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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 2931677" data-attributes="member: 34175">No, while tramping may be glorified, it is illeagal and VERY dangerous.While I was in Europe I loved the ease of travel between countries adn longed for something similar ere in the States, until I realized that the whole of Europe is still smaller than the continental US.  One of the things that the Army did with Nazi prisoners in WWII was to put them on trains to POW camps in the midwest.  The sheer size of the country and the lack of wall to wall people was the biggest demoralizing factor to POWs.One of the things I hated about Europe is that people are stacked six deep, you can't really travel 100 miles in a straight line without running into civilization - it inot only possible if you are traveling from east to west or vice versa in the US, it is an absolute.  especially in the midwest.Basically, if you don't have a travel itenerary you will end up wasting a lot of time with unneccessary travel.  I suggest getting a travel agency and hitting all the places you want with a well thought out schedule.</blockquote>