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Good luck with the student loans, but congrats on the rest.

Kudos to the boomstick and chainsaw, can never beat a classic like that. Anyone else wanna squat a military base?

Katana, .45acp, mountain bike, lightweight body armor, 5lb of quinoa, and my tin fucking cup, IF I'm going to try to stay mobile... If I had to be stationary? a .30cal with a few thousand rounds, some razor wire, a reinforced concrete bunker, food for a few years, and a .38 special, just in...

Sweet.

Be prepared to camp on the beach and what's the worst that could happen? I'm thinking of heading over that way for a bit, lemme know how your time over there pans out, or if you want to link up at all...

Not to retract any of my prior statements, but I have had some interesting experiences with ny siltarp, abd I'm wondering if anyone else (::looking at Wider::) has had the same problem: misting. When my tarp was already drenched from an absolute downpour in northern Nova Scotia a week or so...

wait, how did you cut your junk doing a forward roll? that's the FIRST thing that gets tucked in, before my damn face...

hey you bail outta boston yet? i'm going to be doing a bit of riding around New England next week, if yer up for it.

wait, YOU got a ticket for not having a belt on, or the driver got two counts? i don't know how it works up there, but the driver usually gets a ticket down here in the US. good luck.

which area along the border? i FLEW up the E77 this summer, but only after spending 18 hours WALKING through rural slovakia with my thumb out...

if you've got a SIM card AND the contacts were saved on the SIM, you can simply swap it out. Tracfone uses both kinds of tech. pm me details and i should be able to help ya. model number of the phone would help.

yeah Macks you are from OR, why not just hit the 5 straight? I did that plenty of times this past summer with little trouble, just had to have a decent sized sign...

hah you can stick me with that fucking needle while i cough blood on your face! (yes i know that flu does not usually cause respiratory hemmoraging)

I'm with ya mkirby, with a slight nod to acknowledge that it is possible for some info to become TOO easy. Look at Hitchwiki: it's a great resource for hitching (more in europe), but the people whom started out with it never learned to scout a good hitching spot on their own. I absolutely do...

haha that's fucking hilarious. Please tell me that booze/narcotics/road head were involved?

HAH I know Issac (oldgrowth), met him @ StP Spring gathering a few months ago. Where's he at nowadays?

hey any decent shows going on next week in portand? I found a couchsurfing host in portland for after the gathering, so i will hang there fr a day or two. just a thought... hassy, loess, see you at the gathering. i am already in wells.

Hah I will def. be there, I had so much fun last time drinking down by the Artsy area (can't remember the name) and getting smashed at the White Elephant and hitting the Play club...mmm, good memories of drunken revelry in Vilnius! I shall return, and I'll drop you a line when I'm there.

I'll be Heading up that way this week! Drop me a line if you're bored and/or what someone to hang with for a bit. I'll be in Wells this weekend, then Portland en route North. Oh that note, anybody know of a good train to get me north towards Nova Scotia? PMed info would be helpful (I know...

Ravie you're an asshole. You're also my hero. That's horrible, but fucking awesome. If I were there, I would have punched you REALLY hard. And hugged you. Of course, not sure which I would have done first...

No worries. I can give as much info as you'd like about the 7/8/9 hitch-hiking festival, hitching in Europe, etc etc. Drop me a PM if you want. Anything I post on a forum around here is fair game to be used/abused/misquoted/etc

Yeah, months ago (back in SPRING, as Arrow reminded me) I was getting pretty serious about reducing the weight of everything. I've learned that there has to be some sort of balance between weight and durability though. I'm wondering what some of those packs (like the 4700cu in canvas beast)...

Hmm looks pretty good poe boy. I just dug an old REI pack with some hella thick nylon out of storage, I'm gonna wear that till it breaks down, we'll see how far it lasts...those Duluth packs look like my next pick, when this one goes under.

man i sure hope its as bimbproof as you say, i can't see spending cash on a new pack. still, the 'big' ones look nice.

The only tough area I can think of would be the Serbia/Kosovo border. Besides that, I know of problems in Moldova (if you enter from the autonomous region), and problems 'accidentally' hopping into belarus (how?! I have no idea). Go for it! Just be careful if you hit Bosnia, as there are...

Ya winter can be a huuuge bitch. For wilderness squatting, BE PREPARED. In winter, ALWAYS have something to start a fire with. Canvas is better than anything if you're not carrying it (coat it with wax, oil, or fat to make it *mostly* waterproof) to make a tent/shelter out of. 50 yards is...

indeed it is, ust try to search before asking! welcome to StP.

