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This is a long shot but I'm really up against it. Philly residents or folks who are familiar with the city...are there any good spots you know of either in squats or bandos where I could possibly find a little shelter from the elements without exposing myself to too many other people? I've been...

Thanks. That gives me hope. Or courage. Or both. :)

Well done! I finally convinced my boyfriend to cut his hair back into the Travis Bickle 'hawk. Now all I have to tackle is this winter beard of his...I told him birds would start nesting in it if he didn't get rid of it ASAP.

I'm an idiot and don't know what that means...

Thank you. :) I'm glad you both liked it. Here is another short one to leave things off with. I hope others will share more. --- Afterwards I ride to the lake, deserted, which is insane considering the heat: a living thing - early August, nearly unreal. I don't jump so much as fall in. This is...

I had an idea that the knife was probably not the best idea. A friend of mine told me how to practice drawing it, but really the most dangerous situation I'd probably end up in is going to happen in a car or truck. Honestly my biggest concern (when it comes to legit emergencies, i.e. the dude...

He wrote his dreams down backwards so that he would not miss a thing. But then he'd send them to me that way, all mismatched, and fucked up, eternally opposite, leading to the beginning the moment of falling fast asleep. Have you ever read a letter back to front? So it starts from the...

Sorry this post is over a month old but this is one of my main concerns as well...I'm 32 but almost everyone assumes I'm at least a decade younger and sometimes more - I'm 5'0" and just have one of those young-looking faces. I have never hitched in the States and am planning on carrying mace and...

France can be a little tricky to navigate. The French tend to be kinda standoffish if you speak with any kind of English accent - when I was there I lived with my British-born ex who spoke it fluently with no accent and it made things somewhat easier. Depending on how you plan on traveling this...

How did Iike who? Kiwis or Frenchies? (Both are rad, but clarify so I can give you a tailored response, lol.)

Your plans sound super fun. Let me know if you have any questions about NZ or France, I have lived and worked in both countries (see my reply to Wawa's thread about NZ and feel free to hit me up if there's anything specific you'd like to know).

I...wow. You just blew my mind a little. Ahahahahahaha. This is dubiously related, but I was in rehab once and there was this ghettofabulous girl named Latoya who, I dunno if she smuggled in drugs or if she was just crazy enough to be SUUUUUPER medicated, but she would regularly nod off and...

F for...FUUUUUUUUUUUNNNK. K.

...Oh! I was just randomly reminded of this when a Kiwi friend of mine mentioned this the other day...I know that the above suggestions have mostly concerned the North Island, but I wanted to make sure I gave you the heads-up about Hokitika. It's a tiny little town on the west coast of the South...

Our friend Libby stayed over for dinner Friday night...Libby from Woodstock, the girl who was dating Luke's old friend Damian, who had the house on the mountain last summer. Turns out Damian is not exactly the most stellar human being ever...he and Luke had a falling-out last August and they...

I mean it's to the point where I myself cannot even fathom sleeping on it. My face will smell like feet for all eternity. Will I destroy it if I bleach it? If so, I will just go seek out another mat and maybe somehow taxidermy this one so I can remember it always.

Little-disclosed fact: 73% of all popular women's fashion including hair and makeup requires some form of heavy construction/industrial-strength chemical or mechanical intervention.

Yeah man that was actually exactly what I was thinking!...also not sure if my hair is long enough (probably not but could give it a shot) but I was definitely thinking braids or knots...something semi-permanent like that. This is the look that seems to be making the rounds...it's a tight...

So I have this fantastic, ancient orange yoga mat...purchased in 2005. It has been my dedicated Bikram mat for that entire time and has a lot of sentimental value. (I know, I get attached to weird things.) It's a great mat and I've hauled it all around the world with me and even slept on it for...

Yes! I was thinking of a streak of color...probably just black, for contrast...also something I have never done. My mind may be blown. (On a practical note, how easy would it be to strip black dye afterwards?) The Rufio look is tempting as well. I fear it would not have the same impact without...

Mostly this is about a uniqueness of look...I guess is what I'm thinking. And what I meant was mostly that being on the road is supposed to be a statement. (...There are all sorts of fancy philosophical reasons and motivations behind the above but since we're all on a budget and schedule here...

Nice. Sexy. Looks heavy.

Except it's a year's worth of not being the way it is anymore. It's cool, I'll figure something out. I'm seriously considering going the Gary Oldman route. Plastic doesn't need to be washed (theoretically).

Maybe I will just shave half and put a plastic collander on top of it. And grow a goatee.

I guess the only other issue is that I'm blonde, so I can't really shave huge parts right down to the scalp because my hair is so light it just makes it look like I have mange or something. No one wants to pick up a blonde chick with mange.

...Okay I have to know what video game that's from.

