DISQUS

I wonder what it looked like to walk by the wall every day. Seeing it evolve in pieces would be almost as fascinating as seeing the whole.

It just goes to show that smoking is evil, and cigarettes are tools of the devil.

I honestly hope you're right. I'd love nothing more then for the people i met to not be a representative of the whole, and for the hostility I've heard from other places to be misguided.

I tend to place more loyalty on the people who do these kind of trips for the adventure and the learning, than for the spectacle and the novelty. Perhaps I'm the elitist.

As cool as the concept of Miss Rockaway seems at first, the kids on it are elitist jerks. they stole their concept from a bunch of for real boat punks who have lived on the river for well over five years. By being rich kids the armada could play at disrespect with their parents money. they could afford to get the media attention while patronizing the hell out of the people in the towns they came to.

The actual boat punks who were respectful and doing it out of love as opposed to novelty went down the river a few weeks after the Rockaway and were turned away at every port because the Rockaways kids were loud, obnoxious, stole things and in general made themselves unwelcome.

Some people didn't learn the part of kindergarten where being a jerk ruined things for the whole class.

The guy in the gold shirt is my friend Lawrence, and the girl with the white dog is Ellie from Oklahoma. She slept on my floor for two days, fixed my doorbell and made some kickass gumbo. It's wierd to see them in that sort of frame.

What confuses me is how the assumption of drugs appears in all of the comments. Most hobos i know are decent alcoholics, but don't touch much else.