>>877245>how often do you travel, howUsually whenever I feel like it, mainly by hitchhiking. Whenever I'm in a city that I like I'll stay anywhere from a week to a month, any more than that and I start to get anxious about leaving. When I'm going somewhere without a time frame and passing through random towns, I'll stay anywhere from less than a day to three days or so in the area.
>possessionsBesides gear? I carry a rock case for crystals and the like, at any given time the case is worth $300-$2000 dollars. I'm learning guitar so I'm carrying a guitar around now too. I have a habit of collecting random trinkets, so i have random small shit in my bag that's essentially useless and meaningless to most. As for gear im carrying; my sleeping bag, my dog's sleeping bag which is a down shell I zip to my bag, two tarps, a bedroll and random odds and ends like sewing stuff or a portable charger.
>networkingOf course we talk to others, networking is where it's at. Living this life successfully is a delicate process of making yourself unavailable. You need to have your own things you're doing but at the same time its nice to go and meet other travelers or talk to the locals who are interested in you. Networking also gives you information about the area you wouldn't get otherwise.
Now, if you meant do I take down everyone's phone and email and keep in touch, no, very few people do I exchange numbers with and even fewer do I keep in touch with. It's pretty much a given that you'll see them when you see them. These are the interactions that make it all the more worth it; when you hang out with some random guy in Colorado and then meet them again in Washington and later in Arizona, that's when you make your friends. You might only have hung out collectively for less than a day together but the randomness of it all means that by the time you see each other in Arizona there's an unspoken agreement that you're friends of some sort. There's only so many of us out here.