As for me, I guess you could call me a "street medic" too. My big talent is pharmacology, so I'm pretty good at pulling any dirt-cheap generic from the shelves and finding a hundred different uses for it. (Did you know that the big brand $100 face creams have the same active ingredient as...

Get yourself a tube of Anbesol, or the generic equivalent. It's marketed as an oral analgesic for toothaches and the like. Just look for any active ingredient that ends in "-caine" - that's code for a local anaesthetic of some sort. In this case it's benzocaine. Lidocaine is another common one...

Wigs are fun. I have worn a few of them for shoots (it can be hard for photographers when you only have one hair "look" though, I'll say, at least 50% of my bookings are because of my short hair. Not all people can pull it off). (Well, formerly-short hair.) And yes a mohawk was the general...

Hey soooo - this may seem a little irrelevant so I really hope I'm not violating any unspoken rules lol, but I'll take a chance and say...I'm trying to figure out what to do with my hair...lol. I've had super short pixie hair for the majority of my life. I use #4 clippers on the sides and back...

That's a really good point. You're going to look a lot less inconspicuous when you're trying to stuff a tent into your pack at 7AM in broad daylight. Didn't even think of that. Also a really good point. Thanks man.

Trying to decide on my rough camping options...I'm planning on a hitching trip and I'd previously been really nervous about the idea of getting "stuck" in between towns or rides and having to sleep out in the open. Like, really nervous. But, I'm guessing that it should help a little bit if I...

By the way, PLEASE tell me you are named after the Wawa in Philly lol.

Just so you know, you do have the option of applying for a second-year work visa...they started this the year I was there, actually. The original working holiday visa program was a private scheme run through student and youth work exchanges like BUNAC. They implemented another public...

Luke dropped out in 9th grade to go camp out in the woods in the Catskills. That's basically everyone from PK in a nutshell.

We rode the rail trail today to the Walkway Over The Hudson for the first time and it was junkyards and swamp the whole way. Did you know anyone who went to Poughkeepsie Day School?

Poughkeepsie is the literal worst.

Oh and his family and him have a blowing studio and gallery in Beacon...called Hudson Beach Glass. If you're ever in the area. Lots of fun. We do lessons!

But yeah he used to do demonstrations at the Corning Glass Museum...he's one of the top artists in his field for sure. Just have to brag on him lol. He's very talented. <3

This is going to sound really weird but...glass pumpkins. Haha. We have an Etsy shop called /LukeGilveyGlass. It may be down since we were bums about paying the fees this spring (our busy season is fall, for probably obvious reasons). The pumpkins are our bread and butter and pay the bills...

(Preamble: a two-year vet. I apologize for the length of this. I get really excited whenever anyone talks about NZ, I loved it so much I actually tried to emigrate there, lol.) It's going to be hard hitching out of pretty much everywhere in the North Island except the two big cities (ESPECIALLY...

There is a cat like this that lives in our barn. A big feral orange thing. He never gets close enough for me to pet him but every morning at 9AM sharp he is at the barn door like "Where's my Fancy Feast, wench??" I named him Fuckface, lol.

Thanks Hey man - I've never been up to Troy but my boyfriend has. I just asked him about Prism and he hadn't heard about them specifically, but they seem to mostly make bongs and pipes and things and (surprisingly, lol) he doesn't really make stuff like that...he made one bong when he was 18...

Really?? Wow, that would never have occurred to me. Well (not to go off-topic but), if you want any specific advice concerning New Zealand, feel free to message me...I spent a LOT of time there and have been to pretty much every corner of the country from Cape Reinga to Stewart Island. And...

Hey folks. I think I just committed a message board misdemeanor by posting a question before intro'ing myself - sorry! Anyway I'm Sarah and my boyfriend and I are glassblowers from the Hudson Valley. (Boyfriend is a second-gen glass artist and pretty well-known in this general area. If you're...

Thanks man, that thread was great - and I'll hit up that chick cause she sounds awesome. I was just telling myself...(my dad was basically a rocket scientist out of MIT so I have a tendency to be pathologically logical)...seriously, what is the worst that could happen? I mean within reason. I...

Ha! I am definitely banking on that, LOL. I am also expecting to be offered lodging for the night from some drivers. This may be okay, in a pinch - generally I prefer to vet my hosts ahead of time whenever possible, because when you're tired and frustrated and night is falling you don't...

Yeah, I'm definitely steering away from big cities. I guess my concern is how realistic it would be for me to expect to get rides basically right to where I want to be staying for the night. Or am I going to have to plan on camping/roughing it when the last driver of the night isn't going my...

Hi all. Sorry to immediately barge in and start asking questions, but it took me a while just to find a dedicated hitching forum and I'm trying to get on the road fairly soon. I want to do a hitchhiking trip just to see how far west I can get...I've been using my various social media platforms...