User:OllieMonaghan

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About Me

I'm currently a student, living in South-East London, New Cross. Studying English & American Literature at Goldsmiths University. If you're travellin' thro, come say hello !

Travels

I caught the hitchin' bug when I read Jack Keroauc's On the Road age fifteen, three years later I was standing on the on ramp to the M11 going up to Cambridge. That trip me and my companion went thro Cambridge, Liverpool, Leeds, two days in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, then Glasgow for a while then onto Edinburgh.

The more formulative experience was hitchiking back to London from a week in Falmouth, Cornwall, only two days hitchiking but I had no money, no cellphone, not even any cigarettes ... slept rough in fields and had worn the same clothes for a week. Freedom of poverty and movement eh ?

This Summer I travelled the United States, NYC to LA, Down from New York to New Orleans, then across to Albuquerque, Up to Seattle via Denver and a long while in the beautiful Wyoming, from Seattle down to Portland, Portland to Reno via the most crazy twisting route thro North California, then I went to Burning Man, ah Burning Man, afterwards onto San Fran via Lake Tahoe and Yosemite National Park, finally LA. I hitchiked about half my miles, the rest on the greyhound bus. I'll be goin' back to those blue highways soon enough ...