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Where I go, there I am.

I live nowhere. My home is built of blacktop. I can't stop moving... because the trouble never ends. I've given up on things ever being different. This is my life until my death.
Johnathon Blaze, aka Ghost Rider

"Well she moved down here, age of eighteen,
She blew the boys away, was more than they'd seen
I was introduced and we both started grooving.
She said, I dig you baby but I've got to keep moving
on, keep moving on."
Tom Petty, "Mary Jane's Last Dance"

Arrive. Raise Hell. Leave.

"Going down that long lonesome highway
Bound for the mountains and the plains.
Sure ain't nothing here gonna tie me
And I got some friends I'd like to see.
One of these days I'm gonna settle down,
But till I do, I won't be hanging round
Going down that long lonesome highway
Gonna live life my way
Closing Theme, Then Came Bronson

She's running to be running
Cause it's all she knows to do
She's a tumbleweed rolling
A river running wild
A hurricane blowing...
— "Natural Disaster" by Zac Brown Band

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide country that I love...
Bing Crosby, "Don't Fence Me In"

Vincent: What do you mean, walk the Earth?
Jules: You know, like Caine in Kung Fu. Just walk from town to town, meet people, get in adventures.
Vincent: How long do you intend to walk the earth?
Jules: Until God puts me where he want me to be.
Vincent: What if he never does?
Jules: If it takes forever, I'll wait forever.
Vincent: So you decided to be a bum?
Jules: I'll just be Jules, Vincent — no more, no less.
Vincent: No, Jules, you're gonna be like those pieces of shit out there who beg for change. They walk around like a bunch of fucking zombies, they sleep in garbage bins, they eat what I throw away, and dogs piss on 'em. They got a word for 'em, they’re called bums. And without a job, residence, or legal tender, that's what you're gonna be — a fuckin' bum!

"We don't live scared in some tiny home surrounded by a whore fence, dig. We ain't got no roots and that's the way we like it, man. We're free, free to bang life in the ass. We're the future."
Jett, Dear God No!

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