Van Living In The SE USA

Bangkok, Thailand

Hiroshima, Japan

Thailand

San Francisco

International Nomad

Links

The Dharma Bums; On the Road; Desolation Angels;etc....

Walden; Journals,....

Narrow Road to the Far North;...

The Adding Machine

Into the Wild

Danziger's Travels

Travels With Charly

The Way of the Traveler

The Art of Pilgrimage

Ten Years of Living In Cars

Design for Dying; Politics of Ecstacy;....

The Perennial Philosophy; Doors of Perception;...

Beyond Backpacking: Guide to Lightweight Hiking

The Celestine Prophecy

Your Money or Your Life

The Alchemist

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Beat Spirit; Shaving the Inside of Your Skull

Tropic of Cancer;.....

Leaves of Grass

Howl; etc.....

No Logo

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

The Art of Living

Millenium; TAZ; Immediatism;...

Being Peace;....

The Tao Te Ching

The Tao of Pooh

The Bhagavad Gita

The Essential Rumi;...

Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing

The Snow Leopard

Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

In Patagonia

Desert Solitaire

A Walk Across America

Rolling Nowhere

The Razor's Edge

Simplicity, Freedom, Loving-Kindness, Self-Reliance, Creativity!Hobopoet is an anti-copyright site. Copy and distribute at will (but please credit the appropriate writer-- a link to this site would be nice too!)1. Simplicity2. Freedom3. Loving-Kindness4. Self-Reliance5. CreativityApril 2003 -- August 2004September 2004 -- February 2005February 2005 -- May 2005June 2005 -- November 2005November 2005 -- 20112011 --"Poets are those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss... Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they'd be. Always go where you want to go -- where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling then stay with it, don't let anyone throw you off." --Joseph Campbell"When you're on a journey, and the end keeps getting further and further away, then you realize that the real end is the journey." --Karlfried Graf DurckheimFantastic- The anarchist-sufi prophet of Hobopoets! Visit this site!!Dedicated to ecology, anarchism, and primitivism. Fantastic blog.. great compliment to Hakim Bey's ideas.Philosophy, Psychedelics, Politics, & Society. Great thought provoking stuff.Notes from a progressive hellraiser and freedom fighter.Anarchist-philosopher, questioner. Tom's blog is excellent and thought provokingGreat blog from an international hobo... follow his travels.Matt Salleh's adventures in MalaysiaShiori is a talented writer and painter.A fantastic blog from a fellow Georgian Hobopoet!A traveler and hater of work.... nice thoughts on living a meaningful life.The writings of a woman who is staunchly resistent in ever parting with her lovelylife of an undergrad slash part-time barista which is everfaithful in churning quickmoney to satisfy her wickedwanderlust!Writing, Photos, and Art by the talented hobopoetCym Urban's thoughts and reflections on the meaning, purpose and nature of life.Jessica's Memorial WebsiteRolf is an excellent travel writer. This is a great site for international wanderers.A lawyer for the poor, the injured, the forgotten and the damned against "the new slave masters," mammoth corporation and mammoth government.THE resource page for "alternative" mental health, anti-psychiatry, NLP and neurologyTwenty years on the streetA younger, female perspective on living homeless.A fascinating hobopoet. Read about his pilgrimages.For those of you who think the Hobopoet life is only for the young... check out Rambling Ron's website!!Tips on buying cheap land, great essays, etc.John O. Andersen's Blog. Good stuff.Terry's personal philosophy: Kept it simple, clear, direct, and fun!The liberal answer to the christian coalition.A freedom fighter and social worker, Jonathan is an advocate for homeless people and those dealing with schizophrenia.A good assortment of thoughts on passion and innovationA blog that takes on those in power and fights the good fight.This is a great hobopoet site about life on the road.Great haiku, prose, and photography from Jabiz Raisdana. Submit your own haiku!A waystation for wanderers, travellers, nomads, vagabonds, adventurers, outsiders and hobos (ie. perfect for Hobopoet readers)!Fighting the good fight for freedom and autonomy...check out this excellent blog.One tramps journey......"Because of the dogma of workerism, unemployment is a problem rather than the boon to humanity that it should be." --Len Bracken"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.... Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually, though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have." -- Henry David ThoreauTools, Examples & Contacts For Conscious, Simple, Healthy & Restorative LivingBasic car living infoLots and lots of info on RV living... much of it applicable to car living as wellThe Net's largest compendium of information relating to House Buses and House TrucksFor van addicts everywhere. Has a short essay on living in your van.Dedicated to the promotion of renewable, sustainable technologies that are used to provide Food, Water, Shelter, and other survival needs.Great source for camping (and car living) gear. Scan their "hot deals" for cheap stuffTONS of information on RVs and RVing... much of it applicable to van/car living."Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not onlyindispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor" -- Henry David Thoreau"A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase in life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.... I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage. My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby... And in my own life I am not willing to trade quality for quantity." --John Steinbeck, Travels With CharlyGreat site with tons of info on the modern hobo lifeGreat hobo site with lots of links to hobo related informationWebsite for the modern Hobo.... work and transportation have changed, but the spirit of freedom and nomadism lives on.Boxcar Whitey's Boxcarfull of Lore, Tall Tales, Witticism, Traveling Anecdotes. Hobo stories, river lore, etc. Very interesting.Extensive resource for photographs, stories, and articles about freighthopping, hoboes, and boxcar art."The difference between a priest and a shaman is that a priest is a functionary and the shaman is someone who has had an experience." --Joseph CampbellBuild housing for homeless people. These guys rock!! Their huts cost $300 or less to make and are great for Hobopoets too!!The homeless choose their own fate. DV is a tent city in Portland, Oregon.International site on squatting, voluntary homelessness, etc...A discussion list for people who are or were formerly homelessA publication by and for Homeless Folks."Trust yourself to react appropriately when catastrophe happens. Failure of nerve is really failure to trust yourself." -- Alan Watts"The negative refusal ofis "homelessness", which most consider a form of victimization, not wishing to beinto nomadology. But "homelessness" can in a sense be a virtue, an adventure- so it appears, at least, to the huge international movement of the squatters, our modern hobos." -Hakim BeyFantastic meditation courses all over the world (free)!! I HIGHLY recommend them.Links to books, tapes, and retreats by the re-knowned Zen monkBasic info and resources concerning zen buddhismExtensive information about Drugs/EntheogensTheir purpose is to gather knowledge about the effects of entheogen use.Writings of the shaman-sorcerer. An excellent compilation.Legal entheogen catalog for the modern shaman/skaldArticles dedicated primarily to the expansion of consciousness. Also great info on van living.Good information on TaoismGood information about compassionate eating: vegetarianism and veganism."WORK, for example, is a far more actual source of misery for most of us than legislative politics."-- Hakim Bey"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." --Alan WattsA guide to militant unemployment!Hobo golf (usually free)A fun, social, and CHEAP form of recreation held all over N. AmericaGreat anti-work, anti-corporate site.Anti-corporate, anti-consumer site... good stuff.Examines how fear-inducing belief systems perpetuate a wage-slave society.Creative Alternatives to Wage Slavery"Act as if you were already free... take the risk, dance before you calcify."-- Hakim BeyWe must constantly remind ourselves (since our culture won`t do it for us) that this monster called WORK remains the precise & exact target of our rebellious wrath, the one single most oppressive reality we face. - Hakim BeyA fantastic self-publishing site. No upfront costs. The wave of the future for DIY publishers.Jen Leo's travel writing site. Very good and very informative.Great site with information about being a freelance writer.A Poetry playhouse for itinerant poetics.A brief biography of the celebrated wanderer and poetThe original Dharma Bums. Great stuff.A glorious site with poems and a biography of the restless mad genius.A collection of links and info on the great writer-philospher."In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness" -- Henry David Thoreau"Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony..." --Alan WattsThere is a war on for your mind.Athens, Georgia's standard-bearer of indy journalism, art, and music.Another incredible site for independent news!Another great source for independent newsThe name says it all: Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. A media watchdog (but the name may be an oxymoron :)A brilliant