Don't Go Back to Rockville

[Failure Artist]

Hello, I'm a total newbie and not very punk at all (see the title I chose!), but I intend to hitchhike to Atlanta for my 25th birthday. I found this place searching for info on the late DigiHitch and have been lurking for awhile. I decided to register so I could ask for help and maybe put up photos from my trip.

I am a "recent" college graduate (Dec 2008) and haven't been successful in the real world. I'm living with my mother in Rockville, MD and I'm getting really tired of it. I majored in history and minored in studio arts, and have an interest in both. I want to be a writer but I feel like I need to have a life before I start writing about life. I have gone camping before but never backpacking, and I hitchhiked once in desperation to get to job training (didn't work out). I am crazy, but what do I have to lose but my chains?

 

[chip]

Walk out the front door, friend.

 

[Diagaro]

do it!!!
sound like chris McCandlis
just dont go to alaska like a big ol' nerd

 

[Failure Artist]

Major setback: the money I was going to use for traveling hasn't arrived yet, and I think I messed up. It's a joint account so I need my mom's help. I've told her I'm going on a trip, but not about the hitchhiking part. Damnit damnit damnit.

 

[finn]

NIH is closeby, maybe you could be a lab rat for money. The DC area also has a good amount of woods, but unless you're good at tracking, I'd be very careful about where I'd camp because of the number of people living there. Next time you go for a walk, check out the woods and think about where you would camp and look for signs that others have camped (not just went drinking) around the place.

 

[Failure Artist]

I fixed the problem. I just have to delay my trip for a few days. Everything's fine.

 

[Failure Artist]

I really wish I hadn't told my parents about this. I feel like now I'll have to make a whole fake itinerary for them.

 

[ThrashAndBurn]

do it. just do what ever you need to do to get out once you do you don't have to fallow shit.

 

[chip]

If you want to be nice, just agree to call them every so often, so they don't worry. But it sounds like you're itching to go, so I think you'd better get out there.

 

[anost]

I'm from MOCO too, Rockville sucks. Good Luck.

 

[Failure Artist]

Well, I'm in Hotlanta now. Hitchhiked to Richmond (3 rides, 2 female 1 male), tried to go to a really cheap hotel on the outskirts but had no money, and I camped out with a homebum in the woods during a pouring rainstorm. What an adventure. Next day the check cleared (why didn't I delay my trip? Stupid me.) so I took a cab to the train station and took a train to Atlanta (Amtrak, not hopping). Now I'm in a hostel. Looking forward to sleeping in a real bed tonight.