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Hi! What was your favorite country? Or favorite cities?

@roughdraft, I love Lil Peep! Everyone I know makes fun of me for liking him. It's sooo bad. I've been really into Drug Church lately, if ya like good rock music.

Right on, Brother. I struggle w lonliness too, and reckon most humans do. Remember the book I recommended in your book thread? Thats the theme of the book. Its counter intuitive though, as you think finding a a group will quell the loneliness, but the wrong group for the wrong reasons will...

I dont say this a lot, but it's a must read for anyone who enjoys reading. Never heard of Holiday; but right, good stuff to reinforce into your psyche. We can either believe life happens to us, or life happens for us. I like Nietszche's idea of Amor Fati. (or love of fate) “That one wants...

I was in Popayan Columbia with plans to cross into Ecuador. I took the the night bus from Popayan to Ipiales, the border town in Columbia, so I could cross the border early, get it over with and make my way to Mindo. Latin American bus stations are always frenetic and a test of patience. I...

Online hookup/dating sites have always seemed to me inherently creepy and made for predatory behavior. Even vanilla sites like Tinder and the like seem like an absurd way to meet people as opposed to...ya know, just talking to people. A lot of people I really like and respect use dating apps...

Sweet Mom Mobile! I bet your invisible to cops! 👍

Yip. A lifestyle club orientation will focus on consent/etiquette (always ask before watching/joining,dont be a dick if someone says no thanks), safety/protection, and sanitizing toys and play areas. Kinksters and kink community are usually ahead of the curve on these things and dont tolerate...

A great thing about travelling is when youre in a really low place (which inevitably happens on the road) there is always something small thats seems to shift your mood and make everything in the world right again; whether its a sunset, a candy bar being so fucking delicious, or some birds...

SInce you already got two replies with solid advice; Ill be the devil on your shoulder.... DOOO IIIIITTTTTT! Some interesting wierdos will pick you up. Isn't a big part of why we travel to be put in shitty situations that we cant figure out why we put ourselves in. And it'll make a good...

agreed, But, it aint really capitalism if it aint for profit, yea?

I can't remember who I'm quoting (thoreau???) but I always liked the qoute "I am poor by the standards of man, but rich by the standards of nature" YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

Another note....it's sooo frustrating that borders are closed as travel is so cheap. Chatted with a lady who flew into PHX from CHI roundtrip for 18 bucks. Started dicking around on cheap flight sights and found dope deals, Vancouver roundtrip for 60, Guatamala City for 120 roundtrip. Silly, bc...

A lot of the burners I know are into orgies. Some friends convince me to check out burning man two years ago I think, lots of sex stuff. There was this big open shower tent where they had sprinklers and foam/soap dropped. I went bc I value being clean, but a lot of group play went on in there...

I just finished 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Such a good book. It currently my fave ever. Which is a big deal for me to say. It's a great book to travel with bc it's long enough to keep you busy for a while, nuanced enough to read multiple times, and written beautifully...

I was in Laos and suppose to be touring SE asia until the 20th of march, but was worried about being able to get back so called my trip early, flew back to the states for a night and then to Mexico. It was sad and had to reroute my flights which was more expensive than I wanted but I'm grateful...

'puta' is closer to hoe. Punta is point. Hoe's aint got no union. Otherwise pimpin' wouldnt be a thing. And. It aint easy.

Heck yea dood, the santa cruz circuit. I got snowed on the whole time, views were shit, but still magical up there. I've been nerding out hard on Patagonia and Torres del Paine. Really wanting to do it next year. I know ya have a lot of experience in Chile, I'll probably message you soon to...

Hi! Hmm....legitimate question based on your profile pic; Do you by any chance have a brilliant niece named Penny and a dog named Brain? ;)

Dont skip Centro America! It's doooooope. @roughdraft; in your first set of pictures in this thread, there's a shot of the electric blue lake looking down from the saddle of Punta union, yea? I have the exact same shot! Such a good trek.

Tooo coooool! I remember really digging your pictures when they got cool. So good. I always thought your posts were either insightful; or funny as fuck. A rare combo. i feel dumb for not puttin two and two together. Your 2012 afterward blip is really a good honest read. Love it. Everything...

