/

Anonymous07/20/26, 19:47No.2897589USA doesn't have public trans-ACK

Yes it does, and I'm gonna have a good time summerbumming from town to town around the mountains on these state-operated buses.

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Anon07/20/26, 19:51No.2897592

>but you can't get around the city without a car Also wrong. See all the red lines, they are bus routes. City bus transport is excellent in even a podunk wornout city like Pueblo, Colorado. $3.75 to ride around all day in the A/C.

Anon07/20/26, 19:55No.2897593

Forgot pic.Just saw a strung out shirtless tweaker walking his little tweaker bike right behi d an ugly old woman, she told him to stop following her but he kept at it. I moved to intervene, but she ducked into the bus station (where security is posted) and tweakerdude pedaled away.Nobody messes with me of course, because I look like a square. Most of my interactions so far in USA have been very positive. One guy did ask if I was a gangstalker. Had a great chat with a small town grandma on the bus to Pueblo this morning. Also met a crazy woman who claimed to be from Tasmania.

Anon07/20/26, 20:00No.2897594

Filled out my first job app as a homeless guy. The greenskeeper was a great guy, but he didn't need any help at the moment. Pueblo is sunny and warm and dry, but I just don't feel like it's the right place for me to settle down.Riding to Walsenburg this afternoon. Gonna stop at the downtown Safeway for some vittles before roughing it for my first full night as a 100% free man. Food on this trip is for nutrition and energy only. I've stopped caring about flavor.Picrel from the trip across northern New Mexico

Anon07/21/26, 04:31No.2897692

Everyone knows the USA has relatively okay public transportation and has known for some time. Small town in midwest probably has some bus service of some kind even like Joplin or even North Dakota of all places has buses.Most Americans when they say "no public transport" what they mean is no 5 minute walk to a subway like they had in Europe or Japan the one time they went and booked a hotel right outside station. They also mean "transportation without niggers" by the people who "aren't racist just careful" white women who can't fathom taking the bus.The worst part of the US public transport system is just the lack of caring for who gets on and what they do once on the bus/lightrail/train. If you gave every bus driver a gun and told them they can kick anyone off being disruptive for any reason, made that the law and enforce it. People would probably start taking public transport. Unfortunately we have people who will scream about no HSR and how not allowing the dindunuffun crackhead on the bus be racist so the system faulters. Even if we got Japan level train systems tomorrow in every major city, most people would stop using it after 5 tries because of the utter shittfication of them overnight.

Anon07/21/26, 05:35No.2897706

kek, this LARPing tard is talking to russians now, is your bullshit going to turn into some pro-ukie screed now, Saul?

Anon07/21/26, 15:52No.2897806

Saw this extremely cute bat half the length of my finger snoozing on a garage door on Main Street

Anon07/21/26, 16:04No.2897809

Small town USA. So many parks, benches, libraries, senior centers, plazas and other public amenities available for usage. You'd think the people would hate bums, but everyone is friendly, much more so than when I traveled by car. My luggage is compact, my clothing is neat, I am sane, sober and optimistic, looking for opportunities and conversations with anyone I encounter. Basically the ideal vagabond in the eyes of Americans. A Native American guy also headed to Walsenburg on the bus gave me some pointers. This morning I hitched a ride 15 miles to La Veta in a veteran biker's pickup truck. We had a great /pol/ tier conversation about modern women and social decay. He said people are very fucked up here, despite the lovely surroundings, and the owner of the golf course I was looking to work at is a horrible bitch who screwed him over on pay, promising 20 then paying 15. Time will tell what happens to me here. Worst case I trudge the 15 miles back to Walsenburg. For once my travels feel completely dynamic and unpredictable. Nothing at all mundane about being a vagabond in America. And it's so comfy. Blue skies, mild summer temps, low humidity, no mosquitoes, a sack of food and a jug of water ensuring my self-reliance.

Anon07/21/26, 16:23No.2897814

Seattle public transit is absolutely fucking amazing. Same with the weather. Lock me up in this 15 minute city idgaf. I can walk a block to get beer, walk 2 blocks to get a pizza, walk 3 blocks to get donuts and coffee and then half a block to my cigarette smoking park with comfy benches that overlooks the city.

Anon07/21/26, 16:37No.2897821

In Thailand I threw away my sandals for a $2 pair of walking shoes, in case my current shoes wear through, get soaked, or get used in some filthy jobsite. A second pair of shoes is a significant amount of weight, however. All these choices to hold onto items really add up. That stupid Anker Bluetooth speaker really has to go, it's dead weight with zero practical use, but I still haven't chucked it because I will want music to start my workday.Free WiFi and also outlets for phone charging in this town park? Hardly believable. No other country would have such great public amenities in a literal middle of nowhere town.

Anon07/21/26, 17:17No.2897834

Americans are such pussies when it comes to heat. Yesterday it was a dry sunny 95° in Pueblo and so many people were bitching. I felt perfectly comfy in the shade.

Anon07/21/26, 20:42No.2897861

I spent $0 on this hitchhiking daytrip to La Veta. It was scenic and tranquil, but a dry hole. No room available, no need for help at the parched golf course, no public transport, no real supermarket in town either. Decided to start walking back to Walsenburg and see what happens. 3½ miles down the highway in the 88° breeze, a Mexican doing 80 in his work truck slams on the brakes, throws it in reverse, then guns it backwards for a quarter mile. I crammed into the front seat with my bags and off we went. First Spanish conversation of my trip - part Spanish at least. His wife lives in Guadalajara, and he had worked all over the US from Dakota to California and everywhere in between.I literally started singing after being dropped off in town, that's how good the serendipity on this trip is feeling. The motel lady was friendly and knocked $11 off her $77 room rate after I asked. We chatted a few minutes about the drought, fires, travel and so on. Her husband works on the local golf course, which also has no need of help. Another benefit of traveling India - it evidently has worked wonders for my social skills. Now I can have a good chat with just about anybody who is not an attractive young female.The Safeway checkout girl was young, white, pretty, slim, green-eyed, etc. She really wanted my attention, giving me about a dozen second glances, but I was indifferently impersonal with her. Not gonna play foid games. The biker dude who picked me up was also on a pussy boycott with all these childless roasties demanding royal treatment. "Treat her like a queen, and she will treat you like a pawn." He couldn't have said it better.

Anon07/21/26, 21:14No.2897867

Hardly worth $77, but evidently that's what they're charging these days. WiFi is atrocious. I still haven't gotten a US phone plan, because even a cheap phone + plan from Walmart would be a day's spending.Here are the stats so far for seven nights of vagabond life in the US. The first travel day started at 10:30 pm. >Total spend: $395.11 ($56.44 per travel day) >Lodging: $173.38 ($24.77 per travel day) Only three nights out of 7 in a bed... >Food: $83.64 ($11.95 per day) Needful groceries from Safeway only, no treats, no restaurants. This figure is actually skewed upwards as I am ending the week with a sack full of food. Walmart prices would've been lower, but I haven't encountered a Walmart yet. >Transport: $132.25 spent for 1274 miles covered >Misc: $5.84 Six places visited in two states.

