After reading through the Wabash Cannonball thread I started to wonder about the lost lifestyle of a hobo.
Gargoyle had included an excellent posting on 'So Just What Is A Hobo? and The Hobo Heart & Soul
Also after reading Art Thieme talk about the life of Paul Durst, the Wobbly and hobo fiddler who was 93 years and that Art had made tapes of in 1961.
I started wondering what people today do who still believe in living that kind of hobo lifestyle or still share the same core beliefs and views as they say 'the hobo heart & soul'.

In Canada we have social assistance, welfare and unemployment. It appears to me the hobo lifestyle has faded away along with The National Hobo Association.
Or does that association still exist?
Now we have Street Kids who truly need our help.
We have social problems that are very serious issue.
I do not want to give the impression I am promoting poverty, but from what I have read about these hobos, it seemed like there was an adventure to living that independent lifestyle. Then there were others who may not have actually lived the life of a hobo, but identified with it. It seems to me this has been lost in todays society.

I would like to hear from the other Mudcatters on this subject.

Little Neo