Canada Must Have a Shortage of Beautiful Women

[Anonymous]

Look, it's Buddha.

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That's Olive Oyl on the right.

No that's just a typical Canadian male.

 

[Blurt]

Don't sweat it, Jock. You're atypical.



You still ride trains, ffs.  :001_tongue:

[Anonymous]

Don't sweat it, Jock. You're atypical.



You still ride trains, ffs.  :001_tongue:

But, unlike most people, he gets paid to do it.

[Anonymous]

Don't sweat it, Jock. You're atypical.



You still ride trains, ffs.  :001_tongue:

I will have you know,  I operate them. ac_sothere

[cc]

So there!!!

[Anonymous]

Don't sweat it, Jock. You're atypical.



You still ride trains, ffs.  :001_tongue:

I will have you know,  I operate them. ac_sothere

Your type of trains have no passengers.

[Blurt]

He thinks.  :001_tongue:



In my youth, I've hopped non-passenger trains while on the road in central Canada. A total blast. Bring your own blanket.

[Anonymous]

He thinks.  :001_tongue:



In my youth, I've hopped non-passenger trains while on the road in central Canada. A total blast. Bring your own blanket.

It is also highly illegal. CN or CP police would have given you a pricey fine for trespassing if you got caught.

[cc]

True.



However, in many 3rd world countries  .. riding atop trains, trucks, buses etc. is a major form of transportation



Planes don't end well

[Anonymous]

He thinks.  :001_tongue:



In my youth, I've hopped non-passenger trains while on the road in central Canada. A total blast. Bring your own blanket.

So in other words, you were a hobo?

[Anonymous]

He thinks.  :001_tongue:



In my youth, I've hopped non-passenger trains while on the road in central Canada. A total blast. Bring your own blanket.

So in other words, you were a hobo?

Being a hobo is preferable to having a roof over your head in an insane asylum Mr Pizza Face.

[Anonymous]

I am blurt's brother. I am an ugly old senior citizen with a harelip.

[Blurt]

He thinks.  :001_tongue:



In my youth, I've hopped non-passenger trains while on the road in central Canada. A total blast. Bring your own blanket.

So in other words, you were a hobo?

In my youth, sure.



When I was 18, I took a break after high school and travelled around the country for a year or so, hitchhiking mostly, stopping here and there to work at various jobs through labour pool providers.



Once hopped a train from Kenora, Ontario, to Winnipeg. Wound up working on a boxing line in a chemical plant while I was there.



A year later, I hitchhiked my way around Europe for nearly six months, wound up a grape-picker for five weeks or so near Bordeaux. Also picked oranges in Spain.



Time of my life. Although I've travelled across Canada (from St-John's to Victoria) and have been back to Europe many times since, none of those trips managed to recapture the exhilirating freedom of being on the road with no strings attached. Everybody's gotta grow up at some point (even though not everybody does). This being said, even on my many trips to India or to the Caribbean, I've always tried to shake myself loose from planned itineraries or from travel advisories (or from high anxiety travel partners).



So, yeah, I still have a bit of the hobo in me... a very Boho hobo. If I ever went to Moskva, InTourist would not be pleased with me.



Jock, I know train-hopping is illegal (and obviously quite possibly dangerous) but it seems that, back then, security was much slacker and the practice more prevalent (sort of like for hitchhiking now, too). The stories we heard from fellow train-hoppers back then centered mostly around their simply being booted off the train. Nobody we encountered had ever gotten fined. Times change, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Once hopped a train from Kenora, Ontario, to Winnipeg.

Winnipeg-Kenora-Winnipeg is old Jock's run.

[Blurt]

Sweet.



But, man, that was years ago. Jock ain't but a pup.