{"id":520,"date":"2013-07-10T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:33:13","slug":"520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Hitchhiking vignettes: &#8220;I just don&#8217;t like to work&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I don&#039;t like to work, I like to ride\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qHacVRBYPZY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_7161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"537\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/?attachment_id=537\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_7161.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2816,2112\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon DIGITAL IXUS 60&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1373027401&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.8&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_7161\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_7161.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_7161.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-537\" src=\"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_7161.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7161\" width=\"2816\" height=\"2112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Tanzman doesn&#8217;t like to work so he loads up and gets ready to ride the Alaska Highway out of Otter Falls Cut-Off, Yukon Territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cIf you don&#8217;t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won&#8217;t have to work.\u201d &#8211; Ogden Nash <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mild-mannered Brian Tanzman works in San Diego as an auditor the first three months of every year.<\/p>\n<p>Then he puts down his pocket protector and calculator and goes traveling the other nine months. On his current adventure, he&#8217;s riding from Anchorage to Glacier National Park, Montana.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been following the same seasonal pattern for 10 years, racking up an impressive list of adventures including kayaking with the help of <a href=\"https:\/\/campingfunzone.com\/2019\/08\/23\/12-things-to-know-about-kayaking-before-hitting-the-water\/\">campingfunzone.com<\/a> the Mississippi River and walking the Appalachian Trail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People in real life think I&#8217;m totally crazy but the people I meet on the road think I&#8217;m totally normal,&#8221; said Tanzman, at Otter Falls Cut-Off, in the Yukon. &#8220;Of everyone I meet, I&#8217;m going the shortest distance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I met him hitchhiking my way from Chicago to Anchorage, to join a carnival. I was at the gas station\/restaurant there and saw him with his packs. I&#8217;ve ridden my bicycle on three cross-country trips so I was interested in his fully-packed bicycle parked outside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I met a couple who are legally blind and they&#8217;re bicycling to the tip of South America from here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I want to cycle the length of South America. I want to see the Andes. I&#8217;m going to have to learn some Spanish first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He intends to travel the world on his three month salary for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Expenses are minimal, he says. He pays for food but camps outside. He pays for a storage locker in San Diego, health insurance, cell phone service and that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just don&#8217;t like to work,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I haven&#8217;t been eaten by a bear like all the locals said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Tanzman doesn&#8217;t like to work so he loads up and gets ready to ride the Alaska Highway out of Otter Falls Cut-Off, Yukon Territory. \u201cIf you don&#8217;t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won&#8217;t have to work.\u201d &#8211; Ogden Nash Mild-mannered Brian Tanzman works in San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4qqmC-520","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}