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  1. Matt Derrick

    Book recommendations

    So first off I have to apologize because it's been five years since you asked this question and somehow I totally missed it. To answer your question though... I mean... yeah I liked him fine I guess. The thing was at the time, I was a super green newbie traveler when the whole evasion thing...
  2. Matt Derrick

    Intro: Trans Girl From Seattle

    Not to get off topic but the evasion book is not really all it's cracked up to be. Ive posted a bit about it and my personal interactions with the author here on the forums a few times: https://squattheplanet.com/threads/book-recommendations.27562/post-264304
  3. Matt Derrick

    Sex work at Slab City

    i would advise against advertising that kind of service in the slabs. people are generally friendly/welcoming, but you're gonna get a ton of unwanted attention. i mean, im sure you'd clean up, depending on how you present, cause there's a ton of lonely old men out there, but there's also going...
  4. Matt Derrick

    It’s not the size of the plane but how well it flies

    does the white powder come off your clothing? ive never heard of that.
  5. Matt Derrick

    Hello..my name is Georgia and I'm located in the midwest

    @georgiabear one-word thread titles are against our community guidelines. I've changed the title of your thread to something more useful.
  6. Matt Derrick

    Question Crossing from us to canada

    I'm gonna assume those legal troubles are more than misdemeanors (i.e. felonies); if so, then yeah, you're kinda boned on doing things legally. If they're not felonies, I'd try to sort them out and go about things the legal way. As some folks mentioned though, Canada might not be your best...
  7. Matt Derrick

    Question Crossing from us to canada

    background/context would help. is this because of legal issues or financial issues? are you going to be denied a passport because of prior criminal history?
  8. Matt Derrick

    Question just bought a van. any advice?

    @Pate123 im curious to know now, a few months later, how your van is panning out?
  9. Matt Derrick

    Website Updates I need your input on StP's upcoming restructuring plans!

    Thank you! Fortunately, the software we are planning to move to has a place for storing and organizing such files! We wont be able to automate the process but I feel like it will be worth moving it over by hand to make sure that collection is preserved.
  10. Matt Derrick

    first timer here

    1. What's the 509? Is that a highway or a specific train? 2. Did you read the guide to using STP?
  11. Matt Derrick

    who wants to re-organize the vandwelling megathread for me?

    @marymemarryme already tackled this, so huge thanks to them! I'm going to close this thread.
  12. Matt Derrick

    Megathread Van Dwelling & Rubber Tramping Megathread

    @marymemarryme was kind enough to completely reorganize the first post of this thread, many thanks to them for doing so!
  13. Matt Derrick

    Website Updates I need your input on StP's upcoming restructuring plans!

    no, that is just the 'structure' of the categories and their contained tags, it's not the actual website design. it's just text showing where everything would be located.
  14. Matt Derrick

    Website Updates I need your input on StP's upcoming restructuring plans!

    that's the plan when we get there :D the main RSS feed for StP has always been at: https://squattheplanet.com/forums/-/index.rss but we could definitely do a better job at making that more obvious. As @Brookeeeeeeeee pointed out, you can filter RSS feeds by forum category as well. Of course...
  15. Matt Derrick

    who wants to re-organize the vandwelling megathread for me?

    we have a megathread for the van dwelling section here: https://squattheplanet.com/threads/van-dwelling-rubber-tramping-megathread.18655/ it's been a mess forever. if you want to help me re-organize it, please let me know and i'll give you write access. thanks!
  16. Matt Derrick

    Website Updates I need your input on StP's upcoming restructuring plans!

    A new outlook, deteriorating state of social media I've been thinking a lot lately about what an unmitigated fucking disaster social media has become in the past ten years or so. While I'm sure there will be some folks that will say 'I told you so', I don't think any of us really knew how bad...
  17. Matt Derrick

    Festivals Only On FB?

