Hobo Camp

Okay this has little or nothing to do with design or tech but it is kind of modern. Watching Kit Kittredge and I'm thinking about Hobos. Yeah I know strange, but dig this. Hobos were essentially homeless people but they were mobile. Being able to move around, go to another town and find work, living out in the woods by the river.

Well nowadays you can't really jump on a fright train so much and hitchhiking is pretty much out with interstate highways and off ramps. Living off the land by the river well that could be problematic as there isn't a whole lot of uninhabited land hanging around. And taking a drink from the lake might be the same as sipping sewage from a drain pipe.

Well the world is getting smaller and better connected. These are good things but it makes it really difficult to stop a disease or hmmm, I dunno, say a financial melt down.

Well better living through design I say. If we must live in a shelter or lean to let's make it the best darn lean to around.






modern design geek signing off..