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There is a thread back here somewhere about me being on the North Island in 2015. It was pretty lukewarm. I biked past a lot of farms and orchards and neverending fencelines, then got a job picking kiwifruit with a buncha people I never warmed up to much, stayed three months pining away for wild...

Yeah, but there is a limit on what I'm going to share!

Piss in the bladder can slightly lower your body temp, since it requires more energy to keep it up to body twmp, or something like that. Using your pissbottle as a heater though, not too bad an idea. When I used to spend more time on a bicycle, in remote desert backroads and such, I'd ration...

Reviving this thread for a minute since this might be useful searchable info. Last year I applied for and received a working holiday visa from New Zealand. After three months on the North Island, I came back to the USA for the summer and spent most of it having a pretty sweet time riding trains...

Be willing to walk real far to find a good sleeping spot. Try to get beyond the usual bum range. If you are just passing put for a night and moving on, forested parks, rivers ect through nice neigborhoods can work, not much drama there, since cops get called if anyone sees ya :P On weekends...

Fuck yeah piss story thread! One time I tried to piss out a hole in the floor, inside the shelter of a Canadian grainer. This was during a pretty awful scary windstorm in Sask, and also on a moderately fast moving train. So, of course, all that piss just sprays me in the face. I manage to stop...

Snerk....kekeke... oh sounds of me snorting supressed laughter. Hay guyz I just found this cool forum for travelers and squatters and stuff! So... then I told em to get a job! Highfive!

Hell yeah man. Ran into a woman with six pack goats living in the backcountry once and Ive on and off though of such a thing ever since.

Some of te most unhelpful, annoying people out therr are thorntree posters. Seriously. This thread makes me think of this:

There was plenty of soaking and swimming back in October....

I'm in Norcal now, not super high elevation, but I'd absolutely not want to be without a warm bag. I go for less warm clothes and more warm sleeping bag because I can keep active, run around a bit, do some pushups, raise my body temp during the day, and know that when I gotta go sleep I'll be comfy.

Who hates drums? Sheesh. Keep your instrument as long as it gives you joy. I'd ditch a blanket or even better, the tent. Once you get south, rain won't be a daily part of your life and a tarp should do ya.... though you might have to ride out some wet times on the way down. Sleeping pads are...

Hah nice one. Always been apprehensive about IMs anywhere near Lathrop.

Merino wool. Best thing out there. expensive, but not impossible to score off thrift stores. Aside from my important wool stuff, I usually pick up cheap thrift store warm layers then discard them when I feel like I'm carrying them more then wearing them.

Also, yeah, I'm partial to Quartzsite. Four-ish years ago I stumbled into the place, new on the road, broke and confused with no useful skills. I met a lot of great people, learned skills that changed my life, and came back the next two winters able to really successfully sell shit that I...

This fits some criteria and not others, but.... check out Quartzsite, AZ? It's nothing in the summer, but by winter it turns into a mess of flea markets, rocks and gem shows, and all the snowbirds from everywhere camped out in the desert. Once you get past them, there is lots of warm beautiful...

Hella beautiful shots, Matt. So grateful this thing happened!

Sera. Lady with shaved head, got there late. We hung out a bit.

I'll just dump these here, too. Damn it's great out there.

Oy, I didn't get any shots of the library as wild pirate bar since I was fucking late, but here's other quieter stuff in and around the library.

Along with my sleeping bag, I always carry a dark wool or fleece blanket. The uglier the better. Aside from being extra warmth or a pillow, it's a great prop for disguising my pack as a pile of bum trash. Tarps and trash bags are too reflective, and the dirty blanket seems a bit more offputting...

Just the though of your badass art, decorating spacebag boxes, littered across the catchouts of America makes me grin a big shiteating grin

Think I actually might make it to this thing before it's over! I'm in ogden on my way... here's hoping for a lucky sunset stop sorta near Niland.

Wondering about this street vending thing... Did it all over the place for years, and this sure never happened. Now and then local police or city people would trouble me, and once a local got all wigged out. Never even had anything stolen, or if I did I never noticed.

On the inside, listening to your life summed up from the outside.... for entertainment. It's a weird feeling. This'll probably annoy me even if they do an okay job....

I'm not too comfortable in people's houses. I've never had my own place and it boggles my mind to see all the "standard" stuff people feel they gotta maintain. A kitchen AND a dining room. 12 sets of bathroom towels. Heaps of laundry, because wearing a t shirt for a few hours makes it "dirty"...

Did you ever get to fart or did it turn around and become an ass tasting belch? Inquiring minds wish to know.