    I agree with you 100%. It's seriously one of the biggest hypocrisies in just about every left leaning movement. I'm hoping to implement some kind of open-source calendar system for events like this that anyone can post on, here on StP, one of these days. It's on the long list of things I'd like...
  18. Matt Derrick

    Seeking Help Seeking Community Input on the 2nd Edition of the Anarchist's Guide To Travel

    I took about 8 months away from this project and am now getting back into finishing it. Hoping for a release date this summer 2024.
  19. Matt Derrick

    Hey! Alex here! -U.S.A. Escapee

    I'd be curious to hear more about what life is like in Iceland.
  20. Matt Derrick

    Traveling, Self Esteem, Social Status, and Happiness

    Yeah, traveling was my cure for depression most of my life. I definitely empathize with the dating situation as well. I did most of my last few years of traveling alone. I've been wondering if there's something I can do with this site to help facilitate connecting folks like ourselves not just...
  21. Matt Derrick

    Street Cred - Homeless-name name dropping

    so, what im gathering here is someone comes in, mentions their street name and waits for you to be like "oh shit ive heard of you, you're like a super famous street kid" and then they're like "yep, im famous, gimme a bike". that's the impression i got from the OP, they're complaining about...
  22. Matt Derrick

    Travelogue Avoid South Florida!

    I lived there for about six months back in 2016 or so? I liked it more than I thought I would, but I was sleeping out on a boat. I did scope for places to crash (just out of habit) and didn't see much, so I'm not surprised to hear what you're saying now. It's such a small island I can't imagine...
  23. Matt Derrick

    Max loads, how much weight do you carry?

    i think i mention it in the book as well, but the best advice i've heard regarding this is "set aside everything you think you'll need, then cut that in half". definitely forces you to reconsider your priorities with each item. but as for exact weight, that really depends on your body type and...
  24. Matt Derrick

    Hey yo .im trust .

    im curious, how did you hear about StP?
  25. Matt Derrick

    Absurd introduction!

    Nice, thanks for the introduction! I'm curious if you make/sell patches online somewhere like etsy? I don't know much about Europe these days but hopefully someone else will chime in. Do you have anything in Europe on your list already?
  26. Matt Derrick

    Website Updates Threads now require a minimum of three tags, and ALL users can tag ALL threads.

    Hey folks, just a quick update to let you know that I've changed the forum settings so that at least three tags are required when creating a new thread. Since we will eventually be moving to a tag-centric forum software, it's important that we start correctly tagging threads in order to make...
  27. Matt Derrick

    Best route out of Seattle south by public transportation? Heading to Cali!

    hell yeah, glad to hear your trip is going well! i came to comment on the buses not existing anymore between olympia and portland, but that was quite a few years ago. it sounds like there are buses on that route now? an alternative would be to take boltbus, which if you book far enough ahead...
  28. Matt Derrick

    My introduction #2

    well, if you want my advice, I'd do the latter. at 20 years old, you have decades ahead of you, at any which time you can decide to settle down and do the house thing. i think you'd be selling yourself short by doing that so early in your life. there's so many things you can do right now (i.e...
  29. Matt Derrick

    Riverman: An American Odyssey by Ben McGrath

    just gonna drop a non-amazon link here :) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545481/riverman-by-ben-mcgrath/ Thanks for the suggestion!
  30. Matt Derrick

    My introduction #2

    sorry about that, you might try an image in a different format (jpg vs png) and see if that works? but welcome to StP! remember to look over the Guide to Using StP and use the search before posting a thread. Happy Birthday! 21 is a big one, youre like, totally 100% legal now, for like, booze...
  31. Matt Derrick

    Hi I'm turk47

    and he's gonna do it with the stuff in the toilet! seriously though, let's calm down a little. others are pointing out things that have been heavily covered in the guide to using StP, and @Theturk47 has posted many questions like this in the past; in addition, as others have stated, this IS...
  32. Matt Derrick

    New & Need a friend

    hmmm okay, have you been to any major cities near you? maybe baltimore or some place further south?
  33. Matt Derrick

