Recent content by Matt Derrick

Hey folks, it's been a minute since I've posted an announcement here... I've been taking a lot of time off from StP to adjust to a post-traveler lifestyle, and I've spent the past two to three years experimenting with various projects; most of which are things I've always wanted to do but...

Hey folks, just a quick post to let you know that the website forum software has been updated to the latest version. This reset the website design so that's why the website looks so different right now. I'll be working on rebuilding it over the next few days, and making some important...

Caught some of the lights outside of Portland, Oregon last night!

Hey folks, just a quick message to let everyone know that I'm cancelling all future plans I've posted here for the StP website. The etsy store has been closed, and the donations have been disabled. The website will continue on in a kind of 'maintenance mode' where it will go on 'as-is' for the...

we have a megathread for the van dwelling section here: https://squattheplanet.com/threads/van-dwelling-rubber-tramping-megathread.18655/ it's been a mess forever. if you want to help me re-organize it, please let me know and i'll give you write access. thanks!

A new outlook, deteriorating state of social media I've been thinking a lot lately about what an unmitigated fucking disaster social media has become in the past ten years or so. While I'm sure there will be some folks that will say 'I told you so', I don't think any of us really knew how bad...

Hey folks, just a quick update to let you know that I've changed the forum settings so that at least three tags are required when creating a new thread. Since we will eventually be moving to a tag-centric forum software, it's important that we start correctly tagging threads in order to make...

Hey folks, I am reluctantly locking the General Banter section of the forums for now. The reason for this is that I've kind of let it get abused for far too long, and there's just been way, way too many people posting threads in this section instead of taking the time to post their thread in a...

You sent me a message through the StP contact form with the wrong email address, so I can't reply to or fix your account. email here is [email protected]

UPDATE; OCT 23 2023: StP will NOT be shutting down at the end of the year! Please read this thread for more details: https://squattheplanet.com/threads/stp-will-not-be-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-the-year.44742/ --------------------------------------- Hey everyone, I’m sorry to say I have bad...

Oh, and @jimi made this great little temporary flyer for folks to pass around:

Hey folks, based on our previous discussion threads and community polls, we've decided that this year's Dirty Scouts Jamboree will be on: September 11th-13th, 2023 Since I need to be in the Cle Elum, WA area during this time for some family events during the same time, we'll be gathering in...

I thought it might interest some folks on here to see how you could possibly travel around the USA and never go that far above or below 70 degrees :) From Brian B's Climate Blog ---------------------------------------------------- In all my (many) years of making maps, the most popular by far...

"Vladimir" Excerpted from Adventure Cats by Laura J Moss (Workman Publishing). Copyright © 2017 My three-year-old cat spends most of her time lounging by the window. It faces the high branches of the tree outside our apartment, and she stares intently out at the rusty-red wood thrushes and...