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Only the pissing in a circle if your a dude? Someone oughta show you the squat-shuffle. Or draw a diagram. Make ya real grateful for your pecker.

Under me being "under my tarp", but still pretty grisly. Related: this morning I woke up and watched a cockroach crawl out of my toothbrush bag. It paused on the edge of the bag, waggled it's antennae, and scurried into my pack. Then, I brushed my teeth. Gotta do what you gotta do. -takes a bow-

So, this is sketchy advice but it's been true for me. Knife law enforcement.... depends on who you are. Small, female, looking like you may have just come off a mountain somewhere? I carried a 8" kabar bolo knife on my hip for ages, in towns and cities, never got hasseled. I agree that the a...

Three times I've followed a fenceline to a gate and found enough play in the latch to just slip through... I'm smallish, but not a stick figure, either. Always worth looking for the gate. If your fence goes through any wooded area, look for fallen trees on it and just climb up the ramp. I...

Ung, yeah the mice. In Oregon especially. So often I'd roll over them in the night and find squished mice with popped out eyeballs under me.

Actually, a big tarp makes a pretty good early warning system for critters near you, since stepping(or, if you happened to be a panicked snake, thrashing violently on it) on it makes a decently loud noise.

I spend a ton of time in the southwest, sleeping on a tarp when I can't be assed to put a tent up. Dangerous critters are never so common as the locals make them seem. In four years of sleeping outside, I caught a snake near me ONCE while sleeping. It was a tiny texas brownsnake, which eat worms...

Love that last one

Haha, yeah don't worry not trying to talk anyone into going out to buy a new bike, but I figure showing off my set up could eventually be useful to someone searching for info.

Bike and pack: I'll post a picture next time I load it up, so this makes more sense... With the small wheels on most folding bikes, you can get away with top loading a rear rack moreso then a full sized bike; the centre of gravity stays low. When I got my bike I had a rack made that would just...

I have a BF Pocket Llama, which is Bike Friday's expedition/mountain folding bike. Its a bit of a pain in the ass to fold down all the way, but it rides like a normal bike. Normal for me means "decent touring bike", so for anyone used to less, it rides like a fucking amazing bike. Hitch hiking...

Naw, name is a childhood nickname I kinda liked. I'll look into the second year visa... I'm leaving NZ early June, coming back mid July. Looked up the Tongariro Alpine trek. Wow.

Haha, wow great post, thanks. Saving up all these ideas - going to be working for a while, since I can always get another tourist visa, but I can only spend one year ever fruit picking and stuff here, and it's wierdly fulfilling work! Getting around won't ever be a problem... I've crossed the US...

Set em up, get some video footage of them trashed while their dogs fight under a bridge in the rain... cue to announcer "You only wish you where this fucking traincore!" Play it it during the superbowl. PROFIT!

Thank you for this post. Fairly recently I spent a long, frustrated night, storming around Eugene, unable to sleeping, trying to think of SOMETHING to say to all the potentially well meaning people who tell me to be careful in a world they mostly avoid living in. "Hey thanks for the warning but...

Getting dropped in a city isn't too bad. In-city public transit tends to be decent and cheap. I'm in NZ now and actually finding it a bit harder to get around then in the US. You'll probably get a lot of rides from people who don't normally pick up hitch hikers... doesnt always happen, but...

Lawl, would like to see REI go out and sponser a bunch of crusties.... The future!

Huh, just noticed some kind of "keep the french quarter safe" sponsored facebook ad popping up, full of confused comments which seem to merge violent criminals and drunk bums into a single entity. Whattabuncha handwringing.

This. The bum bait thing doesn't offend me terribly, because it's clearly meant to be offensive. If it was "for real" it would be couched in PC for-their-own-good, think-of-the-children style bullshit. At worst, this is just bad taste, but pretty harmless I think.

Will do... in a few days when I have wifi instead of a tiny pittance of mobile data. Seriously am going to appreciate the bounty of free hotspots in the US when I get back.

This thread: A duel with an audience. I get the feeling the rest of us are just yapping in the background.

Never mind just blew most of the rest of my data to load the pics. Worth it! I want to go back, cold rain and bug and all. Looks like good times!

Man I loved hitching in Alaska... people would drive through ditches, huge trucks block traffic to pick me up, no one gave a fuck if I was standing in a good spot or if there was room to pull over, so easy to get rides. Spent a freezing night huddled over a tiny stick fire in the brooks range...

Okay, got to argue about the "dumpster diving taking resources away from others" thing. Most trash gets THROWN AWAY. Unless I'm at the most popular fucking dumpster on the planet, I'll eat trash with $500 in my pocket because its a good free meal and chances are it'll spoil or get hauled away...

I'll carry my trash with me for days on a bike if I have to rather then ditching it in the woods, but all the same I have mixed feeling about it. The problem isn't trash not being put in the right place, the problem is that we have non composting materials that we dispose of after a single use...

Shrug maybe I'm being taken in but this guy doesn't seem too unreasonable. Can't say I've ever actually read the blog though.