    New & Need a friend

    what part of the country are you in?
  34. Matt Derrick

    Squatting Guide 2023 (Netherlands/General)

    Thanks for bringing the file upload issue to our attention. We tweaked some things with the server and you should be able to upload files as large as 100 megabytes now.
  35. Matt Derrick

    Hi, im beau :D

    Hey Beau, welcome to the community. Make sure to read the guide to STP and do some searches before you post, but other than that enjoy your time here and sorry about your situation, but there's a ton of awesome people here that can help! So just spend some time to get to know us and keep...
  36. Matt Derrick

    Squatting In Michigan, Getting Started

    we've answered a lot of these kinds of questions already, have you tried using the search? please stop using chat gpt for factual/legal information. it is a typing tool, not a source of legal advice or even accurate information, it is a system for mashing words together with no promise of...
  37. Matt Derrick

    Question How to upgrade your bike in the snowy winter?

    have you tried using the search engine? reading other posts in this category perhaps? i just feel like we've answered this question a lot already.
  38. Matt Derrick

    Can I use a summer sleeping bag for winter ❄️

    sleeping bags are so incredibly cheap nowadays that you really should be able to afford one, or work up the cash for one. a really nice one would run about 100 bucks online, and used bags should run about 30 bucks or so. i've used summer bags and just put on multiple clothing layers in the...
  39. Matt Derrick

    Hello my name is Bryce from South Africa

    @Vargas i've edted your title to be more descriptive.
  40. Matt Derrick

    Los Angeles connections

    i despise LA, but a few suggestions: Necromance, a gothish taxidermy shop with some mind blowing art The Sunken City - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunken_City about 200+ interesting places on this site: All Places in Los Angeles, California -...
  41. Matt Derrick

    Young anarchist and Wobbly on vagabond trails

    your thread was temporarily held by the anti-spam system, but it's live now :) Great intro, welcome to the community!
  42. Matt Derrick

    Intro and question to anyone!

    Welcome to the community! All your questions are welcome, you don't have to be from any particular background to participate here. Squatting and it's history is a pretty big subject! I'm not sure how much time you have, but we do have a ton of resources in the file library, including books...
  43. Matt Derrick

    i just wrote this, is it good? is it funny?

    The only advice I can offer you at this point is to do some serious introspective thinking about yourself and why you feel the way you do; also consider the fact that maybe you're the one that's wrong, not everyone else. Also, to answer the question asked in your thread title; it's neither...
  44. Matt Derrick

    i just wrote this, is it good? is it funny?

    You have literally no evidence to support that, you're just making unfair assumptions. At no point, in any of @roguetrader's posts, did they ever say that. Don't make things up. Who said I don't like you? Because I commented on your post? The majority of your posts don't make very much...
  45. Matt Derrick

    i just wrote this, is it good? is it funny?

    TL;DR @Uip Bumms: "hey check out my music plz" @roguetrader: "uh, you have some problematic lyrics in there" @Uip Bumms: "how dare you critique my music" (insert various tirades) so you post your music and no one is allowed to have an opinion on it? makes sense /s
  46. Matt Derrick

    Chess

    well... im an idiot and moved it to the wrong forum. sigh sorry, my bad. it's fixed now, thank you for pointing that out. 😵‍💫
  47. Matt Derrick

    Chess

    Did you read the thread that is stickied at the top of the general banter section that says 'read this first'?
  48. Matt Derrick

    Read This First! The General Banter section is now locked, no new threads will be allowed.

    Hey folks, I am reluctantly locking the General Banter section of the forums for now. The reason for this is that I've kind of let it get abused for far too long, and there's just been way, way too many people posting threads in this section instead of taking the time to post their thread in a...
  49. Matt Derrick

    Question Has anyone taken a large dog bike touring before? Any advice?

    I just wanted to chime in on this since i am now an ebike owner, and i gotta say it's one of the best purchases ive made this year, i love it. that said, I personally can't see how an ebike would be all that practical for touring. the range of the battery is not that far; even if you're only...