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That's actually what I like about your bait idea, the fact that slim jimbs have that "plasticky" type of layer that will hold everything together. Otherwise, if you have bait that won't stay on your line, you can ball it up inside of some thin cloth (t-shirt, pantyhose, etc), then knot it...

Screwdriver for rod? Slim Jims for bait? This guy is a confirmed HOBO fisherman. Pretty cool techniques.

The website is a work in progress. We switched domains and hosts this month from one host to another, and it was a difficult process for me to figure out since I'm not a web designer or very knowedgable about the whole domain transfer. Our main web designer left the bus because his visa ran out...

On another note, I have addressed some of your major concerns on a different post: https://www.reddit.com/r/vagabond/comments/4cn9ep/lets_address_a_few_of_the_recent_concerns/

You have got to be either blind or joking. Are you serious? Dude, google our name. Go to our instagram, go to our subreddit, go to our facebook. I'm not trying to sound condescending, but I'm seriously starting to question your ability to use the internet and google our name. We have tons of...

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Ok Matt arguing you is obviously pointless. First its our fault for not publicizing our volunteer work, and I show you over a dozen media links from newspapers and radio stations that talk specifically about all of our volunteer projects. I googled our name The Vagabus (basic beginners...

What the hell? Most of those pictures are on our subreddit, our facebook, our instagram, and our subreddit. Our website and instagram address is freeaking PAINTED on the side of our bus. If you havent seen pictures of us working, and cant bother to research us by googling our name or our...

It's up to ME to prove to YOU that we are volunteering? That's hilarious Matt, and utterly wrong. If you are going to make a huge blog post that makes wild assumptions about our group in the form of criticism, it is YOUR JOB to research us before you start saying things that are false and...

Ok this is a bit absurd, if not slanderous. Hope this post doesn't get deleted, but if someone is going to slander our name on a public forum, we have the right to respond. Let's start with the fact that you are basing a majority of your assumptions and accusations from an article written by...

If you're going to be living outdoors, you HAVE to get out of the southeastern states (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana) during the Spring and Summer if you want to escape bugs and critters. There's simply no way around it, especially the ticks and snakes. That's why most of us...

Where do you recommend? I used Mega previously but it requires people to download the app when downloading it on mobile devices

I've been collaborating with members of r/Vagabond, and we've come up with the idea to hitchhike from Alaska to Argentina. However, what started out as a plan for a 2-3 person trip, quickly evolved into TONS of people wanting to join us! So hey, why limit ourselves, right? Let's all join...

I saw this TIL on Reddit too actually..amazing article behind it.

@Matt Derrick I need to actually update the link that is on this post. I compressed the file from 725mb to 325mb for easier downloading. I also optmized the PDF's and made all of them text-searchable, including the maps. Is there anywhere I can post a link to it or upload the file to STP?

Only $150? The trailer alone is worth that.

WTF did I just read. Alright, well that's enough internet for me tonight. Just gonna pack it up and head on out of here, guys. *jumps through the nearest window*

Marketing gold. If you ever decided to sell-out like others, you'd have a pretty bright future in ad-marketing.

I could see Steele Reserve 211 or GPC Tobacco sponsoring some crusties...that would be interesting to see.

@Viking_Adventurer He's a corporate backpacker, and he'll never realize what it's like actually like living on the road with "little or no money". However, he will reap a shitload of money from pretending to know, and then further profit by spreading his bullshit to a bunch of wanderlusting...

Tomislav, you have such beautiful marketing skills to cover up all of the holes in your story, along with elaborate explanations of everything else. Well done. Well, fucking, done. I applaud you. However, while you claim to be giving honest speeches and writing unbiased blog stories to...

Although I'm not writing this as a "recommendation", I will say this: I've been busted nearly a dozen times for fishing without a license. Bellingham, Washington...Laramie, Wyoming...Littleton, Colorado...Lawrence, Kansas....Ketchikan, Alaska, just to name just a few of the places I've been...

I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! I had this exact same problem with my Dickies bibs that I got 2 months ago. It drove me absolutely fucking crazy. I extended the shoulder strap as long as they could go, but it still rode my crotch. I fixed this by extending my straps using carabiners...

Personally, I wouldn't. Alot of scumfucks would definitely do it for the booze and tobacco though. You should call American Spirit. I personally don't use food stamps or welfare, but I dont think that's quite equal to selling out to a corporation for marketing a product. There's alot of people...

Tomislav, don't nitpick quotes and leave out the other half of my messages, and then pretend that you are dealing with "facts" This is the screenshot of me telling you in the ban message one of the reasons I was banning your account. You then created another account, and continued to post after...

Bottle reels are pretty cool also. Not the best video but the guy gets the point across. You can use plastic bottles also.

I mentioned you here because you deserved to be exposed to a community of real travelers, not just Redditors. That's fairly simple to understand, and this is the THIRD time I have explained it to you. Tomislav, you were banned from r/Vagabond because you accused hitchhikers and backpackers that...

Or he could just stop being paid by a corrupt financial institution. He even admitted earlier that Mastercard is an evil corporation, and then he goes on to say that he has no regrets working for them. I can understand someone that is working in an office and they are stuck working for a...

