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Some other ways to get around for cheap: http://www.vergemagazine.com/travel-intelligence/budget-trav...

I looked into hitching a ride on a C-130... not nearly as free or fun as you might think. You can if you are a journalist (or blogger!) and want to write a positive piece about the military.

In light of this story I will no longer bitch about coach. But travel does suck, and I can't wait for quantum transport to be a thing.



Another way: get a job interview with a company at your desired location. Works best for big cities, like New York City.

If you have moral qualms, only apply at banks. They deserve it.


The only people hurt by that will be the HR workers, who would possibly be fired if too many people did this, or future workers who may not have an opportunity because the bank had been burned too often.

The banks themselves won't even notice it.


Tongue in cheek.


>I looked into hitching a ride on a C-130... not nearly as free or fun as you might think.

Can you elaborate on that at all? The link you posted doesn't mention military hitchhiking, which sounds interesting to say the least.


Before you pursue this further, ask someone who's spent hours sitting in one of the nylon seats on a C-130. Decidedly uncomfortable. Go for a C-5 or C-17 instead.


C-5 will just end up broken down on the runway for days. Take the C-17.


Perhaps they mean commerical C-130s because military C-130s (or any other kind of cargo aircraft) are not available to members of the general public.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-A_travel

Also, I took a trip once in a (military) C-130H. Very loud (we had earplugs though), nylon mesh seating, but I was comfy and I slept or read most of the trip.


Someone I knew had done some advising to a part of the military. He liked to play it up as a a "I could tell you, but i'd have to kill you" kinda deal.

If anyone in the office had been travelling and then complained about their flight he'd say "Be glad it wasn't a C-130!" (or some military plane). I'm sure it would have been more practical to take commercial flights, but he loved the whole faux-spy thing of turning up at military bases and taking non-commercial flights.


If it was really quantum you wouldn't need to travel because you could be everywhere at the same time - although some locations would be much more likely than others.




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