Starting the Snowball

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Starting the Snowball
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Bangkok, Thailand Southeast Asia
Andy of HoboTraveler.com

Pack together some wet snow, pack here, pack there, dream of something, resume packing, lie the snowball on the grown, semi-push down and start to roll. Slowly it starts to pick up the conquered snow under its path and grows, a snowball too big to push alone has started. Stop, look around, pat you mitten together, hug yourself, take a bite of snow and scream for your best friends,
- Come help me push this snowball down the hill!-

Nothing compares to having the dead end gang working to roll up American dreams, life in rural Indiana, and they call me a Hoosier.

Today, Andy, a.k.a. Me and Andrew boy Genius from India had a mutual moment, I am here in Bangkok, he is Goa, India, we are chatting away on our project, and I say,
- We got the small snowball moving! -
He pauses on chat, the chats,
- I can feel it! -

Worlds apart, connected by Yahoo Messenger, from this way, and that way on the planet, we have been trying to start a snowball moving down the hill, and what a big snowball.

I have many lives, Andy off to Africa, Andy lying on the beach, Andy bailing Hay in Indiana, Andy going to Iraq to see what my country is doing. I am not just Andy Travel Journalger, I am what I want to be, not what anybody else wants to be. I am the little boy pushing the snowball as a child, stopping to dream, something my parents put in my eye makes me see big, to
- Live a life less normal ! -

Today October 2, 2007 I can feel me and Boy Genius from India’s efforts feeling some pride in our work. We bang away, plug, push, kick, think, make all the wrong moves, he says left, I say right, we are on the same page, but all are scribbles.

We have been working on HoboHideOut.com together for about 2 years. I have been contemplating my navel for about 5 years, trying to put an idea into action. There is no amount of money a person could pay me to work on this project, I do it on faith, I think I can make a big snowball on the internet.

HoboTraveler.com is a site a person dream about owning, a home on the internet, a place for a Hobo brain, a young man that made snowmen in rural Indiana and hoped they would never melt.

Now, I can feel it, we are going to warp speed, beam me up Scotty, and engage.
I am excited, life is good, and my battery is recharging, all the emotional vampire activity of traveling in Africa is left in Africa, I am now in Dreamland.

Dreams are real, they are the kinder used, to take boys and make into men, then allow the man to become a boy again. I never wanted to grow up, just cannot find how to hedge my bets by growing up, like asking to be boring.

I have work on HoboHideOut.com in my dreams, making lines on a page, clicking a mouse in my hand, clicking on this benefit, these options and trying to give the world a great way to travel the planet. It feels great to make my ideal dream of a hotel site, maybe I can stop the ludicrous wave of money hungry pages that just inflate the cost of travel, travel is cheap, it is not expensive, the shell game on the internet is like a leper, it feels like the internet some days is being lost to the boys in suits, those soulless sorts who cannot wonder or wander planet, taking all the dreams out of travel, and handing you an itinerary when you kept telling me you wanted to be free, they you pay for a boss.
http://www.hobohideout.com

Starting the Snowball

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goingeverywhereslow said on Wednesday October 3rd, 2007 03:41:00 PM

Andy,Re: hobohideout.comI love the fact that you immediately see the room price BEFORE you think of going deeper in the site.Having a "no mans land" section is also great. Maybe you can dedicate that section to Mehran Karimi Nasseri who was apparently stuck in Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years.Wishing your snowball all the best as it rolls.Eric

Andy HoboTraveler.com said on Wednesday October 3rd, 2007 07:09:00 PM

We will make that even more transparent soon as I sit here in Bangkok and keep pushing the techie in India to make what I want. I want to be able to click down to the small district or easily defined are on the planet and a be able to print out easily all the Hotels of any type, with address, price, email, etc.I could for example take this around on Khao San Road and look at the hotels.The option to say, hotel starting from x to x price. This will include any type of lodging.

Wade said on Friday October 5th, 2007 08:32:00 AM

Great to hear that you are in high spirits again, friend. I look forward to the Hobohideout page and hope that it nets you enough cash that you can buy a ship and we can sail around and see a little of the watery parts of the world haha. I will be your first mate. haha!Walk Slow, Wade from Song of the Open Road travelogue

Andy HoboTraveler.com said on Friday October 5th, 2007 09:13:00 AM

It would be a dream come true to have a really HUGE Sailboat, Crusing ships with tons of dinghies. We could pull into some harbour and get picked up on the other side of our dreams.Bikinis!Life is Good.I semi-stop doing the math as the site is so large in size, and the potential is unlimited.