Yes it does, and I'm gonna have a good time summerbumming from town to town around the mountains on these state-operated buses.
>but you can't get around the city without a carAlso 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.
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.
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
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.
>>2897692US also has upwards mobility, so most people don't have to use it unlike Gayrope where most people are basically stuck in their parents socio-economic class. Sorry, Piotr, mommy is a cashier and daddy works at the stroyka, here's your montly bus talon, get used to it.
kek, this LARPing tard is talking to russians now, is your bullshit going to turn into some pro-ukie screed now, Saul?
>>2897706Ive never met a Russian i didnt like but I can assure you public transportation in America is not better than a 2 out of 10. It goes nowhere you want to be
>>2897744Look at the map I posted you tard. You can quite literally bus your vagabond ass all over rural Colorado. Granted, some states are shittier. Don't ride the bus in Arkansas or Alabama, it's nothing more than inter-ghetto transport for the trashiest poors and felons.Picrel my campsite last night in pretty little Walsenburg. I only have a mini blanket, so it did get a little cool as temps dropped from 85° at sunset to 60° by dawn. BTW traveling India has drastically reduced my sensitivity to discomfort. Only a plastic rain poncho underneath to keep the dried grass from pricking me. I used my duffel as a pillow.
Saw this extremely cute bat half the length of my finger snoozing on a garage door on Main Street
>>2897805>Picrel my campsite last night in pretty little Walsenburg. I only have a mini blanket, so it did get a little cool as temps dropped from 85° at sunset to 60° by dawn. BTW traveling India has drastically reduced my sensitivity to discomfort. Only a plastic rain poncho underneath to keep the dried grass from pricking me. I used my duffel as a pillow.>no tentdidnt you get raped by mosquitoes? or there werent really many?and cant you get raped by state troopers?
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.
>>2897809sounds kino. having working rights while traveling is OP af. how do you shower though? are the libraries actually decent in terms of books?
>>2897589Seattle 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.
>>2897808Police couldn't care less about a guy living free, minding his business and paying his own way in libertarian Colorado. I had to dip into Safeway to fill my bottle at the water fountain. Public water sources are only found indoors in America, it seems. One guy passed my camp on a bicycle at dusk, said hi and kept going; nobody else came by. It was an unimproved nature preserve area next to the dried-up Cucharas River behind the town baseball fields. Severe drought means no pest insects, only swarms of ants in some grassy areas. Horrible wildfire is currently decimating the once cool and shady forests of the Wet Mountains. Very sad to see, but I'm glad to not get rained on or damped by morning dew.Travel budget is ideally a $66.6 per day average, or $2000 per month equivalent. Yeah it's awfully high for being 75% homeless. Twice as high as my van travels, even when accounting for van purchase cost divided by length of ownership period. Today I have no food or transport expenses, so I can get a room. Hopefully I can find a room tonight for $70 or thereabouts. Walsenburg had some cheapish motels in that price range, but La Veta has fewer options and they seem more boutique. Lots of outside money coming in, my biker friend said. People have gotten pretentious, a town full of Karens. Whatever. I'll sleep rough again tonight before I pay $140 for bed access. In a dry climate it doesn't feel as gross to be unshowered. Showering with my 1.5 liter water bottle is also an option, if I can find both a place to fill it up and also a wooded thicket where I can strip down and then towel off with my microfiber mini towel. Laundromat had free bath towels, but my bags are already stuffed to the max. If I get a job I'll want a full week's worth of clothes, so I'm reluctant to throw anything away.
>>2897818>Travel budget is ideally a $66.6 per day average, or $2000 per month equivalent. Yeah it's awfully high for being 75% homeless.*record scratching noise*HOW MUCH??? Nah fuck that lol
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.
