Recent content by West

Come check out the Long Haul InfoShop in Berkeley, California! It's two blocks from Ashby Bart (train) station, and is a great place to read, attend events and network with other people! (both travelers, local homeless, and housies). As a radical space, everyone is welcome until they act like...

the only other time I've hitched north out of SF hadda walk thru Sausalito to the 101 on-ramp north of town. Hoping some of y'all know a good spot on the 5! Preciate cha

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Boarded-up property will no longer be synonymous with blight in Ohio. The state became the first in the nation this week to outlaw the use of plywood on abandoned and vacant properties. The prohibition was tucked into one of 28 bills signed Wednesday by Republican Gov. John...

I'm not sure how he died; but his crew from North Carolina posted about his death online. Even though he passed in late 2015 I still don't feel like asking his friends, who I don't know, the details. He was a traveler and a graffiti writer. Hit me up if you knew him. Pour one out if you didn't...

I'm going from Austin,TX to Oakland, CA with more stuff than I can hitch with so I'm taking a bus- I've seen the Mexican us lines run through town and my friend Cesar in the kitchen I worked at told me they are way cheaper than greyhounds and run faster- I'm curious if any of you have ridden...

http://nypost.com/2015/08/10/engineer-develops-map-the-homeless-app/ New Yorkers can now try to help tackle the city’s homeless problem with a new app. David Fox, a 25-year-old data engineer from Murray Hill, developed Map the Homeless after getting fed up with transients aggressively begging...

SIX INVOLVED IN STABBING AT TRAILER SPACE RECORD SHOP - KXAN NEWS http://kxan.com/2015/08/06/six-involved-in-stabbing-at-trailer-space-record-shop/ "AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin police said multiple people were stabbed after a brawl that spawned from heckling at an East Austin venue. Austin Police...

I'd describe 'em as early 2000's Northwest pirate punk. c: Lead singer later became the lead singer of Modest Mouse :O Check 'em out

Thought I'd throw this up for anyone who can get down with some angsty folk "punk" :)

After a long day of hitching (Pacifica, CA > Santa Cruz > CA > Monterey CA and a longer day of hiking through Monterey to get to a good hitch-out spot, my road dog and I decided to set up camp off of the highway in some woods. On our way into the bush we met an old bum named Merle who chatted us...

Jack Black, a reformed yegg who spent his life tramping America as a burglar/safecracker in the age of the Old West bum wrote an autobiography called "You Can't Win". It's a sobering and honest story full of amazing historical tidbits about what jail, the rails, cops, burgling was like in the...

I've heard this word a lot on the road, occasionally in reference to yers truly, and always with a characteristic tone of disgust. Here're some different meanings of the word as I inferred 'em. Trustafarian: 1) A person, usually a naiive young white male, whose rich parents pay for them to...

I'm planning on forging a tomahawk head that slips on and off of handles of any length. A train Graff writer i met would carry a tomahawk head and handle separately in a satchel - both are legal to carry so long as they're not attached. I'm curious whether this is true everywhere? I'd make a...

I joined squat the planet early 2013 but didn't hit the road until July 2014 a few months ago - I learned a ton on this forum and have used it as a resource in meeting people - it was a good forum to lurk for a sheltered Mormon kid completely detached from the underground. I hitched for two...

I've been benching for a year or two now and writing monikers as long. Still suck! I'm curious as to how many travelers actually write monikers these days? Any of you guys feel the need to mark all? HISTORY: For those who don't know, monikers or "monicas" were names given to hobos by their...