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My point is that there have been hobos for 150 years and that there will be hobos for the forseeable future. Every summer the nations freight rails see a number of collage students and other in search of adventure (Adeventure by defintion is risktaking) Some stay and make a life of traveling and seeing the world first hand. Which is the best education one could get. Some teach and become professers of the road such as Jack Kerowac and Woody Guntrie. It saddens me that there are so few people that I know anymore that travel for the sake of travel itself. The homeless that I run into these days are local people who could not quite make it but refuse to try there luck elsewere because they dont want to step out of there boundrys. The young have so many opertunitys to see the world and yet so few take avantage of them. Sure you could join the service,but how many americans take the time to see this country on there own terms. For those that are not inclined to ride the rails I suggest that you start with the US route System by car or bike with US 1 and US 20 for starters. The problem I have with Interstates is that they have sanitised everything in there path into one tasteless yankee pudding. The Old american railroads served every small town and gave americans a glimpz of americans back yards. As far as Amtrak is concerned is that they have realy missed a opertunity here in that they refuse to serve small and even midsized commnuitys leaving the poor and those without access to cars no access to inter-city transportation(About 20 million People are without cars in the US) and not just that but leaving tourists who are car free from other countrys such as in europe were having a car in a Luxury at 5.00 a gallon Gasoline.
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