>>2897821>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.Get a radio and rechargeable batteries instead of listening to algorithm slop. Radio always plays local stations and greatly enhances my travel. It makes each place actually feel different>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.Damn didnt know that. I have to update my opinion on shitsville, USA now
>>2897820Anon I live in a 123sqft micro apt in Seattle and I don’t even spend 2k a month on the entirety of my living expenses. >>2897821Are you seriously puttering around in Nakhon Nowhere blaring music? Why not use headphones? You’re gonna get somchai’d
>>2897824All you need are wired headphones to access FM radio on any smartphone.>>2897826But you never seem happy, you never have adventure. All you do is sit like a bug in a box and pine away for the touch of a 19 year old disco dancing hooker on the other side of the world. Whereas I'm living the kind of American vagabond life I've dreamed of for so many years...but was always too chickenshit, unwilling to deliberately throw away job/house/car, unwilling to set out with minimal savings knowing how much USA travel costs. But now at last I have the opportunity, and the money. Eight months overseas didn't even eat up 25% of my funds. That frugality - and the discomfort endured by being cheap, in India no less - now enables me to genuinely enjoy being adrift in rural America, and to even feel passably comfortable doing so.
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.
>>2897810Many libraries have books for sale for very cheap. If you already have a book, you can ask to exchange it with one from the sale rack. Most bums phonerot on library WiFi tho, they never read because their homeless condition is a product of retardation, not choice.Public showers are very rare in the USA. Some private businesses have showers. During my van days I used to sneak into state park campgrounds for a hot shower, but state parks are rarely accessible to a foot traveler. Pouring water over your head in a public bathroom makes a mess and is frowned upon, but it works in a pinch if there is no secluded forest thicket like picrel to hide away in.
>>2897814So you are a homebody with zero interest in going places. Okay, got it. Why are you even posting on this board?
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.
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: $5.84Six places visited in two states.
>>2897861Hitchhiking is amazing and is one of my best travel experiences. You get a free ride, they get entertainment. And you get to meaningfully connect with local people. More people should do it.>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.You'll get their eventually>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. Cope, you fumbled>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.Just be anti-meta. That guy told you the meta, all of the normies act like him and try to larp as disinterested towards girls. You probably could have fucked the cashier if you complimented her on her eyes and got her number then took her out and told your stories>>2897867>I still haven't gotten a US phone plan, because even a cheap phone + plan from Walmart would be a day's spending.Your best bet is to buy a used phone off craigslist (ebay is better but you dont have an address)For plans, Tello was about $6 a month for me. Just get whatever MVNOYou're probably going to need to get one eventually to get a job
this isn't your creative writing class notebook, OP, if you have no real travel experiences to relay then take it to /lit/
>>2897874Woah so bluepilled. "Just spoil pretty women bro, it's totally worth it bro". Dude was anything but a normie, he was a very angry and plain-spoken man with a long white beard, he dispensed with the NPC pleasantries and went straight to real talk. It was like we barely started conversing and the 20 minute ride was over already. Next time I entered the store she called me sir. Women have more respect for guys who aren't suckered by their physical charms.Good to hear about Tello. Seems you'd need an eSIM compatible phone to take advantage of their low monthly rates. There doesn't seem to be any place in rural America to buy a physical SIM card apart from Walmart. The Lyca Mobile shop on Venice Beach is the only phone store I've encountered in a week of traveling.Jesus, Amtrak going east from Denver is a fucking ripoff if you buy a few days in advance. It's only 540 miles, should be fifty bucks but it's $200+ for most travel days. Likewise for buses to the more obscure parts of America, like the Denver to Buffalo, WY route. But at least you feel like you're having an adventure for your money riding to obscure Wyoming towns. Sadly, buses on that route often get cancelled due to lack of ridership.Greyhound is generally less of a price-gouge, but it always forces you to take routes between major cities, with seats as hard and cramped as Spirit Airlines. I really don't want to go freaking Denver to Omaha, that kind of intercity travel is a tiresome slog on a bus full of losers, not a scenic adventure to a remote place.
>>2897955>Next time I entered the store she called me sir.ah so then u fucked?
