overheard

[bluedevi]

Last night in the Hobo Hideout I managed to fall asleep though there was a room party going on nearby with chatter and terrible sub-sub-ambient, sub-Chillout-Moods music. What did wake me up was the man outside my door bellowing "Guys, turn it off and go to bed. I have a fuckin´ busy day tomorrow

Comments

[cartographer]

I recognise that one :-) When travelling I find that I like to meet people to hang out with every two to three days, and that I -do- find people every two to three days, but it's frustrating when you're ready to go and the universe starts its counter a couple of days late.

[bluedevi]

gnimmel once did a wonderful graph plotting 'desire to be social' and 'number of social events happening'. The two lines were like two sine waves, where one was always at its peak when the other was a trough...

[julietk]

I had the no-people problem in India - was there just after the India/Pakistan kerfuffle & the FO had only recently lifted its advice against travelling over there. People showed up intermittently anyway, & this did mean that when they did, all parties concerned were v keen to converse :) (I also spoke more to random local people.)

Do the breaking in as an experiment? (Just to see how people react... which is always interesting.) Ideally when you have something else that you can claim the need to do in 5-10 minutes so you can escape if it all goes horribly wrong.

Hate hate hate the creepy men thing.

[bluedevi]

The having 'something else to do' = excellent advice. And yes, I am talking to locals too, which is great.

Travelling alone is fantastic in general, I´m finding. It forces you out of yourself.

[julietk]

It does lots of things, IME. It forces you out of yourself, but it also frees you up to do whatever you fancy at a particular time; it frees you from a lot of expectations (although may place some others on you). It means you can choose the level of sociability you want. And (without getting all hippy about it) I find it to be self-revealing, as well.

And it's top fun :-)

self-revealing, yes

[bluedevi]

I am developing a silly theory about travel as altered state of consciousness :)

[secretrebel]

I haven't posted any comments to your adventures until now but I wanted to say I have been reading them. I was worried about the missing rucksack and it's sad it hasn't been recovered but good that you have gleaned something positive and liberating from its loss. I confess, your travels do sound terrifying to me but I'm glad you're having a good time and I enjoy reading about them from the comfort of my whirly chair.

[bluedevi]

Nice to know you´re reading, and whirly chair sounds really nice right now - I´m sitting on a nasty plastic one and about to go and have a cold shower :)

[carbonunit]

Now I would be looking up Bill Grimes and going on one of his cruises. That way adventure lies!

[bluedevi]

I know! Jaguars, monkeys, anacondas... I´m there :)

[verlaine]

It can't hurt Bill Grimes at all that he has a name straight outta Dickens, can it?