Anon07/21/26, 22:53No.2897899

this isn't your creative writing class notebook, OP, if you have no real travel experiences to relay then take it to /lit/

Anon07/22/26, 13:13No.2898042

Ugh, now I feel so stupid for sleeping on the hard ground yesterday night when 300 yards up the river somebody dumped this super comfy sofa in a vacant and ressonably secluded clearing. Been so dry this year that it's not even gross, only a little dusty with leaves and a few birdshit stains on the back. Lesson learned: always explore the area around your vagabond site thoroughly before settling in. I might return to Walsenburg just to spend a night on that sofa. The cushions are like 8 inches of soft foam, as soft as the motel bed.

Anon07/22/26, 22:47No.2898121

Monsoon moisture means roiling clouds have begun filling the sky overhead. I love Colorado summer rain, it rarely stays wet long especially in such a dry summer.

Anon07/23/26, 15:29No.2898274

Trinidad has a cool historic downtown. Not as many bums as I remember there being in 2020. For a decade it was a cannabis boomtown, but since New Mexico legalized weed, all the Texans go there now. Many dispensaries here have shut down, and the business district has subsided into sleepy neglect again. There are a lot of nasty crime stories here from the boomtown days - I chatted with a guy from Aguilar on the bus yesterday and he had some tales to tell. But the gang graffiti is faded, and the illegal activities have become much more discreet. People don't seem insecure or on edge.I think I will spend another night here, choosing this spot over the Walsenburg sofa, and then cover 200 miles to my hostel in Salida tomorrow.

Anon07/23/26, 15:37No.2898276

Being able to freshen up in the river on a bright sunny morning was a great start to the day. How to bathe in a shallow river? Take off shirt, splash water on face and hair, underarms, then a little bit on chest and back. Then wipe off excess water with a bandana, comb hair, put shirt on, squat like you're pooping in the river, and splash the nether regions. With humidity at 30%, everything dries out very quickly.Seriously. Every time I visit Colorado in summertime, I don't see a reason to go anywhere else in the USA. Colorado in summer gigamogs.

Anon07/23/26, 23:51No.2898357

$18 for this rich spread of Italian food. No tipping; order at the counter and get served at your table. The alfredo was served in a literal lake of butter. Now I'll be thirsty as a camel for hours. Might as well buy that gallon jug now... The restaurant seating area was as tiny as any Asian street food joint, with three small tables. So cute. They were only looking for part-time help though.Americans are very emotionally responsive people, MUCH more so than Asians who respond to you based on your perceived value to them. If you react positively to Americans, they nearly always reciprocate, appreciating you for who you are even in passing on the street. And if you openly loathe Americans, their faces also become hideous with negative emotions.It's really shocking how pleasant all my interactions have been in America. I always thought Colorado was unfriendly, but I was just being an anti-social, insecure pothead. Now so many white women smile when they meet my eyes. I was expecting to be treated like trash for being visibly homeless, but it hasn't happened. Everyone respects my choice to see America on foot.Asians and Latinas OTOH treat me like rubbish unless I'm piquing their curiosity or benefitting them in some way. Theirs is a much more dog eat dog world, where naked self-interest predominates over kindness and positivity.Yeah okay I've crossed paths with 4 or 5 grumps in a week of traveling the USA, and seen some seriously fucked up mental cases. It's like they are stuck in a negative emotional feedback loop and haven't the first clue how to escape it. I can relate because I used to be one of them through most of my 20s. But I stripped my persona down to nothing and started anew.

Anon07/24/26, 12:39No.2898442

It's 67° this morning, but when you are skinny and don't eat properly, the dry breeze pulls all the heat out of your body. In the mountain interior valleys it will be chillier. Historically temps have dropped to the high 40s most nights in midsummer. I've even seen 39° in Telluride during an August "heat wave". (Extreme dryness means temps plunging as much as 45° F every night). Even if I do retrieve a big fluffy comforter from my old workplace, such cold may be intolerable. Going down the Arkansas River to Kansas is still an option for summer swelter, as is going down the Platte River to Nebraska. Supposedly a bus goes north from Denver to Buffalo, Wyoming and Billing, MT. And Bustang of course goes west from Denver into the northern Colorado mountains, which has some very charming towns. So I have the freedom to go in all directions...

Anon07/24/26, 12:44No.2898444

While Trinidad does have beautiful riparian forests, I can't wait to get out of earshot of that goddamn interstate. The constant background noise of traffic even half a mile away at 3 AM is quite annoying.

Anon07/25/26, 02:32No.2898589

Salida is touristy, and I feel invisible on the busy downtown streets for a change. Lots of pedestrians and relatively few cars has it feeling almost European. Same with the inhibited behavior of the people here, who are 95% white as can be. They avoid eye contact and act like you don't exist, nothing like the freely social mutts of southern Colorado. The bus driver and I had a long chat, then I Met some friendly thru hikers in the hostel from New Mexico. No foreigners here, it seems. Tomorrow I'll go to Gunnison or Moffat. Probably Gunnison. Wait until Monday to visit my old workplace, seeing as the crew and boss are off on weekends. Rainy conditions have set in, which may make outdoor sleeping tougher. Daily spending average for this trip is now sitting at $53.60. That will drop to $42.80 after the Amtrak refund.

Anon07/25/26, 02:37No.2898591

Today was the first $100+ spending day of this trip (again not including the soon to be refunded Amtrak ticket).

Anon07/25/26, 07:41No.2898664

Last 3 beggars I stiffed, a young guy with alcohol on his breath sob story about being an orphan, a young guy needed food money didn't look hungry, a young guy yesterday a student needed bus fare and food had functional arms and legs that would carry him anywhere, they always target me the white guy ignoring all the locals, did give an 80 yearold woman selling berries on the curb and an old guy quietly being homeless a days wage each for not being a bothersome shithead cuz I'm rich and a heckin good person

Anon07/26/26, 22:52No.2899034

This fragrant meadow next to a cow pasture was soft as a cheap hotel bed. Temps dropped to a damp 54° by morning, tough with no real blanket. Dozing off after sunrise with the gradually warming air was peak comfy. Woke up to a couple white ladies walking by and talking about the legality of high-powered e-bikes. The path was about 20 yards from where I slept on my raincoat.

Anon07/26/26, 22:55No.2899035

Eating cherries on a bench behind the Walmart, some curious cows came up to say hi. So many birds and wildlife in the rich irrigated meadows. Bright moon but no mosquitoes. Salida has a footpath accessible Walmart, beautiful parks with huge shade trees, tons of benches and picnic tables. Today I cross over to the Western Slope to visit Gunnison.

Anon07/26/26, 22:59No.2899037

$11 for a scenic bus ride up a forested pass and then across the wide-open expanses on the Western Slope to Gunnison. From here, free buses connect to the gorgeous mountain resort of Crested Butte. More amazing American mountain towns full of beauty and friendly people. Definitely feeling a sense of American exceptionalism in these places...

Anon07/26/26, 23:02No.2899038

Met a bicycle camper in the town park, started chatting my asking him to take a picture of his setup. He looked rough, but it was only an extreme case of freckles. That's a lot of stuff required to be self-sufficient outdoors in the changeable mountain climate. He seemed to be wearing out his welcome in town, but he refused to be moved along. Besides, every onward direction involved a grueling mountain-pass climb.

