I'm now apart of the couch surfing community!

When one door closes another one surely opens! I've recently been (emotionally) kicked out of a "community", and shortly after I met someone from couchsurfing.org and I'm apart of a bigger and better community!

I met a Turkish person who is very well traveled, as they've been a traveler and a couch surfing for only a little time, but has been a lot of places. Naturally, I was on the "You know so much stuff! Tell me your stuff! I want to know all the things!" We went to a cafe, a large park, the Citizens Project office, and to their college's campus - for they have a meeting there, after our meetup.

It was so much fun. I was very nervous about meeting someone new, but we're hanging out again soon, so I guess I'm ok. I'm very happy as I not feel like an office part of the CS.org community, and I'm very honored to be apart of such a large, diverise, well-trusted collodge of people!

It doesn't look good on being ready...

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like I'll be ready to travel when my time comes. I still won't have a choice, as my only other option is to stay homeless in the same location. If i'm going to homeless I figured I may as well travel, but I can't find a proper backpack let alone decent camping gear. I found a bike I love, and would be prefect for the road - for $600, that is. I didn't even bother to price the trailers. My laptop is old and becoming more busted everyday, and it's becoming more of a hassle to move around town with, let alone take it on the road. It's so old it takes up too much power to plug into shared power ports. And, it HAS to be plugged in to operate because the battery is old, and doesn't go unplugged for more than 7 minutes. I can't complain about it too much because it's better than nothing right now, but it doesn't seem like it will do me any good while I'm traveling. No one's going to want to trade it for anything of real value because it's so old - I'm stuck with it. The new laptop I picked out is $600, and the tablet is $300. I want to send my valuables home to my parents, but that costs money I don't have and it doesn't look like I will have. I don't want to have to sell them. They're valuable to me, but not to someone else to get enough money to make it worth losing.

I just don't know what I'm going to do. I want to be in at least a decent state of being able to travel on my own, instead of having to do it the hard way - being carry everything I can fit into a small normal type backpack and literally walk my journey. It's also going to be sometime in January when all the shelters are likely to be full, if I'm very landed in a place with shelters.

This is turning out to look like something more horrible but necessary than fun and an important piece of my life. There's a level of "horrible" given I have to do it, vs my options, but my options are worse - in my perspective. I don't want to turn into one of those crazy homeless people that have been on the streets in the same place for 20 years!

I have a job here, but they don't care to have the schedule sheet available for me so I can sign up for hours. They don't call when hours are open, even though I'M ON CALL. And, the only person on call, at that! I'm looking for another job, with no luck until school is back in session which will only give me 3 or 4 months in my current situation to work EVERYTHING out. Aside form my traveling stuff I have other reasonableness to my current situation. Outside of my situation, I can't find a new place to live in town on my budget. It would be counterproductive to move outside of town, because i don't have a car to come back into town at will. And, the bus system here can't give a single care about stuff like that. I have only a few friends with cars, and they also have their own lives to live. I won't have any gas money for them, either. You know, because I live out of town where there are no jobs, and too far away to get to a job, so I'll have no job, no money, no ride. 

What should I do? What CAN I do? This whole thing looks hopeless, now.

Youjo’s TRAVELS?!

I’ve decided to take my current situation for what it’s worth, and it’s worth seeing all I can see and doing all I can do! I’m slowly but surely getting set up to start traveling with online jobs, short term offline gigs, donations, planning where I’m going to put my stuff, where my mail’s going to go and all that other good stuff!

Right now, I’m not looking at leaving the mainland of the USA. While I’m in the next place I’m going to I’ll be planning routes and the ways I will be getting there. Most of my transportation will be by charterer bus and bike. I’m sure I’ll have the occasional ride to places, but I’m not counting on that being a common event.

On the subject of events, I will be visiting major cities, major towns, and major events! The only thing I know right now is that I surely be chasing down some anime conventions! Given what’s going I doubt I’ll be able to cosplay anytime soon, but given the same situation I’m fine with that.

I have decided I will make a website decided to the details of my travels! I’ll pick it up from where I started in CO, take it to TX, and go from there. I’ll put travel videos and cyber/ busking on either Dailymotion or Vimeo… or both. It’s not like it would hurt. I might post trailers to the videos on Youtube. My Youtube will stay unrelated to my travels, but continue to the the rant/talk/random profile it is now. I will post photos on Flickr! I’ll still host my LGBTQ chats from time to time, and I will making use of the public Google Calendar, again! I’ll also host random and travel chats.

I’m already opening up my donation sites, and I’ve started some of the online work. I’ve yet to start the busking, but that’s likely to start when I get to my next location. I will start the travel website soon! Naturally, some things will be on my other blogs (like here and my blogger) but the DETAILS will be on the website.

If anyone has any ideas on traveling, busking skills, or places and events to visit FEEL FREE to tell me about them! *points to ask box*

That’s all for now! And, yes. I have lost my mind!