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I've had that one on my android for several years. It's easy to get into a game when you are stuck somewhere, and it takes enough concentration to let time pass easily.

@OTTERWOLF I don't think you are understanding me, as what you are saying is the same thing I am saying.

Yep. My point being you need the mental time/room to allow new experiences and people into your life, or whatever it is you want. Get too busy dwelling on shitty stuff and you won't be able to enjoy the good stuff.

Losing one thing just leaves room for something new. Keep breathing.

I'd like to check them out sometime as well.

Why don't they just up and be honest ~ the haves would like to have the havenots/homeless "disappeared", and don't care how. I mean seriously...the guy takes issues with someone taking cans out of the trash? Has he never heard of recycling? So what if that guy makes a buck or two doing...

Holy cats and kittens, I only knew of a couple of these..I especially like Project Gutenberg. I'm really impressed with the amount of time it must have taken you to gather up and set down all of this information for us!

I purposely stopped watching/reading/listening to news a long time ago (years), and never watch tv. Netflix or Amazon Prime are the only way I will watch a show. I do have DEPRESSION (all caps because it always feels so melodramatic to me when I say it) as well as other issues, and I had to...

Oh yeah, I'm a gamer and I love the turn-based games. I get so easily distracted! XCom: Enemy Within is my latest love.

I find I get help pretty easily when I need it, but I do have to be careful so people (guys, generally) don't take advantage. I also try not to abuse my "female charms" lol, but yes, they can be useful in a crisis. I always make sure to sincerely thank the people who assist me in any way...

You guys who hop trains are so much more ballsy than I am! I fell off a little ladder and broke all three ankle bones so my foot was just hanging there. I really can't imagine how fucked up I'd get myself trying to catch a moving train....REALLY glad your wife made it through as well as she...

I lost my best friend. Not really the same thing I guess, but hard enough. Makes you want to leave everything you've known and go...somewhere else. Doesn't really matter where. Yeah, my pain went numb after a time, but it's still there waiting, and especially likes to come back in my dreams...

Hey there, welcome to a very cool gathering of folk. :)

I'm diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder and Anxiety. I'm on meds, and have been through years of therapy. I've been homeless, but haven't been on the road yet, although I'm preparing for it. I don't think I'd have gotten through all the trials I've had if...

It's humbling indeed in that moment when we're presented with a life-changing experience in which we have no control other than to try to hang on. I'm glad you did.

I hope more travelers weigh in...since I'll be on the road myself at some point. I want to know what different places are like, also.

Definitely agree that cuddling with a close friend, of either sex, is a fantastic way to get comfort and a feeling of safety. Only if they don't try for more, though, cuz that changes the dynamics...experienced both ways. Of course, if you WANT the other person, and things heat up, that's...

When my son got his first car and started driving, American Family gave us the best price by far, and also allowed him to be a Named Insured on the policy. That means when he gets his own insurance, he'll get the lower price, not the higher "newly insured" price.

If you are concerned about getting repairs if necessary, then go with an insurance carrier that is present all over. State Farm, for example. I'm not saying go with State Farm...just saying a company that is large and has been around a long time is the easiest to deal with by far. One thing...

You can use foil-faced bubble insulation (it's rigid) cut to fit tightly in the windows for using at night. There are lots of people doing this with good results. Or, you can make curtains out of layers of heavy fabric, with strong magnets sewn into the edging. Then you attach metal strips...

Interesting...I looked up B99 and it sounds great. I have a 1985 Diesel truck, and I thought it was a much more involved process to convert over to being able to use biodiesel! So, thanks for that. One thing I do know about diesels in really cold weather is that these engines hate cold weather...

Anything political written by Noam Chomsky is...remarkable. Here's a link to his website: http://www.chomsky.info/

go to my profile page and look at my website. It's pretty much laid out there. It could be liveable by the time the monsoons start.

Hahaha, I like that. I ask because I have a partially built Tiny Home that if it were finished, I'd be happy to either split the sale price, or sell it to YOU super cheap. You'd have a home in Olympia then, at least for a while.

I wish I could help. I have stuff I'm selling for $$ too, god so slowly. I just had a thought. Are you handy with tools/building stuff? Or at least are you willing to try?

Holy shit. The Sea Shephards are heros!

Toledo is a teeny tiny place, I'm sorry you are stuck there. Can you raise some $$ for a little car to stealth in?

Thank god for ecigs. Fucking smoking bans ~ it's like the prohibition on alcohol. Underground indoor smoking clubs are popping up, I bet.

Man, if you were repeatedly getting injured at work, shouldn't they have paid for it? I hope they did. Your car is a good one, and shouldn't just break down on you unless you don't change the oil and do the other basic maintenance. Doing the canoe thing sounds like a fantastic way to feel...

I've seen some gorgeous bus conversions. If I didn't already have my truck, I'd go for a bus in a hot second.

Doing much the same here, and also in Washington state. I have a Tiny Home partially built that I want to sell as I'm going to live in a Tiny Home/Camper I'm currently building. To the OP, it's really not hard to make a van or truck over into a liveable space. Doesn't all have to be done at...

Have you put in your own ad in CL? What you are looking for, as opposed to looking at what other people have posted? It's very possible that the perfect shorty is right next door, but they don't know someone wants what they've got. It's worked for friends of mine....

What East said. Cheap RVs are pretty much universally crap due to at the very least, bad, hidden rot. That'll bite you in the ass, painfully. If you do go that route, take a sharp pointy instrument, and poke around a LOT, looking for soft spots. It won't show you everything, but it'll help...

Yeah, there is that, the possibility of scavenging the camper for useful bits. If there's anything nice in there you could make a few bucks even, on CL. Hmm. I have a camper you can have...lol but you already know it has rotted bits :) There are useful bits in there too, though!

Wow, nice find! It's tempting to go with a free camper, but having lived in one for a couple years, I gotta say they are usually rotted out in some (or many) places, with accompanying insects/spiders/rodents. Especially if it's been in the woods. I'd stick with the great topper you already...

Toyotas with the 22RE engine are the bomb. Just about indestructible, last forever, and get good gas mileage. I know nothing about jeeps, but if that one you linked is actually in good mechanical shape, I'd snap it up myself.

I just heard about The Slabs a week ago for the first time and now there's this. I too have a bunch of books that are (I think) pretty interesting for the library. If I can make the drive, I'll have room for at least another body or two ~ maybe share gas costs? I'm 49 so pretty low-key...

Nice. I like your plans! I warned my mother I'd be selling her stuff (she kinda WAS really a hoarder) but it never helped. :/

Hi :) I am not as much of a minimalist as I need to be, not yet. I have less stuff I'm planning on keeping than anyone I know, but it's still too much. I'm surrounded by my mother/s stuff too, which I'm slowly going through and selling off. It would be enough junk to drive you up the wall...

I agree with you on pretty much everything you've said. I literally meant questions to ask "myself", my inner self, about what I'd need in case of this or that. I have a link to my blog that explains a little why I'm doing this on-the-road-thing; basically, I have no backup plan because I...

Stupid question perhaps, but backup plan for what exactly..living on the road? I don't have a backup plan for that. For smaller things? Working on (hopefully) all the important ones before I go. Never having lived that way before, I figured sites like this are a good place to start thinking of...

you got it!

For several years now I've lived in under 100 sq feet, but getting ready to do it on the back on my truck, on the move. Never had the opportunity before to up and go, so I'm taking advantage of my current situation to try it out. No reason not too, and lots of reasons why it makes sense...