Anon07/26/26, 23:10No.2899041

The billowing clouds over distdnt mountains in the background sparked a wildfire which was contained a couple hours later. At the hostel I met a staffer who had fled his Mexican dad in Guadalajara after cartel violence and his dad's sociopathic behavior became intolerable. Unlike Thirdies, nobody I talk to in America wants anything from me besides on-the-spot, face-to-face social engagement. We have great unfiltered conversations, each speaking our minds frankly as we wrestle with complex problems or interwoven life stories. It's stimulating and rewarding in a way that travel in Thirdie countries rarely was. No longer is "woah this nice room was only seven dollars, X is so cheap!" the basis of my travel enjoyment. Consumerism is so lame no matter the budget.

Anon07/27/26, 12:20No.2899204

Met a lady relocating from Salida, CO to Pinedale, WY toretire from work and be with her grandbabies. She said she was paying $1550/month for a cramped 2bd apartment in Salida. In Pinedale she will be paying $1000/month for a house with a spacious fenced backyard. I'd never move to Pinedale as a single guy though. There's rural small town USA, with everything you need in a town of 5-15K, and then there's desolate 100 miles from anywhere outland USA. Pinedale is the latter. People drive 1½ hours one way every day to go work in Jackson Hole. Pinedale does have a beautiful mountain backyard however, not quite as pretty as Salida's all-encompassing mountains. The climate is colder and harsher too.

Anon07/27/26, 17:34No.2899259

$8 of ingredients to cook up this hostel lunch.You sex-obsessed coomers are disgusting, plain and simple. A whole big world out there to explore, and your paragon of adventure is hiding in some squalid budget room porking a series of wet holes. The only "challenge" you face is catering to a woman's whims; unlike you I have self-respect and refuse to engage in such slimy manipulative behavior. And yes I have been to Taiwan. Visited several spots between Keelung, Yilan and Hualien. It was gray and drizzly and depressing in April. Food was gross. Few interactions were enjoyable; everyone was in a glum mood. Only the rainforest mountain terrain impressed me. This USA trip barely costs more ($48 per day versus $43 in TW) and is much more enjoyable. >only interested in teenage virgin brides At last something you got right about me. Nepal would be my chosen destination for wife hunting, based on what I've seen of Asia. BTW Hindus are not Abrahamic, but they also value marriage and childbearing while abhorring casual promiscuity. Much as like any guy I enjoy seeing half-naked white girls prancing around with no bras under their shirts, I'd never waste my attentions on such sluttish creatures.

Anon07/27/26, 19:49No.2899283

Just heard some tourists in beautiful Almont remarking that they've never seen it so slow here in July. My hopes deflated once again; the resort manager then confirmed they recently hired new employees and are fully staffed. No staff shortage in peak season would be unthinkable in past years, but now it's the norm. With on-site employee housing and free bus service up and down the valley, this is really a great place to work for the summer.

Anon07/28/26, 13:34No.2899490

Lots of different habitats here. I walked about a mile out of town up the Kebler Pass road and across various meadows with rocky poor soil before finding this spot where the grass grew thick and tall, indicating soft rich soil underneath. Evidently the deer also sleep here in the soft grass, they kept approaching during the night and then huffing in alarm when they detected my presence. Temps only dropped to 54°, much warmer than expected. A little drizzle fell around 11 PM; I flipped the raincoat up over my bags to protect them. No way to keep myself dry in the unlikely event of a nighttime downpour at this 9000' altitude. (By contrast, violent thunderstorms frequently pass through at night out on the plains.)Cost to visit and spend a night near one of Colorado's most expensive towns? $0

Anon07/28/26, 13:37No.2899491

Sunrise at Peanut Lake, also about a mile from town. Once again, people who say America is not walkable are liars, plain and simple. Every single Colorado town I've visited has been eminently walkable.

Anon07/28/26, 13:44No.2899492

$24 + tax + tip for a pub burger on the main street of Crested Butte. It's cute, but would be much nicer if they closed it to cars (like Hunter S. Thompson wanted to do for Aspen). Of course the nearby residential streets don't want a constant stream of traffic, so they will never agree to a car-free main street. Why people have to drive around so much in such a compact little town baffles me. The town even operates a free shuttle from 7 AM to midnight connecting all the outlying areas, but most people still drive. Noteworthy is the complete lack of luxury cars in such a wealthy place. Despite everyone here being millionaires, they all drive ordinary SUVs, pickups and crossovers just like any other Americans. They also don't seem anywhere near as pretentious as Aspenites or even SoCal coast dwellers.

Anon07/28/26, 13:46No.2899493

There might be a job offer in the wings for facility maintenance up here, with housing available down in Almont. They'd probably want somebody to stay on through the bitter subzero cold of the ski season though. Fuck that.

Anon07/29/26, 00:29No.2899653

One week of budget tier Colorado travel cost me $327, or $47 per day. Three nights in hostels cost a steep $146; food expenses also came in high at $110. Visiting seven different Colorado towns covered 345 miles and cost $50 in bus fare. Overall I still remain happy with this trip, but sleeping on the ground with no blanket remains tough. Lots of wakefulness in the early morning chill. Chronic sleep deprivation is very demotivational, and helps explain why so many bums make no efforts to get their life together, preferring instead to lounge in the shade.Picrel the beautiful wildlife area along the Gunnison River. This is the end of the Bustang route. From here I either hitch a ride over to Montrose to explore the Grand Junction to Durango route. The Western Slope towns and Colorado River valley are on track to see temps up to 106° by the weekend. There is good bus service along the I-70 corridor and also south to Durango, but the broiling heat and inescapable traffic noise may be unpleasant. Hotel prices all throughout northern Colorado may be too high to justify staying indoors for days on end.Or else I return east the way I came, taking the overnight train to Topeka Kansas after a final mountain-valley excursion down the San Luis Valley to Alamosa. Train tickets on that stretch are cheap, and I just might quit the vagabond life to settle somewhere in Kansas. Temps have gotten mild out on the plains after a fierce heatwave. Housing is much cheaper in Kansas than in these mountain towns; it should be easy to find monthly housing in a town of my choice along the rail route.

Anon07/29/26, 00:31No.2899659

Really cute cabins tucked away in the shadow of the rocky spires. Today started off hot, then the rains swept through. You never really stay wet in Colorado; I pedaled through the storm and still was almost dry by the time I got back to the hostel.

Anon07/29/26, 00:36No.2899663

Beautiful as Crested Butte was, I couldn't picture myself living there as a laborer. Gunnison, maybe. But not just yet. I'd rather live in a cheap spacious apartment in some boring Kansas town with warm lovely autumns and placid farm folk than try to finagle some tiny space up here and freeze my ass off going to work every day, serving wealthy hyper-fit people with demeanors as cold as the mountains.

