# goodbye **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2000, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye/31437 "2000-08-31T03:25:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tisme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Tisme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tisme)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye/31437/21 "2000-09-03T02:51:22Z")
Good luck to you eggo. But just curious, why close your bank accounts? What are you going to do for money? Carry it all with you or just rack it up on credit? ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye/31437/22 "2000-09-03T02:52:27Z")
Eggo, I hope you will post here lots so we will know you are safe. Are you traveling by yourself? Are your parents worried? [My oldest daughter, Angie Gailbird, just started posting here yesterday. If she finds out I posted this, she may give me a lecture about being overly protective.] ---
**Author:** ![dewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@dewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dewt)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye/31437/23 "2000-09-03T21:52:42Z")
may the wind rise at your back the road rise to meet your feet may your thumb be long and persuasive may… uh… the rain fall when you’re inside… uh… may uh… You be safe and have fun, get dirty and learn stuff. Wear sunscreen. ---
**Author:** ![eggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@eggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eggo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye/31437/24 "2000-09-03T22:25:33Z")
Day 3: I’m in Atlanta standing at a payphone, just thought I’d check up on you guys. I’m having the time of my life, I’ve met some great people, slept under a bridge in Nashville, hopped on a freight train–and got thrown off. (almost got arrested–fat cop: slow cop.) Hitchhiking is harder than it looks, no one wants to pick up strangers anymore… I’m headed toward NYC next, it’ll probably take me a few days to get there, I’ll give you another update then. **Tisme** , yes i’m lugging it all with me. (I currently own only three things that are not on my back–one of them is this laptop). I like the whole severing ties thing. **Spider Woman** yes, on both counts. I’m traveling by myself, because no one wanted to quit their job to come with me. My mom is **very** worried, I have to call her every day or she is going to assume the worst–I understand though, I’m still her “wittle baby”… no serial killers yet, but i did meet another guy that is doing the same thing I am (though he’s doing it for religous reasons), he’s been drifting for 6 months. we talked, we had fun, and we parted ways. Grand adventure. eggo ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye/31437/25 "2000-09-03T22:30:10Z")
glad you are safe and I hope you will keep checking in and posting. Did you ever hear anything from the ACLU, or is that pretty much a dead issue? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye/31437.md?page=1)