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Train on the Brain (one of my favorites on trainhopping)

American Nomads (Kind of cool, boring at times)

The Travelers - Real Life MTV Documentary (Surprisingly good for being MTV)

Amazing people! great place! looks totally awesome and seems pretty much done for the sake of it, I love it. "I don't know why more people don't do it" Ending quote of the video. It totally gets me, like when you open a squat and then everybody wants in and then there are just a few places in...

The higher im at, the more I'll stick to canvas. thank you :)

epic, epic, epic, epic and moar epic. This is the kind of stuff that really moves me. I hope you keep up with the updates, amazing adventure you are taking there. You are the kind of people that really inspires me.

Technically speaking, there is no reason why there could be any quality loss while using hyperfocal distances. Hyperfocal means that from a certain distance up to, say, infinity, everything will be on focus. Same happens when you focus and your f/stops are high enough to give you a considerable...

I assume you talk about manual focus lenses, which is a point to make clear not to discourage those auto focus addicts when they realize. So that you can tell them next that manual focusing is a whole dimension of photography that has been stripped away from people since auto focus became the...

can't see the pics, is it just me?

sounds like a great idea, but like highwayman put it out very clear, these are different times, specially for USA and EU, where people can very easily live off the excess of normal society and have safe passage while doing sketchy stuff (except some minorities and paperless) In my first years...

I agree. For a lot of people, when traveling, they need something to hold on to, a reason to go somewhere. Most people can't just go to Alaska and have their own adventure while discovering new places. I dont blame them, usually everybody starts somewhat like that. Also, a bus in the middle of...

What is a brillo pad? interesting that there is a scrubbing pad made for stainless steel :P will look for it. About eggs and stainless steel, its true and also with other stuff, but I have been quite good at cleaning without soap while traveling and leaving a layer of fat and who knows what...

There are tons of pots you can find that are not necessarily designed for traveling and are still lightweight. I found one stainless steel pot with no handle (that's usually where designs differ) that I consider perfect, its light enough and I found a aluminum top that fits perfectly and works...

dude, use your imagination. How am I supposed to know where you are at and whats nice around it? It should inspire you and whoever you are with, so dont ask people such things. Make sure the car is at least +1,80m / preferably 2m wide so you can fit a bed and sleep that way, lengthwise bed...

anything but boring standard living will bring you extra points in love life, except you take craps inside your van and feed it to your collection of mice and rats (and still, I imagine some punks who would dig that) Just make sure that when you are fixing the living space on your car, you have...

Just remember that while the reason for your asylum seeking is "still there" you cant go back to your home country. So if you fear general violence you wont be able to get back there ever again unless you quit your asylum (which will fuck you up if you need that ever again for real). btw...

When it comes to travelers, maybe (just maybe) this whole thing affect us those who travel around Schengen (Border-less EU countries). But that is not for sure. One argument used by the people who ran against Brexit was that EU meant Schengen territory. That is not entirely truth. Of course the...

also, 180$ for such little amount of canvas, some meters of thread and a zipper is a bit of a joke. If you guys want such a thing and are around europe, I'll sew that shit for you in a day for a couple bucks, materials costs and choice on you.

I think you nailed it, I had some similar points to make but as a start, the breath-ability turned me down on thinking any further. Im working a lot on some DIY gear and I love canvas for so many reasons. Been working on a multipurpose system and always struggle to make a multipurpose thing that...

would it breath? since its canvas, it must have some kind of water repellent treatment. And those usually make whatever non breathable, so you'll eventually soak your sleeping bag / blanket unless there's something I dont know!

Well, you dont have it that bad. A friend of mine was biking his way out of italy and in the border, while tenting, about 20 cops came and one of them got taken out of his tent with a machinegun barrel inside his mouth. Later on )one of them understood italian) the cops discussed whether to...

Welcome! not sure which drama you mean, here is quite allright! I remember you from /r/vagabond. been following the site a bit until I said something "wrong" and got banned forever... Here you might just get a thread closed for being a bit too opinionated (not as bad as banning), which sucks...

The thing with cargo ships is something that cannot be fixed with a "hey, go to this website and..." or "hey, this is a company that..." unless you REALLY want to avoid flying and have some spare thousands. I have been heavily checking prices for the service that cargo ships offer to take you...

That's about it, everything else can be doublechecked for necessity during your trip, and if you find enough situations where that thing you thought would be useful happened to be needed, then go and get it wherever you are. you dont have to go out with everything, just the basics. That way also...

After 9 days of hitchin' from north norway to Oslo, trough sweden, -20C/-30C average, the last 100km to reach final destination, its late, im tired, not a single car, fucking long hours, no chance of sleeping without freezing, snow is coming and its already -30... the only car that comes stops...