Anon07/30/26, 01:45No.2899999

Glad I decided to come on down to the vast open space of the San Luis Valley. The cold demeanor of people in Gunnison was beginning to get me down. But down here, people are simple farmers who showed friendliness from the moment I stepped off the bus - empty apart from one autist who rides it every day to & from work. A cute and bubbly girl at the farmer's market made casual friendly chatter with me and gave me an extra pack of her apple fritter muffins for free after I bought one for $2. Next to her was a giant glowering hambeast. Were they a couple? It seemed hard to believe, everything about them was so opposite. Some Hispanics in a pickup truck waved to me as they were leaving the farm park where the market was being held. What happened to all the snootiness and indifference? Alamosa is not very prosperous, but like the other poorer towns I've visited in Colorado, everyone views my presence as a foot traveler positively. Only downside to here, the motels are all $80+ and with pretty bad reviews as well. But who needs a motel when the flat earth is a bed stretching to the jagged mountain horizon?

Anon07/30/26, 01:50No.2900002

Dramatic storms over the mountains gave way to a bright clear sunset down by the network of river trails stretching for miles away from downtown. The birdlife is cool to look at, but the marshes hatch a lot of mosquitoes. Once the breeze quits blowing, I'll probably be swarmed. With the waterside cottonwoods and the dry plains beyond it's almost like central Kansas at 8000' elevation.

Anon07/30/26, 01:55No.2900003

For $49 + $7 taxes and fees you can go to any American Walmart and set yourself up with a Family Mobile moto g phone and a 4.5 GB monthly high speed data plan. 46 hour runtime on this phone, no battery bank needed. It takes decent pics as well. Beats the hell out of the overpriced secondhand phones on offer in Asian market districts.

Anon07/30/26, 17:54No.2900130

My lenovo laptop survived the wear and tear of three extended overseas trips, albeit with severe abrasion marks on the screen, keyboard and the outside edges. But these last two weeks of USA travel with a crammed-full backpack have done it in. It's a brick now, completely dead. A nice new pair of Skechers gifted by my dad are coming apart at the seams after eight months and about to wear a hole in the sole. Anyone who says foot travel is low effort has no idea what they are talking about. In fact, foot travel only gets MORE difficult than this when you start trekking overland. Colorado Trail through hikers are carrying 45 pounds of gear up thousands of feet of elevation gain. They literally can't eat enough food to stave off weight loss, that's how many calories they burn.

Anon07/30/26, 19:44No.2900146

HR roasties evidently have 3½ day work weeks in America these days. Despite property management confirming they are looking for help, she neglected to add the job I was looking for to the city's website. When I stopped by the office to clarify things, I was informed that she had already begun her weekend - at 1 PM on a Thursday! Now I have to wait until Monday just for her to notice the sticky note I left with the office and look at my application. Dammit. At the other courses the superintendent (always a white male at every course I've ever seen) would've shook hands and offered me a job right then and there. But because this course is city-owned, I'm stuck at a bureaucratic bottleneck. Hopes dashed once again...

Anon07/30/26, 23:13No.2900176

Not really feeling the beauty of the open American space on this nasty strip of commercial sprawl. Walmart is like 4 miles from downtown on the very farthest edge of the developed area. Nearby is a Super 8 with a jeet manager who is charging $135 + tax for a room. Jesus Christ, that's what I paid for a suite in downtown Denver. And here in Alamosa a budget chain hotel in a shitty farflung area with no sidewalks is charging $150+. Now I see why people go crazy living on the streets in these endless expanses of commercial buildings and traffic. It's a landscape wholly unfit for human habitation.

Anon07/30/26, 23:15No.2900179

Close to the slightly more appealing but still traffic-ridden downtown is this boardinghouse offering rooms for rent. If I do decide to work the autumn in this windblasted valley, it would be a good place to live for three months. South of the tracks is kinda ghetto, lots of mean dogs behind chainlink fences. The north and east part of town is pleasant and full of nature trails, though.

Anon07/30/26, 23:19No.2900180

Living here next to the perpetual revving and traffic noise seems a little hellish. The tenants of these cheap apartments all look like people who have made a LOT of bad decisions in their lives.

Anon07/31/26, 14:11No.2900321

>stop liking what I don't like >stop doing things I don't like >what do you mean different people have different lives and interests nooooo you can't do thatGet a bivy slumbo. I did a bit of what you're doing and it helps greatly though a good one is expensive. A cheaper alternative I also used before the bivy when I had less than 50 bucks to my name was a $25 little tent from Walmart. Don't need to bother putting it up if you need more stealth so you use it like a bivy and it still helps keep bugs and snakes and shit away from you. Depending on the tree situation in your locations you could also use a tent hammock, but it was another expensive item. I used one as well at one point and it was very nice.

Anon08/01/26, 02:32No.2900440

Even after eight years here, I still think Colorado is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. The interplay of sun and wind and rain during the summer storms is natural perfection. One moment I'm walking up a dirt forest road through rocky open expanses of pinyon; the next I've turned down a little trail that enters a dense riparian forest of shady glens and rustling foliage, with a tiny creek running down through the heart of the forest fed by water which springs up from deep valleys hidden between the craggy peaks. A few miles downsteam, water and forest alike vanish into the desolate expanse of the San Luis Valley. But up here in this grassy glen, I feel sheltered amongst the towering trees as the golden light fades in the western sky.This is the grand finale of my rough camping excursions in rural Colorado. 14 miles from the highway at the base of the Sangre de Cristo range; there is no traffic or human noise up here, only the soughing wind, the rushing rill, and the patter of drizzle from the cloud tatters overhead.

Anon08/01/26, 02:41No.2900442

Crestone is weird and friendly and hospitable. The perfect ending to this trip. There are many, many more great places to visit in Colorado, but family beckons me to the humid buggy swelter of east Texas in August.

Anon08/01/26, 02:54No.2900445

>verifiable income required to rent a shitty worker bed Typical usa I remember coming back from abroad trying to rent a place and even with a huge amount of assets and crypto and plenty in the bank, these type of pitiful fucks wouldnt rent to me.I truly despise the USA and the banal inhumanity around every corner. No amount of natural beauty or earning potential forgives it, imo.Humans need places to live. They need to be able to quickly and easily and cheaply rent simple shelter. Its just a requirement, and yet in the USA its this series of hoops everyone has to jump through. Fuck that, and fuck every single person from the top to the bottom who enables and participates in it.

Anon08/01/26, 02:57No.2900446

I won't be sad to be leaving these absurdly high lodging prices behind. By contrast, good quality conveniently located hotel rooms in Dallas and Topeka cost me $70 per night. Canon City I paid $75.

Anon08/02/26, 02:31No.2900672

A kind Mississippi dad traveling with his wife and three blond children turned around to offer me a ride for the last five miles of the 13 mile walk out of Crestone. Along the way was a public park with running water and a lockable restroom, perfect for a jug shower and a fresh change of clothes. Walking around Moffat I found this abandoned lot with two huge trees next to the school. Only downside is the mosquitoes; they've been a real bother lately at all these forested meadow sites. They're fat and stupid and easy to kill, but still annoying. Yeah there's a huge expanse of open plain, but it's mostly dirt with bunches of weeds...so far I've avoided sleeping on dirt because it's, well, dirty. Especially with the morning dampness.

Anon08/02/26, 02:38No.2900677

Three storms passed along the mountains today. First was a brief shower, second was a downpour with hail, and third (picrel) was a windstorm with a few sprinkles. By the time I started my walk, the weather had returned to typical San Luis Valley summertime: 80° sunshine with a dry breeze.Tomorrow's destination: Canon City on the edge of the mountains. After stocking up on food for my upcoming trip, I want to hike up the Arkansas River gorge trail, which starts on the edge of town.

