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Lume shot of a Rolex Submariner and a Seiko Sea Urchin. I spent some time customizing that Seiko auto into a classy(ish) / survival(ish) timepiece and it came out nice but after I put it on for the first time, I thought, “wait, I got a Rolex that this watch was copied off of, f*ck this.” It’s still a great mechanical timepiece though, I highly recommend it for the money.
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As an experienced world traveling vagabond and a zombie film / comic / video game / TV aficionado, that may very well make me a potentially thriving survivor for when this apocalypse does happen.
Vagabonds Are Mobile And Mimimalists
In many zombie movies, the survivors all carry a backpack holding their only possessions but living efficiently with next to nothing.
This is logical in any apocalypse but the fact remains that vagabonds and backpackers are experts and masters of “living out of a backpack” due to experience and expected (and unexpected) circumstances.
But this is particularly true in a zombie invasion as you have to constantly move around, like a backpacker.
In a zombie apocalypse, supplies will be scarce and everyone will have will be forced to live with only the absolute essentials with no luxuries. Basically, a minimalist. Or simply, a vagabond.
Vagabonds Can Explore And Sleep Anywhere
It takes most freshman backpackers and starting world travelers a bit of getting used to but once you start “living” and sleeping in cramped hostels, grimy guesthouses, strangers’ couches couchsurfing, beautiful beaches or anywhere with a roof.
The term “vagabond” was originally used as “drifter” which is exactly what you’ll have to be with a zombie apocalypse – traveling and finding a new place call “home” all the time, this is vagabonding.
A vagabond’s purpose is to explore and dwell anywhere. Which is what everyone will need to get used to with the oncoming zombie apocalypse.
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“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” –
PRE-DEPARTURE MINIMIZATIONS //
Vagabonding is a nomadic form of minimalism, you can’t be a vagabond without being a minimalist. This is a primary prerequisite of this type of location independent lifestyle.
The act of vagabonding starts long before departure with the personal reduction of “needs” and “wants”.
Living in a big house in the suburbs or a tiny apartment in the city, you look around and feel all these “requirements” of living piling up with “luxuries” to enjoy itching at you.
There’s something about living a stationery life that keeps broadening your wants and needs more and more.
This all changes when your life becomes completely mobile, living out of a backpack with exactly just what you need and no non-sense wants. Because you have to.
But this begins before you start vagabonding by cutting out unnecessary and no longer needed factors out of your life. I’m not being metaphorical, but literal.
As a vagabond, you no longer need cable TV, home internet, Netflix, phone, household utilities, magazines, cars and other contractual or commitment obligations that reduce your finances on a fixed schedule.
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Depending on where I’m going, how I’m getting there, how long I’m staying and why I’m going to my next destination, the packing kits (luggage) I bring with me will vary.
At most my entire kit includes; backpack, duffle bag and mobility pack (pictured below). But mostly, it is my backpack and mobility pack. However, sometimes I leave my backpack at a place I plan on returning to shortly and will travel or trek with just the mobility pack.
So the mobility pack is always one of my luggage kits. This doesn’t mean it’s always on my person, but the 1 bag (of my usual 3) that I always travel with – my go-to carry-on.
However, this kind of pack for this purpose is widely available, it just has to suit your preferences and needs. To me, a “mobility pack” is the answer to needing to carry additional gear that won’t fit in my clothing pockets but not enough gear to warrant a daypack.
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Vagabonding is a minimalistic lifestyle.
Living and traveling the world effectively with just the contents of our backpacks. Carrying, buying and using just what we need with complete satisfaction and elegant efficiency.
Minimal + Mobile = Vagabond
Living a minimalist life may mean less “things”, frugality and active moderation but its actually a way to get more out of life…
…particularly while vagabonding.
The purpose of a minimalistic lifestyle is simply to live with less or specifically what’s needed without losing out on what “normal” life has to offer. As a vagabond living out of a backpack traveling the world, minimalism is not only second nature but a necessity.
A minimal life can equal a mosaic life through vagabonding.
The concept of vagabonding is to constantly travel from one place to another as a means to explore – as a lifestyle. As this goes hand in hand with a minimal lifestyle, the natural merge makes the experience and rewards for each method incomparable to anything else.
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