tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8218901866257821158.post678752545960093494..comments2023-11-25T15:57:59.128-08:00Comments on Cynical Reflections: thoughts from a tub: A Philosophy of Tramping — Wonderings 1Enhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17395463875119977302noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8218901866257821158.post-65304588403239117592014-07-23T01:55:30.528-07:002014-07-23T01:55:30.528-07:00When it comes to women tramps in the strictest sen...When it comes to women tramps in the strictest sense, I don't know of any. But as for women travelers who dispossessed themselves of the mainstream and spent their life wandering, I'd recommend checking out Isabelle Eberhardt. Fascinating women who lived and died in the early 20th century.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8218901866257821158.post-58946645337125574422014-02-25T10:11:49.750-08:002014-02-25T10:11:49.750-08:00DRIFTER, BY JIM PHELAN
Myself, when a boy, was a ...DRIFTER, BY JIM PHELAN<br /><br />Myself, when a boy, was a failure at home,<br />For I always felt wishful to ramble and roam<br />While my family said I was fickle as foam<br />And rebuked me in dignified high tones..<br />My duty in life, very plainly they showed,<br />And good moral advice day and night they bestowed, <br />But in spite of it all, I set out on the road <br />And I went along, counting the milestones.<br /><br />My friends all declared I should ramble no more,<br />For I’d meet a bad end on a faraway shore,<br />Or I’d wander and die on some desolate moor<br />Where the crows would come picking my white bones.<br />To comfort I’d come, in the towns I was told;<br />A fine job and big money to have and to hold,<br />Or to find me a wife who’d have silver and gold,<br />But I’d rather go counting the milestones.<br /><br />With nothing to buy and nothing to sell,<br />That I roam far and near you can easily tell,<br />And the good people everywhere taught me right well,<br />That all drifters and vagrants were vile drones.<br />Each sensible citizen keeps to a base,<br />And I realise well it should be my own case<br />To reside in a home, and to stay in one place<br />……..but I laugh while I’m counting the milestones.<br />lesjsinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06167525134933496622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8218901866257821158.post-49976080999654360302014-02-24T10:05:32.546-08:002014-02-24T10:05:32.546-08:00Jim Phelan was my grandfather. See this link; http...Jim Phelan was my grandfather. See this link; http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00h0p0mlesjsinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06167525134933496622noreply@blogger.com