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Selling It All and Hitting to Road: Elliott Hester
It's a fantasy many travelers and cube slaves share. You make the decision and bring up Ebay or Craigslist on your
computer screen, then you begin listing nearly every item you own. That big work desk, $40. The big screen TV $250.
Dinner jacket $35…OK, $10…forget it, just take it. The dough comes rolling in, and what is not sold maybe gets brought
to the Salvation Army for both charity and a tax write off. Then it's time to leave. You fill your pack, buy a one way
ticket to wherever, and, man, you're golden. But then, poof, the dream bubble pops and there you are, still anchored to
your desk.
But such was not the case with Elliott Hester. Nope, in the fall of 2002
he set off on an 18-month, around-the-world adventure but rather than book that flight back home to pick up where he
left off, he continued on, traveling, traveling, traveling. He's been on the road ever since.
Hester, the author of a forthcoming book called "Adventures of a Continental Drifter: An Around-the-World Excursion
into Weirdness, Danger, Lust, and the Perils of Street Food", talks about the life of a "continental drifter" in
this article/interview in the SF
Chronicle. He talks about living on the road for over three years and, interestingly, reveals the contents of his
backpack: "a few articles of clothing, toiletries, an iPod, digital camera, cell phone (Elliott, phone
home!), notebook computer, guidebooks". Must be tough to lug around all those gadgets.
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