17. I’ve been homeless before…

2010: I transferred to a different university, a semester in, I sold all my belongings and set off on the road. With the amount of necessities on our backs, we hopped on the local bus — 11 hrs, $11 from Seattle, WA to Salem, OR. From Salem we began hitchhiking and hoofing it. You know what got us to get traveling? Depression, suicidal thoughts, and the need to explore before the ever-talked-about 2012 apocalypse that all the prophets talked about. There was a lot of doomsday themes circulating: apocalypse, solar maximum, Earth’s collision with Nibiru, the Mayan’s predictions… that movie, ‘Into the Wild’ made a huge impression on me. So did History 110. (To be continued)