![]() Like the tiny-housed, they live off the grid and on propane tanks and oddball toilets. The vagabond crowd disdains humongous ready-to-roll RVs, preferring DYI makeovers of school buses, city buses and box trucks. ![]() Young Americans, maybe fans of the Brit, poke through abandoned mental hospitals, prisons, and the most unsettling - shopping mallsĪs I suspected, you can find anything on YouTube, so I searched the first goofy thing that came to mind, and there it was: kumquats. The comings and goings of the dinky Shelter Island, N.Y., ferriesĬomedians Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Ricky Gervais and Señor WencesĪn Englishman who speaks Russian roam the former USSR’s ragged villages and old buildings, downing moonshine with babushkas (grannies) and vodka with a widower near Chernobyl Tiny-house owners many of whom seem to be young women, though an older Earth mother built a "Hobbit Hut" in Wales with a roof buried under foliage CaleĪn amiable English chap chugging along the UK's canals on a narrowboat Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the "Godmother of Rock & Roll," and C&W singer J.J. #Stobe the hobo how to#They're in every railway station, aboard every ferry afloat, scaling skyscrapers, jumping off cliffs, showing us how to fix baseboards, and teaching us Chinese or the piano we can speak or play in minutes!Ī train geek who rigs up his Amtrak roomette with Go-Pro, GPS, maps, laptop, and walkie-talkie to follow railroad chatterĪ Canadian in charming, downtown North KoreaĪ Russian college student who spent a year in the U.S., and now because of Ukraine, will leave her homelandįrench chefs cooking, and Parisians trying to pronounce English words like "Massachusetts" Over 50 million of them around the world are uploading 500 hours of video every minute. YouTubers are clogging the globe, GoPro cameras at arm’s length, seemingly talking to themselves, and imploring us to hit "Like" and ring bells. ![]() When reeling from the fulminations, machinations and recriminations of Donald Trump, I sometimes joined him and other vagabonds, tiny-house dwellers, country singers and TED talkers coming to me from YouTube's endless sweep. He backed it up with his tinkly, rambling piano. And many of these people want to take their jobs on the road, not necessarily full-time like I did, but for a few months or even a year at a time.Some 11,000 viewers, occasionally including me - paltry compared to some YouTube superstars - followed James Stobie and his risky, and illegal, train hopping. The pandemic created millions of remote workers. Hobo Stobe was making plans to launch his Stobe Attack channel with daily content including, commentary, current events, music and jokes to create a show that he originally wanted to be a radio show and to fill the void between train adventures. I do this with instructional and inspirational content on this site, my video interview series, personal consulting services, online courses and workshops, books, and speaking. He played all the piano background music for his YouTube videos. Now, I give people confidence to travel long-term, knowing they’ve set everything up in the best possible way (which I help with). Stick around, and I can show you the secrets to redesigning your life so you can travel full-time in a financially stainable way yourself. #Stobe the hobo professional#I’m not just a homeless person….I add a professional edge to my homelessness. See? This is why I’m The Professional Hobo. Ever the financial planner, I kept track of my income and expenses meticulously along the way, and I published them every year for 10 years, so you can see for yourself that full-time travel can be totally financially sustainable. Then I parlayed my expertise as a former Certified Financial Planner into my current career as a writer, and my current lifestyle as a world-adventurer. On November 9, 2017, James Stobie, better known by his YouTube identity Stobe the Hobo, a famous train hopper was killed when he was dragged to death by an Amtrak train. And while I was getting my online career off the ground, I figured out how to make my money go as far as possible, with travel techniques that don’t sacrifice on style but save a bundle. See, early on I figured out how to make a living while I travel so I could continue to travel indefinitely. This website is not only about my (mis)adventures around the world (though you’ll get lots of that, along with some fun videos) it’s also about how to travel full-time in a financially sustainable way. Since getting a home base in Toronto in 2018, I continue to travel as and when I want, for weeks to months at a time, several times a year. ![]() But I made a pretty good go of it, traveling full-time for 12+ years. I had no idea where I’d go, how long the trip would last, or how I’d make money. So much so, in fact, that I sold everything I owned in 2006 to embrace my lifelong dreams of long-term travel. ![]()
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