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I also want to give a special mention to Moab, quite possibly the coolest town I've encountered on my travels. There are two types of people in Moab; tourists and travellers. Everybody there is so welcoming, everybody says hello to eachother and it's completely normal to meet somebody new there and just go rock climbing or rafting or skinny dipping. It's got a real magic to it.
Most of the traveller types you meet have no interest in living inside the system and instead choose to find ways to sustain there travels and it's so refreshing to meet people who don't care about bills or debt or petty gossip but just enjoy the breeze and the stars. When you travel for a bit it does feel like there is a sense of weightlessness not having any worries or care about the future but just having faith that things will be alright and the world will look after you so long as you embrace it. So meeting other people with this approach was incredible. It makes me think back to home in London where all anybody does is moan and complain about their silly petty lives and I don't know how I can live in that environment.
The hub of this town is a quaint little unknown coffee place that you wouldn't know unless someone told you about it called FMC. I call it a coffee place because the owner makes his own coffee beans which he sells to local restaurants and coffee shops which is how he makes his money but he opens his door to anybody that wants to make themselves coffee which has formed the basis for the community. Here I met so many people but most significantly I met this two guys, one who hikes across the country and one who bikes across the country both of whom live out their tent, they welcomed me without a second thought into their group and took me on some cool adventures. It made leaving Moab really hard.
Unfortunately it looks like Moab is growing too rapidly so go there while you can because right now the locals are saying the end of moab as we know it is soon to come
