lightspree

Yeah, if I walked out the door like that, I'd do it very early in the morning and my first step would be to find something that would serve at least temporarily as clothing.

Not that hard to do.

Second priority would be to find something more sufficient.

First hurdles and adventures.

alan s 

Sounds like a reality tv show. Naked and Afraid | Discovery

lightspree

Thanks. I'll check it out.

I've actually done something similar. First clothing was some humble torn rags that had snagged on some trees during a flood. Worked. Looked a bit like Tarzan for a few hours.

mstateglfr 

My first step would be in the direction of a job since I have nothing and need stuff to accomplish my goal...to tour.
My second thru thousandth step would be filled with thoughts of regret due to how stupid I was to tie up all my loose ends seeing as how that resulted with me apparently having literally nothing. I would also regret being such a poor planner. I would then find work and earn money. I would have to find a place to store said money, so a bank account would be opened. Since it takes time to earn enough money to tour, I would find housing to live in while I earned money.
Months later, i would realize I was right back to where I was when I tied up loose ends. I would once again realize that this was a stupid plan, I was not some deep thinker, and that a child could have come up with a better process for touring.

shelbyfv

Shall we take up a collection and buy OP a bike? Ride more, blather less? What is it about the Touring forum that so attracts the deranged?

indyfabz

The sock drawer is jam-packed.

shelbyfv

14 of the 30 posts in this thread are from OP.

lightspree

How come Whitman and Kerouac and Gary Snyder and others could do these things with a great sense of freedom and adventure?

Is this all you guys have got?

indyfabz

Make that 15 now, assuming none of the other posts are from socks.

alan s 

If you do it without cyberbegging, I promise I'll subscribe to your thread.

fietsbob

Give up your Phone too






...

lightspree

Here is one course I would consider: after the clothing basics, I would head for a friendly, medium-sized town. I know of some good prospects, from past tours and travels.

I would choose one with good thrift stores. I would approach the managers and explain what I am trying to do. I would also explain that I have skills and work to offer in exchange, and am not looking for a handout. I would make it a point to more than compensate them in this way, do good work, and make sure they felt genuinely good about the transactions (=trading work for useful stuff that comes in).

Within a short time, I would have bike, camping gear, and a touring setup.

For money, I would consider busking. No need at all for a bank account.

There are lots of other possibilities.

lightspree

Too easy to solve....

lightspree

You can do better, my good man. I know you can.

mstateglfr 

Do better at what? I would do what I said I would do.

This exercise is not even worthy of a high school philosophy class' time.

Sharpshin

Its been done before....



...an encyclodpedic knowledge of local plant flora and the properties thereof helps, plus the ability to go without eating for days and endure prodigies of discomfort and hardship. Even given all that, ya just might starve to death anyhow.

A puzzle really that even the Bushmen when given a chance abandon this carefree lifestyle.

WRT Thoreau, I forget, was he REALLY carbon neutral (metaphorically speaking) at Walden, or was he eating stuff other people had grown?

Mike

lightspree

You can come up with better stuff than this.

mstateglfr 

CAN I? Yes.
WILL I? Not likely. Such a fauxlosophical challenge isnt deserving of actual effort or thought. Drawing inspiration from an alcoholic antagonist or quoting Whitman doesnt make this thread worthy of anything more than whats already happened- comments and chuckles.

lightspree

Thoreau wasn't much of a traveler-adventurer. Whitman had more of that taking-to-the-open-road spirit. And Kerouac. And Snyder.

Into the Wild was a miscarriage, ending in death by starvation.

But others did it differently. Whitman did some very inspired touring on the open roads....

And he was able to do it without a lot of gear and money.

lightspree

Or maybe you just can't. You certainly haven't shown anything so far, other than this kind of inaccuracy, sourness and hostility.

SpeshulEd 

You've heard of Ultra Romance, right?
Ultra Romance: This Man Left a Normal Life Behind to Find Adventure | Bicycling

indyfabz

Can you use your Super Moderator powers to put an end to this mess?

obed7

If you find the subject matter silly and not to your liking, don't participate. If you choose to participate do it in a respectful manner. Re-read the forum rules. I would close the thread because of all the disrespectful stuff that has been posted, but the OP did not violate any rules in this subject matter and several of the responses have or come very close to it and I have no desire at this point to let a couple of pain in the butts win. Any further harassment or trolling on this thread will draw the standard moderator response.

lightspree

Thanks so much for that. It was quite needed.

lightspree

CI hadn't seen that one before -- thanks, I'll check it out.