Ticket.Check.Wallet.Check.Most important thing needed on the whole trip. Check.

Most people are told when to travel, bring this and that. They dont tell you the one thing you need to carry. It's more important than your wallet or your ticket to wherever. It's a pack of smokes, cancer sticks, tobbaco, cigs or whaterver you want to call it. Most people dont realize this, but without smokes you become alone. For example: You go to Colorado on bus. You arrive at Omaha and stop at the bus depot. Those who dont smoke carry their luggage into the building and tend to themselves. Everyone in their eyes is some little shit riding the bus. They dont want to talk to you, so you dont talk to them. Now, the smokers on the other have to find a place where they are as close to depot as possible yet a place where they can smoke. They all congragate together because they need to be as close to the place as possible. Smokers all have one thing they need. Smokes. If you dont have a smoke, you 'bum' a cig from another. Without a doubt mostly anyone who smokes will bum you cig. You already have started the conversation from there. They will also like to talk to you, because they need to have someone listen. You listen to them, they listen to you. Pretty soon you will have become part of (what we call it) the brotherhood. You make think this is bogus, but look around you. Smokers dont usually care who you are or where you came from. They too need someone to communicate. Non smokers have nothing to start a conversation with, nor do they want to. You dont need to smoke to be part of the brotherhood. If you buy a pack of cigs, you can just bum to other people. Through the brotherhood you'll meet people going to Massachusets from California because his wife left him days before they were to get married(not that he cared) and he cant afford to live in his single bedroom $1000/a montha apartment and is sick of living at a homeless shelter. You might even meet a guy who works at gas station and grows shrooms. Or maybe you'll run into a person who went to SD to see sturgis on a three day trip with a friend where he ends up working at Sturgis for a few weeks to get enough money to get a ride back to Minnesota because his buddies car broke down on him. Those might be people you could meet by just having one thing. Smokes. Smokes should be an essential item for each traveler. Not having one, means not having a more potential kick ass trip. Do yourself a favor, buy cigs and bum to others.