Anon08/02/26, 12:08No.2900779

Interesting to see a road that is built for non-motorized traffic only. Would be great if they could build roads like these in every American town.That windstorm swept out the warm airmass which had been keeping nighttime temps as much as 15° F above normal. Last night's bed of fragrant wild tarragon got awfully damp and cold under the brilliant moon. Cold has always been my greatest enemy while traveling the USA. Low bodyfat problems, you burn so many calories to stay warm due to lack of an insulating fat layer. Of course there are hot states like Texas and Florida where cold is less of a concern...both are notoriously hostile to homeless, but I don't use drugs, cook food or sleep in publicly visible places, so it shouldn't be a problem for me. Florida or Central America? Tough choice. Might take a break from airplanes this next winter. It sucks having to lock in your departure flights months in advance just to get a reasonable price. With buses you can book a trip three days out for the normal price.

Anon08/02/26, 12:25No.2900780

during the wc i visited the west coast. they do have competent public transportation. the problem is the us is fucking huge so its a pain in the ass to travel

Anon08/02/26, 18:12No.2900883

The Tunnel Drive trail was neat in the heat. I even got to see the tourist train emerge from the gorge; it was shockingly empty for a weekend in August. A coach ticket starts at $109 per the website, too expensive for the families on vacation to consider. At the turnaround point it was a 4.5 mile walk to my motel room on the other end of town. High temp today 100°. Such is the ordeal of the foot travel life. Yes I brought my bags along for most of the way, only dropping them for the last half mile. Transit schedules, check-in times, bus/train station locations and lodging locations rarely align perfectly, despite your best planning efforts. In this case I stepped off the bus at 8:45 AM, and even if the reception did agree to hold my bags, the motel was a mile in the opposite direction of the trail.

Anon08/02/26, 18:13No.2900885

What looked like a large burrow at the base of a cliff was actually the entrance to a spooky underground pipeline corridor.

Anon08/02/26, 18:20No.2900889

Downtown Canon City is not too remarkable, though the Main Street is preserved as a historic district...fossilized you could say, because all the traffic goes to the big businesses sprawled out for miles along US-50 in typical Amerislop fashion. The natural setting at the back of a V-shaped valley with a backdrop of crazily tilted slabs of rock rising thousands of feet is what makes this city worth visiting. There are numerous trails to explore in the area, both by 4x4 and on foot or bicycle.

Anon08/02/26, 18:32No.2900893

Upcoming arrival and (next day) departure times for this trip...La Junta: arrive 5:30 pm depart 7 pm on train Topeka: arrive 4:30 am (yikes!) depart 10:30 am on bus OKC: arrive 3:30 pm depart 8:20 am on train Dallas: arrive 2 pm depart 6:50 am on busMosquitoes here so stupid they try to bite my phone screen. Recent rains have hatched swarms of them and turned the river muddy as well.

Anon08/02/26, 19:27No.2900904

Okay, Main Street is facelifted and very clean, with tall buildings shading the sidewalk even at 1 pm. But it's still eerily quiet. The crafts fair in the town park had no shoppers at all. I guess that's the appeal of rural America. Sunshine, neatness, ample public spaces and low ambient noise even one block from the highway. Most people greet me in passing, especially on the trail. The younger women who aren't fat are so buttoned-up in public. The only time they laugh is when they've been drinking. I bet a lot of them are medheads, they have that zoned-out expression.

Anon08/02/26, 20:21No.2900912

Cheap American rooms and hostels are not known for scenic window views. This is the best view I've gotten on this trip...it's also the most expensive room. Second story and end of the block, so no people walking past the window when I'm naked. I hated having to keep the curtains always drawn in those first floor motel rooms facing the walkway.

Anon08/03/26, 03:39No.2900980

2 bedroom apartment on Canon City's Main Street for $925, not too bad of a deal in [current year].Food expenses have been on the rise lately after realizing how many delicious American flavors I've been missing out on in Asia. Thai night markets no longer hit the spot on my last visit. Basically the only strong point Asia has in my view is the affordability of nightly lodging. Everything else, pfft. I'm liking it better in America. Just saw a tall blue-eyed girl in a crop top walking into the City Market with her mom who naturally mogged any painted-up, face-whitened Asian "beauty". She looked right through me and kept on going. Outside was a shirtless negro talking to himself in aggressive negrospeak...the first such scary black man I've seen on this whole trip.

Anon08/03/26, 17:26No.2901125

Goodbye to the Rocky mountains. Today will reach 106° in La Junta, but I'll be going straight from the bus to my room a quarter mile away. Tomorrow I will have eight hours minimum from checkout until train departure, but it will only reach 85°.I'm looking forward to Topeka. Buy a bus pass for $4 and ride all over the city from 6:30 AM until check-in time. There's a riverside state park accessible by city bus, plus the Shunganuga Creek greenway to the south. Topeka has a ton of sizable parks full of walking trails. Weather will be 80s and cloudy with a chance of light rain. The 24 hour city bus pass will be expired by the time I depart for the bus station, so it's gonna be a 1.6 mile walk.Oklahoma City will be 95°, but my shitty $43 room is right outside the bus station; 1.3 miles walk to downtown is okay. The Amtrak Heartland Express departs from downtown OKC.Amtrak arrives in Fort Worth, so I will need to pay $9 for a DART regional daypass to get to my metro stop near Love Field airport. Once there I will have to walk 1.5 miles in the 99° midday heat to my room. Hotels near the airport & bus station are mainly located in the middle of a freeway spaghetti bowl that looked extremely unwalkable; I picked one of the few that was accessible by walking surface streets from the metro station. After checking in, a visit to downtown Dallas in the evening via metro is on the agenda.1.5 miles walk to the Dallas Greyhound station for that 6:50 AM departure to Crockett will be the end of my USA vagabond travels - for now.

Anon08/04/26, 01:38No.2901227

I started doing that copy paste with very small edits to show how empty and flawed the logic of some retarded posters were like the guy frothing at the mouth about how terrible Muslims are and Jews are our greatest allies.You are misusing this approach, using it too frequently, and making it just look stupid and lazy.

Anon08/04/26, 02:18No.2901235

A rainless front arrives to bring some cooler air for a couple days. I've come to prefer being outdoors even in 100+ degree heat. Only downside of this trip has been reduced sociability. As the novelty of wandering America has worn off, I have less and less to talk about with those I encounter. >2901192 Speaking of garbage, heartland America mogs any Asian bughive garbage dump of a city. Fuck all the conniving /trv/ propaganda shilling those filthy, shoddy bug cities as somehow better than the grandeur and beauty of America.Over the years I've faced all the challenges of living free in the vast landscapes of this Land of the Free, and I've overcome them. Any tard can imitate herd behaviors, plop down in an urban apartment and accept his dependence on a landlord for the comfortable cocoon of safety he can't envision living without. >>"but you're poor!" The metrosexual's cope. He can't accept that some men deliberately eschew pleasure for a rough life. Theodore Roosevelt is a role model for such men. Born into wealth and privilege as a frail sheltered child, he chose to toughen himself up by adventuring all over the world, sleeping rough and braving the elements. He could've easily become a dandy chasing women while indulging in pampered luxury in some privileged European setting. But such an effete life held no appeal to him. Why? Because he was a real man, not a faggy weak-chinned lover of finery and soft pleasures.