Im bored so Ill throw my vote in. I had an Osprey atmos 55 L that was the best pack ever. Lasted 5 yrs in the height of my travel days. Very comfy, light, small enough that I couldnt fit more than I needed, all kinds of fun pockets, and the shoulders snaps always smelled like my stanky armpits.

This was fun to read. I really dig what Roxy and Dameon had to say. My opinion, all culture is universal now. The interwebs and profit dictate that. My homie makes bank at festivals selling middle class gals those comfy thai pants that have efelants on them.

I was trying to cross into El Sal from Guatamala on CA2. They had givin me the wrong stamp upon [which Ive since heard is common place scam in Guat] entering Guatamala so I couldnt leave. They wanted 100 bucks for the right stamp. I was heartbroken bc I was on a bike and had to back track...

10 nerd points for working A Hemingway quote into this post! 😊

Bees are so cool to watch! How the sentinals come out and they do thier little dances with the bees that are returning to the apiary. So many little social cues that will crack ya up. Also. Hi!

Agree, most excellent write up. I felt like I was there. You picked a great route. Well done sir! I liked your insights at the end. Its wierd, whenever I take extended trips like this the trip itself seems loooong. When I get home theres this odd feeling of simultaneously having never left...

Patriotic = national pride. I stated I have none. So no interest in convincing anyone to be patriotic. And maybe the fact you dont care about interesting ppl doing interesting things is a main part of you thinking american culture sucks.🤷

I hear the anti-american-culture sentiment a lot. As if we are all credit card toting capitolists driving gas guzzlers drinking pop. For everyone of those theres some wierd artist metal working in thier studio or hippy playing in thier garden. It usually seems born of some superiority complex...

The Michael Jackson song from Free Willy. Serious. Good song.

This place = the states? And. Why are you here if you dont like it? But I respectfully disagree. The US is big and beautiful and we have almost every landscape except jungle. There is so much to see! You can travel for months without crossing a border. I've met a lot of amazing people doing...

And while I appreciate your opinions, maybe dont call people's posts cleache and niave when they're trying to help. Better to be kind than right. ;)

Perhaps youre a person that's happy with themselves to begin with! The sentiment of my post is obvious; if you're an unhappy person you'll take it with you where ever you go.

I agree with the idea of finding a place thats right for you; however there's also something in the idea of 'ya cant run from yourself'

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the...

Andy the Dirty, Destruction by Definition by the Suicide Machines was my jaaam when I was a kid! So good. 'Sometimes I dont mind' is my pup and I's song. And you should give hating stuff a lil less a whirl. Youll like it. 😉

Has anyone done Halong Bay? Best way to do it? I'm not a fan of tours but dont wanna miss it.

You goober. You try and sound intelligent but end up sounding silly. First you use a term average median. Just 'on average' is fine. Average is the sum of kiddos divided by couples. Median is the middle point of a set, which wouldnt apply to your point as the median will be higher than 1. If...

Im setting the over/under on 'posts before banned' at 11 for Andy the Dirty. Who's in?

Hmmm...I think this post actually holds up if you read it in an Arnold Schwanegger accent. He's Detective John Kimble, you idiots!

Done and done! Thanks for the link, K! Very easy.

i say 'oi' when I'm feeling physically beat up, and have to stand up from sitting or bend over and it hurts. Im old. Oi.

Meshegenah!

Jeezrr,...these threads always start so amiably. 🤷 In an effort to right the ship... On struggle. A lot of it is mindset. And I agree w Max that there is the tiniest bit of truth in Scarlet's posts. As in; In life we can think things happen to us, or things happen FOR us. Everything can be...

I think youre on the right track. Poverty, when measured by the goals that nature has set for us does not equate to suffering. I think it starts w gratitude for what you do have, rather than worrying about what you dont have. On average, I make about 15k a year, and Im very content w my life...

Lightweight, quick drying, trail runners. Preferably Merrells. I cant stand anything that crosses over my ankles.

I thought the same thing! 😂😂😂 My kinda gal.

To me, the point or theme of this little vignette is obvious; entitlement. OP, as Bro D stated, good on you for not judging and being positive. 😉

I heard the same shit when I planned to Sleep in the scary jungle through central america. I did, for the better part of three months, and nothing bad happened. 😊