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Here’s a video that happened to come up on my YouTube feed today. It’s by someone doing what I’ve always thought of as the quintessential hobo activity: hopping
by tkgally 3y ago
Here’s a video that happened to come up on my YouTube feed today. It’s by someone doing what I’ve always thought of as the quintessential hobo activity: hopping a freight train. Beautiful scenery.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xlPWF8LFXS0 https://youtube.com/watch?v=xlPWF8LFXS0
- watmough 3y agoBeware, this is kind of a deep rabbithole. I suggest to look up his trip up from Mexico, following the migrant route. For a different view of the same trip, his travelling companion (automous something) has his own channel. RanOutOnARail isn't really a hobo though ... I think he's a software engineer in Texas somewhere. Hobo Shoestring has an interesting channel also, albeit with a home base. You'll learn a lot about trains, and hobos' most hated adversaries, the 'homebums'. :D And of course, there's a 10x hobo, in stobe-the-hobo (RIP), well worth watching all his videos.
- ljf 3y agoStobe's videos got me through lockdown. Was so sad to hear he had died. Stunning videos, huge character, and so much soul in the journeys he went on.
- tumdum_ 3y agoYou might find this channel interesting: https://youtube.com/@shiey https://youtube.com/@shiey
- asdfqwertzxcv 3y agoLove Shiey and he also goes on quite a few trips with this guy (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8iPVSFr42KUFf8DKsmnvSw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8iPVSFr42KUFf8DKsmnvSw) who is very well educated and more philosophical and artistic than Shiey. Like them both a lot, but they're different flavors of the same genre.
- iammjm 3y agoAnd you might find this channel interesting: https://www.youtube.com/@VagrantHoliday https://www.youtube.com/@VagrantHoliday
- ljf 3y agoCan't beat Stobe the Hobo's videos, though sadly jumping trains killed him in the end: https://youtube.com/@hobostobearchive6909 https://youtube.com/@hobostobearchive6909