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I know of a few places you can take shelter including home depot sheds and some little cubbys with heaters you can sleep behind in a small alcove at the university dorms. If these sound like it would help you out at all reply and I can send you exact locations. Stay warm. 2105 Buchtel Blvd S...

Willow trees have most of the material you need for a framed wicker pack, but I have seen them hybridized with oil treated leather. As for straps and tie downs hemp is a popular choice. I have resorted to sewing together my own pack out of miscellaneous scrap pieces of fabric and straps. Buy...

Hi welcome. Maybe if you could elaborate more on your situation, people could help more clearly. As for giving up your identity, there are plenty of illegal immigrants that will buy your social security card so they can work legitimately. Your idea of getting a van seems like a great way to...

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I got kind of close to making it, but I turned around in southwest Arizona on a whim to go to the grand canyon instead. 1300 miles on my motored bicycle was fun no matter the destinations. But i do hope to make it next year. But here is the reason I missed it:

There are actually many states and areas in which being able to quickly detach the engine allows you to not be subject to the laws governing motor driven cycles. An example from motoredbikes.com: A Bicycle with a motor attached (engine shall not exceed 150cc, nor shall the engine exceed 5 brake...

I almost got the dax titan for my front engine @MilkaNoobie still might at some point but these Tanaka engines I have are great for reliability, running for up to 6 hours straight, better than Honda or Subaru's fourstrokes for that, duo engines gives me a chance to alternate their useage or...

This year I am trying a new mode of travel, this 150mpg duo engine motorized bicycle: This is the route I am taking, mostly 25 miles per hour through mountains. If you are transiting this same area in the 3 days preceding or following the event or after maybe I can jump in your van for part...

Good luck sir. I also just found I need some custom machined work done on my motored bike so also may not be going despite planning for a few months and dumping $1000 into it. Hope you make it. I might be doing some bitchhiking if I have to resort to it.

Federal checkpoints have been known to confiscate legal medical cannabis, that's why i try to avoid them.

Based on this map of permanent immigration checkpoints, there looks to be one in Niland. Any tips on precise locations and hot to avoid these on our way to and from the Jambo anyone? I plan on coming in from the east via Ripley and that back road.

I have hitched thousands of miles with all different sizes of bikes and kayaks. People tend to pick you up surprisingly quicker the bigger it is.

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Someone stole food from millionaires at BM? They should have called the police sooner its an outrage! They shouldve just stayed in their mansions and streamed it from the couch.

Oh man.. oh man not Patrick..this guy was a living legend. I regret not putting in more effort to meet him. RIP, you will never know how much you inspired the world sir. This is a huge loss.

This is a quote on rabbit brush from wikipedia that has me severely regretting using it while hiking all around los alamos last year Specimens growing in Bayo Canyon, near Los Alamos, New Mexico, exhibit a concentration of radioactive strontium-90 300,000 times higher than a normal plant. Their...

Of course thats what were talking about here isnt it? Ive walked more miles backwards like this than most have forward

Out west i use sage brush up north and rabbit brush down south. In the midwest and east, eastern red cedar seems to inhibit the growth of almost everything but eventually can grow mildew so you want to alternate with other plants

Ive always travels sockless to keep boot rot at bay. You can throw in local aromatic plants to keep the smell down, lots of plants are bacteriostatic too.

Ive crossposted this to reddit.com/r/vagabond here:

Can kat Bastard come? ::eyepatch::

Hope you had a good birthday Tude. Thanks for sending jimmy and i those rocks in Taos a long time back and your ceaseless commitment toward helping travelers.

Here is my daily beater. No brakes or gears currently, as I havent done a bit of maintenance since December. The chain should have broke by now and every 3rd peddle, in have to kick the chain backwards to unstick it. This sucker has been on a few trains and toured my across southern New Mexico...

Highwaymans posts are often a perfect example of the kind of over-the-top optimism with tones of passive aggression that makes him sound like he thinks he is better.

