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Graffiti under a bridge where Hobo wait to jump illegaly on trains. Hopping freight train near Milwauke with 43 year old Hobo names Stretch. ..Life of a Hobo nicknamed Stretch. Stretch was elected Hobo King in 2009, at the National Hobo convention. A Hobo is a term which is applied to a migratory worker or homeless vagabond, often penniless. Hobos move around the country, looking for work by hopping illegally on freight trains, which can be a dangerous enterprise. Modern freight trains are much faster and harder to ride than in the 1930s, but can still be boarded in railyards..The first and most important rule of the hobo code is 'decide your own life', which meant 'do what you want to do'...A 4-weeks road trip across the USA, from New York to San Francisco, on the steps of Jack Kerouac’s famous book “On the Road”. Focusing on nomadic America: people that live on the move across the US, out of ideology or for work reasons.

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Graffiti under a bridge where Hobo wait to jump illegaly on trains. Hopping freight train near Milwauke with 43 year old Hobo names Stretch. ..Life of a Hobo nicknamed Stretch. Stretch was elected Hobo King in 2009, at the National Hobo convention. A Hobo is a term which is applied to a migratory worker or homeless vagabond, often penniless. Hobos move around the country, looking for work by hopping illegally on freight trains, which can be a dangerous enterprise. Modern freight trains are much faster and harder to ride than in the 1930s, but can still be boarded in railyards..The first and most important rule of the hobo code is 'decide your own life', which meant 'do what you want to do'...A 4-weeks road trip across the USA, from New York to San Francisco, on the steps of Jack Kerouac’s famous book “On the Road”. Focusing on nomadic America: people that live on the move across the US, out of ideology or for work reasons.