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posted by CoolHand on Monday August 24 2015, @09:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the hobo-life dept.

When others get off the train to finally go home, Leonie Müller stays behind. That's because she already is home: The train is her apartment, and she says she likes it that way.

The German college student gave up her apartment in spring. "It all started with a dispute I had with my landlord," Müller told The Washington Post via e-mail. "I instantly decided I didn't want to live there anymore — and then I realized: Actually, I didn't want to live anywhere anymore."

Instead, she bought a subscription that allows her to board every train in the country for free. Now, Müller washes her hair in the train bathroom and writes her college papers while traveling at a speed of up to 190 mph. She says that she enjoys the liberty she has experienced since she gave up her apartment. "I really feel at home on trains, and can visit so many more friends and cities. It's like being on vacation all the time," Müller said.

Agatha Christie wrote a lot of her stories while travelling. DH Lawrence and Hemingway also. Would your work, creativity, and lifestyle mesh well with a life of permanent travel, like the girl from the article?


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 24 2015, @09:46PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 24 2015, @09:46PM (#227251)

    Ah now I remember it.

    The David Louis Edelman Jump 225 trilogy, aka "infoquake" "multireal" and "Geosynchron"

    I don't want to spoiler it too much but the guy pretty much crosses modern IT concepts with hard sci fi and lets see what happens, at least in the first two books. I liked the first two books, the third not too much.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by VLM on Monday August 24 2015, @09:47PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 24 2015, @09:47PM (#227252)

    Oh yeah, the point. Yes the point ... is Natch (the main character) liked to chill out and sleep on high speed trains. It was kind of his form of recreation.