Anon08/04/26, 04:18No.2901251

Woah. Small town kids hanging out around their cars in the park on a hot summer night like it was 1986. This shit still happens? Police pulled up to give everybody a hard time. I saw a soft drink cup get thrown shortly before they pulled up. A big group of kids came over to talk to the police. Something something assault, IDK. The police blipped their sirens and lights, then a snarky kid told the police to go home. Land of the Free, but you can't hang out in the park? Eventually the police left, but the mood remained subdued. No more blaring music and driving shitboxes around the traffic circle. One guy did say "they're here for you bro!" as I was walking up to the cops, but I couldn't think of anything to say to anybody so I kept walking.Damn if I can understand a single word of the "English" these Gen A speak with each other. They might as well be speaking a foreign language. They're pretty well-behaved for their age desu. No alcohol consumption in evidence. Poor music tastes, but that's expected.

Anon08/04/26, 19:24No.2901390

Cops haven't bothered me yet on this trip. Only one female cop got testy with me when I walked into a thrift store in Trinidad and came upon a bunch of cats trapped in tiny live traps, with her standing nearby. I said why are those cats inside squirrel traps, she was like it's not a squirrel trap, they are being neutered, where are you from and what are you doing here. White women and their love of clipping nuts. Male virility in anything but the finest breeding specimens bothers them immensely for some reason.Leaving the mountains I've noticed a sharp change in how the people value nature. Instead of vast spreads of lovingly preserved land surrounding each town, here there are only scraps which have been raped of their resources and abandoned. Greed for water sucks entire rivers dry; where there should be a shady forest of cottonwoods along the bank, there is only a thicket of weeds and shrubs. La Junta has a nice town park, true, but it's not nature. It's just a big lawn with some big trees surrounded by houses. Many of the houses in these towns are historical and cute, dating back to boomtown days. Vacancies and rentals seem scarce. It's rare to encounter great properties for rent in these small, less-than-prospering towns. Usually rentals are shitty old houses that were bought for cheap, patched up and then offered to tenant families. Singles leave these places because not only are the jobs hodge-podge and dreary, but the predominance of single family homes means that everything on the rental market is geared toward couples and families, not singles.

Anon08/04/26, 22:10No.2901424

Satellite View can be very useful for finding paths to explore in open terrain, where they are clearly visible from above. The area around an arroyo on the west end of La Junta is supposed to be a disc golf course, but nobody comes back here except for deer. I followed their trail along the arroyo with its variety of habitats. Erosion prone uplands were desertlike, rocky and barren, while deposition prone bottomlands were rich with greenery despite the severe chronic drought. The cattail marshes were dry and firm, but giant piles of flood debris spoke of the power of rain events in the past. Hopping over a mangled fence gate I entered a landscape of in-between: dry meadow dotted with numerous trees. Tucked away in a grove was a spooky playground and campsite. No signs of usage any time recently. The tree swing was hung from a huge dead branch which sagged alarmingly when I sat on the board. I heard a loud crackle and called out like in a horror movie, but it was only a nervous deer. The area is completely isolated from houses and devoid of any signage. But there's a full set of nice wooden camp furniture and a giant stack of firewood on hand. Maybe it's a hunting camp?

Anon08/04/26, 22:24No.2901428

In Third World countries, nature always is a curated experience with fees and guides and transport shuttling you along a tourist route. But in much of America, nature is everywhere. Other than "don't burn the forest down", there are very few rules that a foot traveler needs to concern himself with. You can do as you please, and nobody is going to interfere with you in any way. Stash your bags in the bushes and go wander around. It's so easy to find seclusion and rest. Any unraped watercourse will have shade trees and grassy meadows to rest in. Only the laziest, most disheartened bums sleep under a bridge or on the sidewalk. If you're fit, healthy and sober, so much more of the country's wild places open up to you. Even more than in a van - vehicle access and overnight parking is so limited in the good areas, but as a foot traveler you can go anywhere, trail or no trail. Besides, vehicles rape the environment, turning verdant meadows into bare dirt and gentle pathways into rutted tracks. I'm all for land managers blocking lazy fuckers from driving their campers into the woods, especially near watercourses. Even if they don't leave a speck of trash behind, their rolling wheels still destroy sensitive habitats.

Anon08/05/26, 02:07No.2901455

Three weeks of USA vagabond life are complete as I wait for the 2 hr delayed train out of Colorado. >Total spend: $1032 or $49 per day >Lodging: $458...4 nights hostel, 4 nights motel, 3 nights on the train, 10 nights outdoors - $57 per night in a bed >Food: $296 or $14 per day >Transport: $185 spent to cover 2530 miles total... $137 on Bustang tickets to cover 915 miles in Colorado. Thanks Amtrak for refunding the $108 fare to Colorado. >Cellular: $57 ... $32 for the phone and $25 for the "$19.88” monthly plan >Miscellaneous: $35 Pretty happy with these figures. At this point I'm hoping to continue my US vagabond travels after the family visit. North Dakota? New York? Quebec? It's all on the table.

Anon08/05/26, 02:09No.2901456

Quite a cast of characters boarding at this stop for the overnight ride across the plains...smelly hobos, awkward autists, grannies with roller carts.

Anon08/05/26, 12:33No.2901517

Ah, the beauty of the American Midwest!The countryside is a lovely mix of field and forest all lush with bountiful summer rains, but Topeka's old railyard district is peak Rust Belt. Early check-in costs $20 at the convention center hotel, so I will wander around until the designated 4 PM check-in time.

Anon08/05/26, 13:48No.2901526

Once again, America's public transit shines through. Half an hour after stepping off the train, I'm walking in a beautiful 500+ acre nature preserve / state park on the banks of the big muddy Kansas River. The bus stop was right next to the 6th Street trailhead.

Anon08/05/26, 15:36No.2901542

Some creepy old guy followed me down a little trail along the riverbank and then came sneaking up on me with his hand down his pants. I reprimanded him and then followed him back to his car to get a picture of the license plate. Makes sense why pretty girls are so snobbish. Say hi to the wrong guy and next thing he's following you into the woods playing with himself. A cute college girl wearing a skimpy outfit did say good morning when she jogged past me though. Seems in Kansas I am hansum man...

Anon08/05/26, 18:28No.2901586

Some other dad came around looking for two little girls on bicycles who had gone missing? Creepy shit all around. Even though it's a beautiful cool summer day, there are no kids anywhere in the parks. It's not safe for them to be outside without mom AND dad accompanying them. And man, half the people who ride buses here are literal goblin ogres. I like the ginormous leafy trees though. The sweet gum next to this bus stop is 6 feet thick. Endless lawns to cut out here, unlike parched Colorado. Makes me want to hire on and drive a mower around all day.

Anon08/05/26, 20:49No.2901615

Here's a shot of the old creep getting in his car. Might go down to the police station later to file a report of lewd behavior. Having a bus pass revolutionizes getting around the city. You can go anywhere all day long, walking only where you want to walk like parks and greenway trails. Already my $4 pass has covered 3x its value in bus fares, and I haven't even checked in to my hotel yet. Ten minutes until check-in time and the rain has started...talk about good timing. This is going to be the nicest hotel of the trip.