The phrase "illegal vending" makes me ragey. It's fucked up when you can generally get away with non aggro spanging, but if you try to actually earn money they come down on you even harder!

Spending a long night in a boxcar one track from humping trains deep in roseville yard was pretty interesting. Like sleeping in the dragons lair, with the dragons fucking. Also heard a lot of feet and dog paws crunching around in the ballast, kinda funny how busy it was in there. Felt different...

Yep pretty sure I saw the place last time I was through. Don't recall the name.

I'm up to three really nice smartwool/icebreaker brand merino wool tops now, all for a few dollars at various thrift stores. Anytime I see the stuff I grab it... when the clothing gets wrecked I cut off and save all the useable material. Only time I'll actually patch socks ><

I had some blm volunteer guy come up on me in a remote campground once and demand ID. Asked him why and he said "do you know what an amber alert is? We need to know who has been here in case there is one". Give me a fucking break.

No good treating everyone like a criminal so the most fearful can think they're safe.

Hah I think I know the girl. Fucking awesome person. Beat a mountain lion off one of her goats once. So, op, why not move around a bit if you're going to be in a tent anyway? I love it out there, but I still think you'll get bored before going long term broke. That'll also be a good...

Took the bolt bus from eugene to portland... clean cozy cushiony seats with reading lights, clean shitter, friendly laid back driver... no issues with luggage since they let you go under to bus and load/unload your own shit. Normally they have free wife but it was down. Cost $6. Shit I wish...

Once I thought there was poop on the floor but it was only a severed mouse head. I did not sniff it.

Good stuff.. I didn't know about the hydrogen peroxide. Seriously going to use that. Related; bird parts are super easy to dry out. To preserve bird wings, just slit open the skin and peel out the muscle. A sewing needle works well for small birds. Pack salt into the skin, keep it ventilated...

Haha oh fuck, gross. Okay, I shat myself once while waiting in line at a taco place for the bathroom key. While I was standing there feeling like a tard and smelling like shit, a friend texted me to ask what I was up to. Of course, my answer was, "I'm pooping!". Much later I told her I wasnt...

Yep, and after that they might decide to shut down that part of the forest to public use... for your own safety, of course!

Oh yeah, word about pit fires... if there are trees nearby, be vigilant! A hot coal can actually smoulder its way through thick old roots... days later, you have a smoking tree that just might burst into flames. Seems crazy, but I've actually seen one of these start; smoking cracks three feet...

If a dakota fire put is just a fire in a hole or trench, yep works great. It takes alot more skill to build a small fire then a big one, so practice and pay attention. Start a few small twigs burning, slowly carefully add more. Dont just start a big sloppy mess of loose shit on fire... seen so...

Other thing you can do with bean seeds and sunflower seeds real easy is microgreens. Almost same as sprouts but you do plant them in soil and let them get a little bigger, then cut all the tops off for greens. Just stick them real dense in the ground, no need to worry and spacing them since they...

If you want sprouts, dont use soil. Glass or plastic jar, with holes punched in the lid or mosquito mesh tied over it. Soak them overnight then drain. Rinse twice a day. Lentils and peas keep longer. Mung bean sprouts turn brown fast in the light. Google for better more patient instructions...

Not sure what part of the world and what sort of canoe traveling you're looking...if its more the wilderness river type, I don't have much to offer yet. I've always thought it might be kind of fun to do this for a bit in a riverside city. I grew up near Minneapolis, for example, and I know that...

Not so much in the way of an actual first aid kit, but I usually have food type items that double for medical stuff. Vinegar is the big one; kicked a nasty staph infection with it. Everything gets cleaned with vinegar. Honey I've used very effectively for a bad burn, ginger for nausea, garlic to...

Pooped in a woodchip hopper once in dire necessity. While I was squatting, train went through a tunnel. Sudden darkness was so disorienting I tipped over and ended up with douglas fir slivers all down my pants. Fucking sucked. Next time I held it for nine hours.

Good thing to mention, sprouts. For the most part I've stopped buying salad greens because they're stupid expensive and spoil quickly. Whole lentils, dry peas, and mung beans however are very cheap and sprouts grow easily in a backpack pocket or bicye pannier. If you are diligent enough about...

Heya. Usually when I spend a few weeks somewhere I start putting things in the ground. There are a lot of things from the grocery store or dumpster you can get growing without waiting for seeds; green onion bottoms(go ahead and cut off the tops and use them, they will wilt anyway as the plant...

Try skyscanner for cheaper tickets. I flew from Honolulu for 650USD with no extra baggage charges. Cheapest I saw was half that but the per kilo charge on checked baggage would have killed the deal since I brought my bike over. Thanks for the tip, Matt. Once I head out of here I'll probably have...

Whoa, good stuff gypsyfreak. Think I'll still stick out the kiwi season in Te Puke, but knowing what else is out there really ups my attitude. I have my foldy touring bike over here so getting anywhere is never a problem... just takes time!

Post got cut short because my phone wont let me scroll down to type more. Anyway, its been pretty good here. Public transit sucks but hitching is super easy. every tiny town has tons of interesting food. Its kind of strange to be in such a young country. Rarely ever see anything old or run down...