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Seems like the question comes up fairly often here- Any tips on hitchhiking? I would first suggest people check out the Hitchhiking Megathread sticky post at the top of the Hitchhiking Forum that @Matt Derrick has compiled. It's a fantastic list of resources on the subject that are quite useful...

I'm just wondering how other people deal with this. I've been stopped and harassed by cops a number of times before, both alone and with other people. I know some people like to really go against the grain and I respect that, but me personally.. I'm in the "path of least resistance" camp. Sure...

So I've been housed up about 3 years at the same place and my mental health has plummeted, especially over the last 10 months or so. I've wanted to travel again for a very long time but I ended up getting a large dog back in 2015 and while I was able to rubber tramp with her once across the...

The audio from the 911 call (Err not the 911 call but rather the dispatch radio communications. I edited out the dead air in between. So this is actually 3 separate broadcasts over the course of about 18 minutes condensed down into like 20 seconds) On 9/24/2021 I was sitting out in front of the...

So, over the last few years I've been frequently visiting a website.. probably about as often as I visit STP. Every time I'd enter that other URL and the page would load, I'd find myself becoming more and more aroused. If you're thinking "what does pornhub have to do with politics and...

I've met y'all before. A lot of you seem to be pretty musically inclined, so I thought this might not be a horrible place to ask for a little guidance. I picked up a late 1800's model banjo in Point Reyes back in April and I've fiddled with it a little bit but honestly I just don't know where to...

So, I'm driving along 101 passing the Willits offramp, I see a person sitting criss cross apple sauce on the southbound on ramp, wrapped in a blanket. I'm going 65 and already passing the offramp so I go another couple miles, flip around and go back for them. Hard times for the hitchhiker these...

What are some of the positive things you feel have come from all this covid19 stuff going on? To me it seems like the world will never be the same. That's sort of unprecedented, at least in the 45 years I've been alive. Some people recall 9/11 in a similar way, that it shook the world but did...

Mashin home about 30 minutes ago, a damn raccoon darted out in front of my truck. Flipped a dick went back to put it out of it's misery. It was dead on contact I guess, clean kill. So I was like shit, I don't wanna leave this poor creature here for the vultures and rats. Gloved up, threw him in...

I began high school in 1990, I had... zero friends. Bert Gomez sat behind me in history class, he and I were both into punk, thrash and grindcore. He'd often whisper to me during class "Hey dude, head bang" like a request, it was so weird. We became friends. Within the school year we met Mike...

Mid-Summer 1995 I suppose you'd say we were a ragtag group of punks, skaters and wooks that coexisted within the same circle of friends. There were about a dozen of us who lived together in a two bedroom apartment that was rented to our friend Jason Burns, the only one of us at the time who was...

@ibuzzard arrived at 11:00 pm on Sunday June 9th. We woke up at 4:00 am and were on the road by 4:15, didn't even brush my teeth. We drove up to Quincy California and had breakfast at Morning Thunder Cafe. ibuzzard put the word out that we were looking for an 8 mile ride up to Keddie(our...

November 2011, I was working a trim job up near(ish) Yosemite for a friend(D). He had a small house way back on a tiny dirt road, all the way at the end of a secluded mountain road. The houses were probably about a quarter mile apart, you couldn't see one from the next given the terrain, trees...

Had a conversation with @SlankyLanky the other day and we got on the subject of droppin deuces, came to the realization that almost everyone has a story. So here's mine; Summertime 1996 - My buddy invites me to come stay at his house in Chico California, he picks me up from the Amtrak and we...

I wrote this story up before the site took on some changes and I had my previous profile still, something happened when they merged my old profile with the new one and some of my writings no longer remained tied to this new profile so I'm rewriting them as I go. Here's one about sex and trains...

Met my friend Lee in 1990, he's one of my very favorite people I've ever met. He's always hated the way society operates, absolutely loathes the system and the sheep who blindly participate/help perpetuate it. At one point he had over 50 rifles and more ammunition than any one person could ever...

Less who and more so what about them made them or the experience you shared with them memorable to you? I'll go first. I was a conductor for Union Pacific railroad, it was 2004 and I was commuting from Fresno where I lived(still do) to Bakersfield to take the southbound trains down to West...

Autumn, 2006 Jack London Inn - Oakland California. I'm awoken from my sleep before the sun has risen, the conductor and I catch an easy one today. Our eastbound double stacked intermodal train is pulled out to Emeryville, air tested and ready to go. Cal-P route, we make great time. I've brought...

I'll start with the only details I know. He's gotta be around 38-45 years old. Caucasian, I'm gonna guess around 5'10 170 lbs or so. He's a dirty hat, flannel with cutoff sleeves lookin kind of dude. Last known location, Dunsmuir California on July 20th. Said he had a camp for quite some time...

Now for the plot. How the hell were we going to shake this conductor long enough so we could fuck in that cab? Abbie had already admitted to me she had joined the "mile post club" some time back when she still worked in Sparks when she found herself attracted to a certain engineer, which hey...

After reading the "sex in public places" thread I was reminded of a story. Hopefully by now you know my stories are long but most of the time, I think worth the read. It's just, I have to lay the foundation ya know? So, the story goes; I was working in Roseville and sleeping in my car in the UP...

Steph was a sweetheart, she and I became tight when I visited New Orleans. We went out painting graffiti one night I was there and it brought that part of me back to life. I'll miss her a lot. I hate to be the bearer of bad news for any of those who had the pleasure of knowing her. It's just...

We walked for about 4 miles to the neighborhood of Pilsen in Chicago. There was a Y in that location that was just outside yard limits. In the middle of that Y were cottonwood trees and bushes. We made camp there and found one of the hills had weed growing, fully flowered and purple from the...

We found a 48 further up the train with a larger open well and rode that into Belin. On the way to Belin I began to get very thirsty and all I had was cans of tuna in water. I opened the cans and drank the tuna water which to my surprise tasted better than I was anticipating. Tony wasn't eating...

So that was that, they were on their ride. I had worked out with Lynn Thomas that I would ride his second units back to Roseville, Lynn Gale the engineer agreed and before long they were on duty and I was headed back to Roseville. Well, that train had all sorts of bad luck, nothing was going our...

I said "hey listen here, I know you don't see this a lot but" He then interrupted me and said "I see it plenty, don't worry about it get back in there" I then said "well I'm an engineer for this very same railroad, this very same yard." He got a real wide eyed look and seemed speechless. I said...

Part 1; Autumn 2006 Roseville. I was coming up on a red signal at Atkinson, which is the signal in front of the Roseville yard office at the small road crossing. I went after some air (initial set of air to the train brakes) and I was ready to meet the next crew who would relieve us of our...