Anon08/05/26, 21:22No.2901618

$58 plus tax to stay in the four star Hotel Topeka next to the convention center. It's not quite downtown, despite the "City Center" in the hotel name. It's 1½ miles from downtown and ½ mile from the nearest bus stop. The elevator has a glass wall with a view of the stately atrium. Nobody in America actually treats me like a homeless person, because my bags are neat and compact. Most homeless' luggage is as messy as the rest of their lives, and they get stuck in one place because moving their stuff is too difficult.

Anon08/05/26, 21:25No.2901620

Inside of the room. Even in Asia such a room would cost $35-70 USD.

Anon08/06/26, 02:33No.2901677

Heading out on the main boulevard toward downtown is disheartening. This is what conventiongoers see when they step out for a night on the town. A landscape of appalling blight and desolate space. No city buses run after 6 pm either, so you must walk the seven blocks to the edge of the historic downtown.

Anon08/06/26, 02:48No.2901679

The seven blocks of Kansas Street near the majestic Capitol building are beautifully renovated, but despite the millions of dollars expended to build these spaces, so few townspeople choose to spend their leisure time out in public. Wagie burnout syndrome, all they want to do after work is scarf down some junk food and rot on the sofa. Then they complain about how lonely and depressed they feel. Here's some meds, the doctor says. Not a word about eating better, taking a stroll in the park and meeting up with friends on a daily basis. The only people hanging out in all the hundreds of acres of public space in Topeka were the firemen; they had their firetrucks parked downtown and were standing around chatting after their training exercise.The scattered loners of Topeka (housed or otherwise) can be as nervous as stray cats when I come walking by. Like they think I am a psycho prowling the streets for a hapless victim. Sometimes they say "hi" back, other times they are too shy.

Anon08/06/26, 14:15No.2901756

Saw this beautiful moth in the forest, worth waking up early from a super comfy sleep. Bedrotting ruins your vitality; rise with the morning light instead.Now it's onward to 100° Oklahoma City on the flixbus. Slightly overpriced at $51, but the schedule was good.

Anon08/06/26, 18:15No.2901801

Wichita made more sense than Topeka as a stopover for this trip. I had to ride the train two extra hours to get to Topeka, then retrace the same distance on the way south. But Topeka is much greener and prettier; I am glad I went out of the way to enjoy its abundance of green spaces. Wichita is dry and scrubby, with no hills and no giant trees. It also lacks the stately centerpiece of the State Capitol, having only a collection of old ratty buildings. This little grocery shop across from the Wichita bus stop was cute, however. The friendly owners have been serving customers at the door for 52 years...you ask for what you want and they retrieve it for you. They sold me a 6" turkey cheese sub, chips, ice-cold pop and an ice cream sandwich for only $5.50. It was good cheap slop.

Anon08/06/26, 19:15No.2901809

Reading this thread is conflicting because I can see the merits of enjoying simple and free life drifting from town to town aimlessly.... but at the same time, it sounds extremely boring and uneventful.This guy keeps a record of how much he spends everywhere and is barely scraping by with meager accommodation and cheap food.I'm just saying this hardly seems to be "living life to the fullest" and comes across as being a homeless person with a personal blog.Are these really the "adventures" that /trv/ has to offer? This is no less boring than the recounting of a wageslave NPC.

Anon08/07/26, 03:13No.2901885

I'm a taxpaying traveler who spends roughly $100 of my hard earned money in every city I visit. This makes wagies seethe, because I was supposed to tuck tail and settle into the grind as soon as I returned to America, lamenting about how much I miss Thailand or whatever. But instead I continued exploring and discovering in my home country. The trip is now coast to coast across America; soon it may extend up through the Northeast cities into Quebec.Oklahoma City impressed me a lot. All the races living together peacefully, enjoying the hot summer night in their own way. I saw more pretty, fun-loving teenies walking around here in OKC than any other place I've been in a long long time.

Anon08/07/26, 03:16No.2901887

Bricktown and the manicured city parks nearby are full of life even on a Thursday night. Live music, dining, and simple strolling around with friends and family. Something that so much of white America has forgotten how to do. Topeka was much prettier, but OKC is much more fun and buoyant with newfound prosperity. The oldsters are all fat, but there is a huge fitness culture among the youth.

Anon08/07/26, 03:19No.2901888

>b-but OKC is unwalkable! you need a car! False again. I walked the ugly but serviceable Oklahoma River trail from my bargain-priced hotel near the bus station to the Brickfields district.

Anon08/07/26, 03:30No.2901890

No it doesn't bother me that 70+% of people out on the town are brown. Most of the whites stay indoors in the A/C because a 92° F evening is evidently too hot for them to enjoy being active. But the nonwhites thrive in the heat, it makes them joyous. Everyone is well-behaved if a little exuberant, revving and blaring music or clowning with each other on the sidewalk. Friendly people chatted with me both times I rode the free downtown streetcar. The hot weather is lovely. Give me 90° over 60° any day.

Anon08/07/26, 11:29No.2901947

>visit usa to see parents >go outside >all niggers and beaners >look at dad >he looks back at me with this mutual understanding and resignation >leave back to asiaIm sure there are white people somewhere. Probably working or tucked away at home. Public spaces are just filthy though. Imagine going outside and seeing niggers and you arent in Africa.

Anon08/07/26, 16:26No.2901973

Hello Texas. This dumpy river marks the northern boundary of the state. Texas is where I first experienced the grandeur of the American West, first traveled to a foreign country on my own, first smoked weed, first tried LSD, first jammed out with the musicbros, first got chased by a horny hambeast, got a chance to cuck a guy literally named Chad (but didn't do it), walked off the job after an argument with the manager, had a girl fall in love with me, lost my virginity to her in the back of my Explorer, got into a fight with a coworker, crossed the border illegally, drove 110 mph, etc. Lots of memories here. No other place in the world before or since has come close.

Anon08/07/26, 19:18No.2901980

Bro WTh seriously? I didnt know!!!

Anon08/07/26, 20:40No.2901992

Lately I've been using more obscure booking platforms which are listed on Google Maps and offer a substantial discount from the standard booking sites for many budget properties. At first I was concerned that there would be problems with the reservations at check-in, but they've been seamless so far.Most other properties I've stayed in the USA jack up their rates as the date approaches, making advance bookings far preferable - buses and trains also are best booked at least several days out. Defying the trend, this Comfort Inn in a lousy commercial/industrial neighborhood near Love Field and the Greyhound depot actually bottomed out. $100+ per night to book this king suite for next Friday, but today the rate is $64 if booked direct. The owner is a Gujarati Indian; he waived the deposit requirement for me.

Anon08/07/26, 20:51No.2901995

Texas sure knows how to rape the land of all its trees and build the most hideous sprawl you can imagine. Trash strewn everywhere on the roadsides, sidewalks randomly ending with only bare dirt or brown roadside grass to walk on. There are a fair number of homeless people too, disproportionately black men. Nobody starts trouble with anybody else; this is Texas after all. Yet for all its shoddiness and aesthetic neglect outside the wealthy areas, the DFW metro boasts one of the most extensive light rail systems in the USA. $9 for a daypass including intercity transport across the metroplex, but instead of giving you 24 hours validity they cut you off at 3 AM. Fare checks are random; I bet most of the homeless riding the trains to cool off didn't have a fare card.Temps are not as hot as expected. Barely 100°, humidity 37% or so. Farther south it will get more oppressive.