Tomislav, you are in this life lifestyle for ONE purpose: $$$. That's how it started, that's how it continued to evolve, and that's exactly what it still is to this day: Escapism and Profiteering at every corner/angle you can find it. When you put on that Mastercard shirt, and then later...

I have now informed Tomislav to get off Reddit and face this challenge to a community of real vagabonds. Get ready, STP: "Dear Tomislav, I figured there would be a well organized list of bullshit judtifications and elaborated excuses, as I predicted here[1] while I was explaining this fraud to...

MASTERCARD VAGABOND REPLIES! Here is his reply: Hi - Tomislav Perko here. There's a lot of work here, so lets start with some simple true/false points, later I will explain in details: I was a stock broker who convinced his friends/family into bad investment and at the end of it all, owed...

I read that entire comment in one quickly voiced impersonation of Early Cuyler Squidbilly that was high as shit on tweak. This, this is the power of commas, people, or the lack thereof. This. Anyway, heading from Western Kentucky to Arkansas is like going from worse to worst. But hey, all hail...

THAT'S a travel article that should be publicized by Vice or Newsweek. Unfortunately, that is going to be a hugely "unpopular opinion" that the mainstream media is going to conveniently ignore. But I do agree, this guerilla-corporate form of pyramid-schemed blogging is the BIGGEST problem when...

I'm currently summoning his username and taking him to Vagabond court. He is being charged with 1 count of "Impersonating a Vagabond" This is his official court summons. I also sent him a direct inbox message informing him of his right to defend himself. This should be fun. COURT SUMMONS...

I left a comment on his blog also. Thanks for calling him out on his own blog, that was epic. I can just imagine his face when he reads that shit...he is going to shit a brick. However, he can't delete this article from stp, or the article I put on my forum, and I have a feeling the combination...

@Matt Derrick I'd support travel blogs by real vagabonds. I love reading that stuff. I'm just tired of all these "Backpacking through Thailand/Costa Rica/Morocco blogs. Jeez, there's like 100,000 of them, and 90% of them are full of shit just like Tomislavs blog.

He claims he needed the $12,000 for translating and publishing the book. Considering his "investment" history, it's a plausible assumption that Tomislav pocketed a majority of that money, using only a fraction of it to publish just enough copies of the book to please his investors..

Watch first: I hate to be the one to do this, but I have to call bullshit on Tomislav Perko, and I'll explain why. I've read alot of his articles and interviews in the past, and this TEDx Talk is the last straw that breaks this camels back. First of all, it's a bit misleading for Tomislav...

@Odin Yeah don't get wrong, though. I love beer, and there have been a few rare occasions when I have had to panhandle for a bus ticket or whatever. In fact, that's just part of living on the road and being between jobs. But that's alot different from panhandling every single day and spending...

As a trainhopper, this is why I avoid 80% of other trainhoppers. Don't get me wrong, I have a ton of friends that are crusties and dirtykids, but NOLA is such a perfect example of how most of these scumfucks are blowing up the scene. It's not the media or companies like Vice that is ruining the...

Theres always that one dude across from Uncle Billies hotel that plays like 3 instruments at one time...he's been there for like 10 years. As for trainhopping, has your friend ever done it before?

10/10 I would still run from that moose. Jesus fuck it's as big as a clydesdale horse... Also that festival looks awesome. Are they going to do anything for 2015? Has anyone been to Salmonstock?

I used to do alot of contributing in the trainhopping forum in my earlier days, but thats another story. On that note, I was pretty active on STP 2 years ago and I hooked up several people on STP with jobs in Alaska (see my Cannery post), and 4 of us STP users worked at one cannery together and...

Yep I know Ron. I was going to meetup with him last year in Anchorage, but I ended up getting a job in Ketchikan instead. I might holler at him this year if he is still up there.

I scored a job on a gill netter in Bristol Bay. Haven't met the skipper in real life yet, but he sounded cool on the phone. Keeping my fingers crossed. I'd love to work on a Tender sometime. From what I've heard through the grapevine, there is supposed to be a record-breaking number of fish...

Altogether 3 years so far. Two years at canneries, and one year on a gill netter boat. I'm going back again this year to work on another gill netter boat. I usually take my Alaska earnings and fly to Hawaii and work on the Fall farming jobs there, but I'll likely choose something different...

A few pictures of 2014 while working in the canneries and gill-netting boats of Ketchikan, Alaska

People are going to hate us simply for the sake of justifying their own mundane or miserable existence. By labeling us "bums" or "freeloaders", it helps them subdue their raging jealousy, while also allowing them to feel "superior" and "justified" as being another cog in the machine, another...

I agree 100% with this, and that's exactly what I told the filmmakers when they contacted me on the road. I'm so sick of all the shitty docs about spacebagging gutterpunks that I told them: "If you try to exploit me as a hobo in a negative way, or if this is just another stupid mini-doc about...

What the heck are you talking about? Are you saying that if an independent documentary doesn't pay off their subjects, then they are exploiting people? Alright dude I'm not even going to continue debating that opinion with you, since you obviously have no freakin clue on how independent...