cartoon, more informative than most mainstream media and alot funnierBiting political satire and great cartoons!"And what is the nature of a wasteland? It is a land where everybody is living an inauthentic life, doing as other people do-- doing as you're told, with no courage for your own life. To live an authentic life, Take your wisdom from your own experience. Because in thinking, the majority is always wrong." --Joseph Campbell"All societies tremble when the scornful aristocracy of the tramps, the inaccessibles, the uniques, the rulers over the ideal, and the conquerors of the nothing resolutely advances." --Hakim BeyIndependent travel stories from around the world. Contribute your own.Travel dispatches from a shrinking planet. Good travel writing site.Independent travel tales. Submit your own.Sort of an interactive, online guide to traveling the world. Do without the heavy guidebook.The budget backpacker's standard. Where to stay, how to get there, etc... Good nuts and bolts guides for the budget traveler.Another excellent series of budget guidebooks.Rolf is an excellent travel writer. This is a great site for international wanderers.Neo-Nomadic life for those with some moneyTips for the international Hobopoet!My English teaching website.This is a fantastic method for teaching English! Great materials for teachers.Take TPR to the next level. Great for intermediate and advanced students.An innovative approach to teaching English. Complements TPRS nicely!Incredible site by the expert on natural teaching approaches. More oriented towards academic research than classroom techniques.Automatic Language Growth. Fantastic ideas about language teaching!The mother of all job sites for teaching English internationally.This is a good TESOL career site.A great one stop job search portal for TESOL (teaching English).A great online magazine with tons of information about working, living, and traveling abroad.Lots of Job listings for Japan, as the name implies!Another great source for jobs and information about teaching in Japan.A Japanese site with university job listings.This is the largest and most comprehensive website for English teaching in Thailand. Has an extensive job board, plus general information about living in ThailandAn in-depth site with practical information about living and working in Bangkok. Cocky, cynical and negative- but the basic info is good.Site for teaching English and living in Taiwan, including a job board.Another year is gone -A travel hat on my head,Straw sandals on my feet--Basho"If there's one thing I hate, it's the word "safety". We live in a civilization of safety, in which we are eventually cocooned from all danger, that is to say, from all experience. What we are left with is a vegetable plugged into a computer, who never leaves the room, like a hideous vision of a William Gibson novel. We would be well advised to rediscover risk." --Hakim BeyAn excellent distance learning Masters program in TESOLDirectory of online programs and courses. A good place to start a search for a distance learning program.Huge searchable database of American distance learning programs. Includes both undergraduate and graduate programs in many fields.Links and information about UK based distance learning programs."Remember above all things that to write is not difficult, not painful, that it comes out of you with ease, that you can whip up a little tale in no time, that when you are sincere about it, that when you want to impress a truth, it is not difficult, not painful, but easy, graceful, full of smooth power, as if you were a writing machine with a store of literature that is boundless, enormous, endless, rich. For it is true; this is so. Do not forget it in your gloomier moments. Make your stuff warm, drive it home American-wise, don't mind critics, don't mind the stuffy academic theses of scholars, they don't know what they are talking about, they're way off the track, they're cold; you're warm, you're red hot, you can write all day, you know what you know...." -- Jack Kerouac(Jack Kerouac)(Henry David Thoreau)(Basho)(William S. Burroughs)(John Krakauer)(Nick Danziger)(John Steinbeck)(Joseph Dispenza)(Philip Cousineau)(Craig Roberts)(Timothy Leary)(Aldous Huxley)(Ray Jardine)(James Redfield)(Joe Dominguez)(Paulo Coelho)(Carlos Casteneda)(Mel Ash)(Henry Miller)(Walt Whitman)(Allen Ginsberg)(Naomi Klein)(Shunryu Suzuki)(S.N. Goenka)(Hakim Bey)(Thich Nhat Hanh)(Lao Tzu)(Benjamin Hoff)(Jelaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks)(Frederick Franck)(Peter Matthiessen)(Tim Cahill)(Bruce Chatwin)(Edward Abbey)(Peter Jenkins)(Ted Conover)(Somerset Maugham)"Take your wisdom from your own experience"--Joseph Campbell"No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge"--Jack Kerouac"You're a genius all the time"--Jack Kerouac