Anon08/08/26, 03:49No.2902032

Even with a public transit pass, it requires a fuckton of walking to explore even a tiny bit of Dallas on foot. The hard soles of my new shoes seemed fine for the first few days, but relentless walking has formed blisters on the bottoms of my feet. While uncomfortable to walk on, the blisters don't actually impede my movement...but I sure am looking forward to kicking back and taking a weeklong break from travel at my brother's house.

Anon08/08/26, 03:58No.2902034

Dallas lacks the down-home liveliness and exuberance of Oklahoma City. So many dead-eyed looks from passing strangers in the street. Unlike the proud native-admixed peoples of OKC, Dallas is full of street trash loitering around and being obnoxious. And thanks to the metro rail, they can disperse to all the outlying neighborhoods... laying shirtless outside the senior center, being a complete fruit wearing no pants at all, smoking on the train, harassing women, etc. Ridership on the Dallas metro lines is about 80% black. That's how negrofied the city is. Tejano (Hispanic) influence and culture is strangely absent. At the Dallas fairgrounds they have the African-American museum, but not a word about the indigenous peoples.

Anon08/08/26, 04:08No.2902037

Lots of filthy tattered bums, wary normies walking hurriedly along, Asian tourists soaking in the strange American sights...one old guy asked me to pour water in his hands so he could quench his thirst. On the way back to my hotel I passed two black strippers, one in glittery high heels and a Mexican flag bikini, hurrying along the grassy roadside in the dark. Escaping a police bust?At least I got to see a little nature around dusk at one of the widely scattered greenway trails near the UNT campus. Even out there, black men were loafing around leaving strewn trash behind and cluttering the peaceful soundscape with their music & noises. Nope, Texas big city life is not for me. The vast public investments in alternative transit and recreation are laudable, but Dallas still has so much social and infrastructure neglect. Tiny clusters of trees in low spots are about all that remains of natural habitat across most of the metroplex.

Anon08/08/26, 04:12No.2902038

The lack of life in so many public spaces was disheartening. Nobody wants to bring their kids downtown; the pavements are grimy, litter is everywhere and the street people can be unpredictable - though I didn't see anyone being dangerous, only stupidity and obnoxiousness. Texas is a police state with cameras watching your every move: you can be a loud fat dirty pig, but you can't menace others and get away with it.

Anon08/08/26, 04:14No.2902039

While I don't regret visiting for the first time, I see no reason to ever return to Dallas or any of its satellite cities.

Anon08/08/26, 11:35No.2902108

On the way to the bus station at 6 AM I saw a car stopped in the highway ahead. When it drove off, a hooker in a tight short dress was walking in the middle of the empty road. One thing you can say, the hookers of Dallas are in shape. No fatties. But every single one of them is black to some degree. Big sign says "Unlawful Sexual Crimes are Illegal". Unlawful crimes are illegal? Thanks, Captain Obvious.

Anon08/08/26, 20:31No.2902203

East Texas has thick beautiful forests; it's like you cross an invisible line heading south around Athens and suddenly you're surrounded by big shady trees. Sadly, my attempt at riding my brother's 250 cc dirtbike as a two wheel newbie ended with a bruised foot and a bent shifter after forgetting the clutch and slamming on the brake when approaching an unexpected gate in the road. Motorbikes just don't do it for me. Too fast, too loud, too bulky, too risky. You need licenses and tags and gasoline and oil changes. You need to learn to shift with your foot and clutch with your hand instead of the other way round. If you can roll with it, great. Tons of people go on motorbike tours of the western states every summer. But a motorbike doesn't really take me anywhere I couldn't have gone in my old 4x4 camper, nor does it provide any shelter from the elements like a car does. So I fail to see the upside beyond feeling the wind in your hair and the bugs in your teeth.

Anon08/09/26, 02:35No.2902242

Typical rural American mancave. The toolkits have a nice collection of giant switchblades too

Anon08/10/26, 02:13No.2902442

This part of east Texas definitely has rural character. Lots of wild creatures, sandy roads for miles through a mix of pasture and woodland with scattered habitations. It's pretty high trust, most people leave their gates open out here. But at the same time, everybody minds their own business and doesn't make trouble with their neighbors. It's not as hot or humid as I expected for Texas in August. But the main pastimes are watching TV on the sofa or riding dirtbikes around. Social life is limited to the occasional beer and burger at the local joint, and even then you only get five minutes' flirting with the buxom waitresses (who have dozens of other single men jestering for her attention with the severe dearth of nubile females in rural Texas). And these cheap old American homes, they have problems upon problems. Everywhere you look you see something that needs work, and most of those projects require sizable investments in materials even if you can figure out how to do all the labor yourself. Mortgage, property tax and mandatory homeowner's insurance on a $150K property come out to $1500 per month - not to mention utilities, trash, upkeep and repairs. Living in the woods sounds like a dream until you start walking around and see that most of the lot is overgrown brush strewn with a disheartening amount of old rubbish that requires a huge investment to make into a neat desirable habitation.Yes, owning your own piece of dirt does provide a feeling of empowerment and security that a rentcuck or traveling vagabond can never enjoy. You don't really have to answer to anyone for what you do on your property out in the backwoods. But don't let anyone tell you it's cheap to live in the American countryside in a decaying old home. Even if you are fine with the messiness, there will still be a constant backlog of deferred maintenance costs. And even somebody as much of a skilled DIY handyman as my brother struggles hard with some of the challenges he faces.

Anon08/10/26, 02:20No.2902443

Most Texans will kill any venemous creature they encounter within a hundred yards of their home. Spraying quarts of bug poison is a necessity to keep out pests when you have a million cracks they can enter through. All the same, my bro caught a centipede crawling on his bed blanket in the morning. The bugger was extremely tough, spraying venom out when he was flung to the floor and stepped on with a croc sandal. It took a stomp and grind motion before he finally got crushed. If you should try to smash one by reflex when it crawls on you in your sleep, it will give you the most nightmarish awakening of your life.

Anon08/10/26, 18:49No.2902589

Time to wrap up this thread at the four weeks mark with a friendly salamander. $1446 has been spent to cover 3200 miles and visit twenty towns in five states. Ten out of 28 nights were spent outdoors; the rest were spend in hotels (7), hostels (4), trains (3), and family homes (4). Lodging spend averaged $22.63 per travel day or 44% of the total. Supermarket food cost me $14 per travel day, 27% of the total, and I was eating some pretty good stuff. Covering the vast distances of America does run up a big transport bill, with 114 miles per day covered on average; $313 or 22% of spending is definitely a reasonable price for covering such a distance by train and bus. That's an average of $16 spent for every town town visited. It's worth noting that on most rides I did not have somebody sitting next to me. Miscellaneous spending totaled $103.Peace out, faggots

Anon08/25/26, 09:22No.2905892

quite good

Anon09/20/26, 06:34No.2911322

bump