The trick to feeling safe anywhere is to always feel at home inside your body. Wherever you go, you bring your home with you.

Realizing this when you are scared and in unfamiliar surroundings is the trick. I still need to latch on to things familiar: the trendy, hip, young part of town, a used book store, a coffee shop, the railroad yards.

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I hop because it's fun. As Duffy Littlejohn, train-hopper and trial lawyer, said, "It's a kick in the ass, the last red-blooded American adventure." I have the money to travel more comfortably now, but I prefer the real thing. Undiluted experience. The wind in my hair. The freedom of spontaneous adventure.

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