'Traveling kids' in a boxcar, riding from Chicago, Illinois to St Paul, Minnesota.
Today, ‘traveling kids’ — communities of young nomadic individuals — cross the US by hopping freight trains and hitchhiking for months or years at a time.
Nowadays, living free in America is not as challenging by historical vagrant standards. Traveling kids live off the waste and kindness of American society and hail from a variety of backgrounds.
Many are runaways, living nomadically out of necessity, while others are born middle class, but have rebelled against life’s expectations.
'Traveling kids' in a boxcar, riding from Chicago, Illinois to St Paul, Minnesota.
Vagrancy, the phenomenon of nomadic outcasts, is not a new story. For one-and-a-half centuries, hobos living beyond the traditional American Dream have traversed the American landscape, in hope of finding work, adventure, and freedom.
Today, ‘traveling kids’ — communities of young nomadic individuals — cross the US by hopping freight trains and hitchhiking for months or years at a time.
Nowadays, living free in America is not as challenging by historical vagrant standards. Traveling kids live off the waste and kindness of American society and hail from a variety of backgrounds.
Many are runaways, living nomadically out of necessity, while others are born middle class, but have rebelled against life’s expectations.
YOUNG AMERICAN NOMADS: NOMANDIA
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