If a thing exists, so will misconceptions about it. Insofar as riding trains... I think mainstream lore and entertainment do such a stellar job of disinformation that none of us really matter. Folks will think and question for themselves... or they won't.

Reading this thread, I'm glad that I already some people highly motivated and involved in setting up more safe space, more sharing, more workshops... cuz, you know, I don't have to doubt they exist :D

Well, wow. Thank you both. I've given the first part of this advise, without really thinking about the implied victim blaming. Appreciate the food for thought.

Oregon is great. Coast is laid back and liberal, inland is laid back and conservative =P Lot more to the state then the coast, too, btw. Get east of the cascades and its dry, rugged, with amazing rivers, mountain roads, dreamy hillscapes, either velvet green or golden depending on the season...

Yep good place. Good camping along the river close to downtown, long as you don't leave your stuff set up. You can also take the city bus 40mi out of town near blue river, and camp in NF land(technically restricted in this area, but its a bloody forest they won't find you) for 1.50. The downtown...

Heya.. wasn't my bus and I'm no expert, but I lived on my friends short bus for a while, and she got that thing down some crazy rutted mud mountain tracks. Bus has awesome ground clearance, just feels a bit... tippy. Think it got 10-12 mpg, too.

And, of course once you hit MT, public land starts being a thing again so its easy.

I've always had good experiences in the northern midwest. Camping in places without a lot of exposure to travelers can go either way, but for me its always been more like "the locals aren't embittered by transients so they just treat ya like a human being". Twice in MN I've been woken up by...

Agreement on not letting people call us bums. People need to learn a bit more about the people on the roads and streets and woods. It bothers me a lot, the way people and organizations talk about "ending homelessness".... hell, they make it sound awful aggressive. Stomp out homelessness! Crush...

Just to put rubber tramping and traveling with kids into perspective... we didn't come up with it! Here's an example; I have an Uncle, and cousins who are baptist missionaries. The cousins have raised their kids(true to form, they all had a lot of em!) in a school bus, in african villages, in...

Honestly, I'd say the only thing he did wrong was get caught. Bizarre, deviant, and violent sexual fantasies are... common. As long as he didn't actually do anything, who cares what the guy jerks off to? It's all just adult make belief. Can't actually watch the doc because of bandwidth stuff...

So.... whose up for some pussy magnet viking pizza delivery....?

So I'm in New Zealand working the kiwifruit harvest, and its the squarest job I've had in the last four years. I've been living in this hostel, paying rent and taxes for three months and even THIS is almost too much! I hurt my shoulder and went to sleep in the van for a few hours at work... woke...

Naw I never tried to go back, but I got to just say something: I'm really, sincerely happy for you. Well done.

Probably just means the normal level of rainbow arrests, which are avoidable. Tie a rope to your dog, wear pants on public roads, don't drive with a busted headlight, don't pass the pipe to a forest ranger. If he meant something more... hell even with as brainwashed as some people seem, I don't...

Also anxiously waiting for news!

Ain't nothin. I found eleven hawaiian pizzas once, and like thirty little cups of dominos dipping sauces. Dumpster score boasting aside, pizzas and pastries are pretty commonly thrown away. Party food, cheap to make, not worth leftovers or something. Oddest thing I found was a cupcake on a...

Mentioned this on another thread just now, but again... check out sawyer squeeze mini. I think its the cheapest, smallest, lightest, longest lasting filter out there. Works on a bottle or as a gravity filter. Costs $20 on amazon or walmarts that stock it.

Pots n pans... best thing I've found is to just go to a cheap shit store and get a coated nonstick POT, not pan. Take the handle off and ditch it, there goes most of the weight. Use leather or one of those camping pot grabbers or something. Its non stick, so can use it for pan stuff and pot stuff.

Check out the sawyer squeeze mini. Its tiny, lasts forever, and you can put it on a bottle or hang it with a bag like a gravity filter. Sometimes walmarts carry them for $20, comes with a little water bag that wears out fast, but the filter is legit. Don't let it freeze.

This thread makes me sad because traditional funerals strike me as terrible and I want nothing to do with one, but I don't think I know anyone who'd actually agree to steal my body and feed it to the scavengers :( Hopefully I die somewhere no one can find me till I've done some decaying. ....I...

So it would be ball envy instead of penis envy?

The important thing to take away from this is that a good used bike is always always always better then a shit new bike. Seriously some of these things people ride are barely repairable, not meant to have parts replaced. Look for old mountain bikes with no suspension, especially older trek ones...