Thanks Vega for the kind thoughts.
But I still have to wonder about your username.
From wikipedia:
A
vagabond is an
itinerant person. Such people may be called
tramps,
rogues, or
hobos. A vagabond is characterised by almost continuous travelling, lacking a fixed
home, temporary
abode, or
permanent residence. Vagabonds are not
bums, as bums are not known for travelling, preferring to stay in one location.
Historically, "vagabond" was a
British legal term similar to
vagrant, deriving from the
Latin for 'purposeless wandering'.
[1] Following the
Peasants' Revolt, British
constables were
authorised under a 1383 statute to collar vagabonds and force them to show their means of support; if they could not, the penalty was
gaol.
[1] Under a 1495 statute, vagabonds could be sentenced to the
stocks for three days and nights; in 1530,
whipping was added. The assumption was that vagabonds were unlicensed
beggars.
[1]
By the 19th century the vagabond was associated more closely with
Bohemianism. The critic Arthur Compton-Rickett compiled a review of the type, in which he defined it as men "with a vagrant strain in the blood, a natural inquisitiveness about the world beyond their doors." Examples included
Henry David Thoreau,
Walt Whitman,
William Hazlitt, and
Thomas de Quincey.
[2] A notable 20th century vagabond was the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös.
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