Kenny aka hobolifestyle has a good video on youtube of hitchimg a plane ride in quincy california. I caught a ride in a private plane in ohio once. The guy even let me fly it.

This is terrible. Get your ass to Missouri if you can. You can make it out.

Ridiculous. Being human does not grant you some spiritually mandated right to survival at other's expense. I hope this is continued to be dealt with on a case by case basis. If this were the ruling everywhere then why even bother to hide your stealing? Hell I spend $40 a day on food because I am...

Agreed. While certainly not my worst stories, Greyhound tops the list of something fucked up always happening. Whether it is almost getting arrested, shit stolen ,given shitty drugs, or breaking down multiple times.

Posting from prison?

Heres another scary one. I once stepped into some woods on the south side of Dallas to pee at night. That section of the Trinity River bottoms is no stranger to having dead bodies turn up. Headlights suddenly shone on me from the woods and shots were being fired at me. I ran up to the bridge and...

Hopped this unit to avoid crossing live autoracks (in the rain) and mostly because of this thread hah. 2nd crew found me anyways and gave me the boot near flagstaff. Viking ships seem to provide the best cover followed by winged pigs. A nice 8 pound pack raft could go anywhere; ive just sold my...

I would kill for a banker job...

Ok so i brought it on a unit. This was done with gear at a bnsf fueling stop midday. Rode up to the fueling pumps, threw the bike over my shoulder with my pack and wiggled in the door. As you said Doc, its a familiar route between unit checks, but to test out, i broke it down to see if it...

Some absolutely are earned. If you ask enough workers some will hand out vests/hats/etc with the company logos on them. These are precious. Most are simply ordered online by someone and traded.

I have more but here are some of the worst: Boone NC a guy invites me over for food. His apartment is filled with children's toys, guns, bolts on the door and bars over the windows. He makes me some food which i sneakily throw away when he leaves the room. He comes back and asks why i didn't...

Im obsessed with maps so I probably came across it cruising a map one day. As your link says there used to be an ice road there. Dig a lil deeper there are/were seasonal ice roads to nunavut.

There are seasonal roads (oct-mar?) requiring thick ice. The truckers whove done it say they go in convoys and theres absolutely no way any of them would drag you along---unless you were to strand yourself hundreds of miles from civilization and intercept their convoy in a life/death situation...

Ive been picked up and allowed to fly a rides plain. There are people who hang out at small airports looking for that opportunity. Alternatively there are ice road truckers that go to nunavut

If i took out my wanking stick in public-menacingly or not-someone would make me put it away.

Regarding riding the units have you ever considered bringing a bike into the electricity room [the room in the unit with a bar across the doorway] you can leave it in there as they dont check it in crew changes. Ive measured the doorway its pleny large to get the bike through the door over that...

No i never went. I called the police who immediately recognized harveys name but denied there was anyone in town making accusations about him. The op never responded very strange

If I don't hear any updates I am going to take some time off work to hitchhike up to Springer to poke around within the next couple weeks

I have been picked up by a guy who went on and on about preying on homeless in Austin, TX. Be wary in any area that has a lot of easy pickings for predators and an overwhelmed law enforcement staff ie northern california and the deep south. Mexico City I saw some scaary things.

I am living in Santa Fe New Mexico sleeping outside right now, have hitched/walked through springer many times. PM me if you need help OP

Raping, killing, and plundering?

where is that?

My favorite new road weapon is one of those lightweight ice climbing axes they sell at rei. Swinfg that and someone is getting hurt, not to mention they are easily packable

I used DraStic for android, but I don't know of any that will let you trade. I just have the good ole gameboys now

ROMS these days are incredible. I just got a couple actual gameboys and pokemon games; sold some, battle and trade with my gf on the others. I recently stopped traveling, but pokemon gold was fun on those long waits.

Like naomi leigh I was also going to recommend kratom. You have to very gradually lower benzodoses over time, benzo withdrawal can actually kill you. I wish you the best.