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Just had a bad HelpX experience. Not horror movie bad where you have to escape in the middle of the night from the mafia or from a organ harvest farm. No. It just sucked. The woman hosting me had some issues that she needed to deal with. My last helpX situation back in Portland went alright...

I've been here in Florence for a few days, and maybe it's just me or the rainy weather, but I'm ready to ditch the idea of going further south to Rome. A younger guy I met at the hostel I'm staying told me it would be worth my time to check out Rome. He's from New Zealand backpacking around the...

I've been off the road since the end of June. At that time I left Canby, a town just south of Portland, after growing tired and annoyed at a woof farm from where I stayed. The place was a flop house. Fifteen twenty something year olds using one bathroom, and noooobody was cleaning it. That...

This is a true story despite it being completely unbelievable. But the universe conspired for me this time go around when I left Medford (literally walking out on the town on hwy 99). After spending the night camping outside of Grants Pass, I walked a mile or two further down route 199 until...

I got to rant so here it goes... I am fucking tired of fear. Not my fear, but everyone else's fear that somehow seems to bleed into my psyche via osmosis, and it shits on my state of mind. It's one thing for my family to be worried about me, and I appreciate that, but that's not it. It's people...

Well there was a posting in Litha Park about a few weeks ago that there was a Cougar sighting near a neighborhood just outside the park. I was wondering if anyone had any tips or stories on how they handled wild animals while camping out in the woods. From my experience, I dealt with a few...

There was a time earlier in my life where I felt like I was stuck working shitty retail jobs while living in east TX. I was the kid everyone thought was going to grow up nice and straightlaced and have a job, spouse, kids, blah. You get the picture. When everyone else was smoking or underage...