I have been reading the whole thread (yeah, crazy, I know) and I have to say that among a few replies, this is the one that gets closer to what I think and the reason why im interested in the subject. Funny enough, people think that its off topic, when it couldnt be more in topic. To start...

I just checked randomly the list, and there are some really nice ones for much less, just look for something light with a good blade, you can use the rest of the money on some water purifier or something like that

Sounds like you know what you need. check some multitools: Amazon Gerber's one seems like a really good option and its exactly the amount of money you have. seems a bit heavy (says the 350gr leatherman owner!) but that's just me. One good thing that can also be a bad thing, is that it has...

Oh, and if someone wants to do the thing with the wax and hair drier, be gentle with the drier, I just broke one :P

I just corrected the above message and added a few more tips!

HA! Such a great coincidence. I made a backpack for a friend, finished it yesterday. Had some great fabric (cotton mixed with silk for strength), problem is that it has the exact same color as yours! so she asked me if there would be a way to change the color... I tried some things, first the...

:) yeah, German punks are so freaking paranoid, as if the cops didn't knew their names and faces from their chipped passports already :P

about the coffee thing, I guess everyone can have their crazy items. But me, being a heavy coffee drinker while on the road, I just learned the fine art of pot coffee, a.k.a. Turkish coffee and have gotten nothing but praising on my coffee.

Second that. Fuck labels and specially those with dressing codes.

hi! I live in Oslo. Unfortunately we are not taking new people at our squat, and Im pretty sure that 40 isnt taking people. Problem is that there are way too few squats, most of them got evicted in the last few years and not many people bother to start new ones, so instead of taking new people...

check this out to see if the aurora is up to where you are http://www.aurora-service.eu/aurora-forecast/ last night was more south, so maybe wasn't all the way up there, now it is!

I guess you saw the northern lights last night, I could see them from Oslo city center while it was cloudy! if not, look up tonight and next few nights, its a powerful solar flare week!

no idea what travel hacking means, just a quick search returned tips for spending less on traveling. I dont know how to spend less while traveling, much less about having a credit card. but I do know how to spend nothing while traveling. Just hitchhike, dumpsterdive, camp or temporarily squat...

I hovered trough your article and seems quite awesome, but shit, have to go now. Will read it later. Anyways, just wanted to comment on the "drying cherries with a helicopter" what??? :P helicopters are the most expensive machinery to keep on per minute, so those cherries must be really...

I couldn't help but noticing that the product you are advertising has the same colours as your clothes in the profile pic, are you into some kind of green business?

The tarp comment was awesome, I remember once putting my shit under one and when I got back to get it I realized couple meters before that it had become windy and I could hear the shit flapping. your "looks like trash" gave me a fucking awesome idea. Just take a trash bag and make it look...

when its winter and its cold as fuck, males can keep a wide mouthed bottle (a normal one would do if you wanna risk what OP just told us) inside the sleeping bag, when needing to pee just raise your hips and pee in the bottle as if you wanted to pee on your face or something like that (sorry...

if there's something better than a after eviction squat, is one where the peoples get some money for it :P

I agree that some wwoof'ing places expect you to work way too much. I mean, travelers go out of 9-5 work routine for a reason, so expecting us to go there to work same amount of time for less in exchange seems a bit abusive to me. I usually avoid such places, but when I happened to be in some of...

Well, there isn't any standard place in the world that shows up everywhere I go that I would use as a place to hidemy pack. It would be like this neck-hanging-pouches that are sold in airport shops that supposedly hide your valuables under your shirt, I wouldnt use one of those either, as that's...

Ohh, and by the way, except when your backpack is hidden away where only you know. Keep it always with you. Im being told all the time about my backpack-paranoia as I keep it always with me, even when hitchhiking, I prefer to have it with me than to put it in the trunk (you need to have very...

Because its not easy to do so. some people have that look you know, the "im a target look" and some have that scary look that makes them stay safer than others. Some flash their fancy iphones in the wrong places and get robbed, some people dont even have fancy phones, so even if someone tries to...

Yeah, the tyvek thing is noisy, I guess similar to plastic tarps (which was the first material I was using and gave me such a bad feeling that I quit it for normal fabric) Also, the point of using cotton or fabrics in general, is that I want to be able to make big fires inside without worrying...

One of the main points of the tipi design is that it encourages ventilation in a way that smoke spirals its way up straight from the fire. If you have experience lots of smoke on the inside, it means that the tipi was not properly set up or that the smoke flaps were not being properly used. The...