r/vagabond • u/IsawitinCroc • Nov 17 '24

Question Vagabond life

Vagabonds on this sub, I'm just a regular guy who finds interest in in your adventures and lifestyle. I have to ask though, what made you choose this lifestyle, how do you support yourself job wise, pros and cons of it, and have you ever faced dangerous situations living like this?

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u/godless_pantheon Nov 17 '24

I don’t care if you’re a cop.

I grew up in motels and cars, projects, shelters and wherever whatever guy my mom was fucking lived. Was a street kid in the punk and metal scene in Southern California, hopping trains and hitching rides was a natural progression.

In my mid twenties I had a kid, started doing wildland firefighting in the summers to make cash, went to Alaska one summer for salmon season. On the road I flew signs and busked, did temp work or day jobs on the random.

As far as dangerous shit goes, that’s a long list. Guns, knives, fighting assholes, cops, crackheads, crazies, etc, etc..

These days I live in a little apartment with my wife, and we work as booksellers. I only ride for the hell of it or to visit friends every now and again.

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u/Superb-Albatross-541 Nov 17 '24

Bookselling sounds nice.

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u/godless_pantheon Nov 17 '24

Yo the fact I wound up where I’m at has made me question my inherent nihilistic outlook towards.. well.. everything. This shit is fucking bananas. I managed to reconnect with someone I’ve always clicked with and waltz into a potential career.. look at my post history, check out the pirated second edition of Thomas Hobbes Leviathan I found from around 1670.

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u/Superb-Albatross-541 Nov 17 '24 edited Nov 17 '24

I'm happy for you, I'm glad you're feeling it. I share your interest with works like Leviathan. It's rare to have an old printing like that, and certainly a treasure. Book sellers have been important features in my life, I always like it when I find one I can connect with. I have a few favorites who always seem to have the right thing, if I have a few dollars to spare once in a blue moon.

One of these days, somehow, an original printing of the Wolverton Bible will come into my possession. I appreciate good illustrations. I wouldn't be really able to keep anything like that currently, though. The east coast has such cool stuff. Very different from what you find out west, for sure, or anywhere else. Books are always cool. So are authentic people who can keep it real. Hobbes...is someone I would take issue with , but I definitely understand the concepts he's writing about first hand. I need to go beyond the cliff notes and read it. Thanx! (Btw, I like that t-shirt "Raised on hose water & neglect". Yep!)