Eh, I generally only travel (I hitch mostly) with other hitchers, preferrably of the hardcore variety. When the time comes, or there is a disagreement, or whatever, it's easy to simply say "see ya later..." Who knows, you might, might not. But if you start off solo, not relying on anyone like...

Good luck, and do your homework! (I know, we all hate that phrase). Aussie visas are simple to get, as long as you don't tell the truth (DONT mention that you're homeless/broke/wandering/etc). Just pretend to be another typical yuppie, on your few week vacation wanting to "adventure backpack"...

Hah, well I can say firsthand and straightforward that most of them (that is, the artificial/store brand ones) aren't nearly as 'effective' or 'pleasant' as some of the herbal solutions out there...y'know, just from experience.

Just imagine if a guy was going down on you after eating a spicy meal...At least it's easy to dunk a pecker in cold water...

So I picked up a firesteel rod, just to test it out, and I'm pleased with how it works. I still stick to BIC's, unless I'm going SERIOUS backcountry adventuring, then I'll bring the firesteel or a magnifier with me.

I lived in Portland for 6 months a while back, but i had a car and mostly hung out with other climbers and stayed out of the city. Bote: I can't remember the name, but I could drive you there. Got stoned a LOT at the fort... Most/all of my friends have dissapeared, but there are still some...

Hah, Finn, I've got a funny story from a stupid friend back at University along those same lines. He learned not to get head after eating spicy food w/his girlfriend...dude was practically in tears!

I look at it this way: At the fall StP gathering, folks made fun of me for washing my clothes, cookset, hands, etc. After the StP gathering, everyone (whom I heard from) got sick. Everyone, but me. I might be a bit cleaner than the rest of ya sometimes, but there COULD be a reason for that...

Sux. But I can totally agree with the comment about smell...trust your nose!

Hah fuck the french. If you want to be polite, simply open with "Bonjour" and smile. If you want to get your point across, start with "enschultzegung, sprechen zie deutch? Nein? Engels?" (I botched the spelling, but look up the translation for "excuse me, do you speak german? No...

Just returned from there, but know a few interesting hospitality projects if you're down (Amsterdam, Berlin, Tallinn, Helsinki, etc).

I hitched through there some months back, spoke to some locals. *everyone* goes there expecting to find easy work, and it's not so easy. I got lucky, got a lift with a grower whom offered me some work. I haven't actually taken it, haven't worked there, so I can't speak to that. Just keep in...

Yeah check out hitchwiki.org or search for "hitch-hikers phrasebook" I've got a few in PDF if you want. also, European Phrase Book - Hilton Harbour GENERALLY SPEAKING, in western europe you will be able to find someone whom speaks a few words of english anywhere. Eastern Europe, it depends...

I stay farrr away from any sort of anti-stick coating; it cannot usually take the heat put out by a straight up fire. And you don't want to get teflon in your food. Steel, Aluminum or Titanium (best, most $$$) and a pinch of oil are what I use. Ti plate and Ti cup are some of the best...

Nice. Well, good luck, I've got some friends on the way whom love to host random travelers (Amsterdam, Berlin, etc). I don't take so many pictures, but I'll post the ones I've taken...When my lazy ass gets around to it.

Yeah, they do, but you've got to fight with them sometimes. They don't do shit if you're international, which made a bit of a difference for me last year w/a shit pair of boots, but otherwise they're pretty good. And the actual gear is usually top-quality rebrands.

Whistler is right: SilNylon is a more expensive material, most of those cheap-ass flys are made of PU-coated Nylon, which transits water from touch, and generally blows. Grab a SilNylon tarp.

okay, so not to be offensive, but have you hitched before? Yes, it is possible to make up to 1000km in a day, but that is with straight travel. Stopping in cities can and will slow you down considerably. Are you planning on stopping in all of the cities you've mentioned? If so, I'd say a...

Okay, I think that's a bit overamitious, and you should be clear with cities; some are easier than others to get to in a specific country (I'm assuming all capitals). Holland is a [large] region within The Netherlands. You can refer to either, but both sounds strange. Krakov is way cooler...

Might not make it this time 'round...

Nah, i actually picked up some more, and only recently in Ukraine gave it away...I tend to do that when someone says that they need something which I have.

Welcome...One of my HHing friends has actually just moved to Istanbul for the forseeable future, trying to eek out a living somehow. She's a hella experienced traveler, and has some good connections all over Europe if you find yourself in need.

Agree with Wider (I'm certain this has been brought up before, but won't hold it against ya). I'm hitching around europe now, and actually just spent last night out in the rain, wrapped up in my 6x8 silnylon tarp. I *WOULD* have stayed totally dry despite the rainstorm if I had not been...