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"Independence on thirty feet. A survival guide to homesteading on the ocean" --Jacket subtitle. "Consider a boat as a total life support system--living on board, at home, on the seas or in port; sailing where you choose to go and moving on when it is time."

For wild food recipes which include plants, animals, fish, wild flour, and the likes. Briefly touches upon foraging and plant identification. Would be especially good for van dwellers who don't have a refrigerator, hitchhikers, train hoppers and the like.

Wow, looks great thanks for the upload.

two hunder twenty six pages of rules -_-

Welcome to STP jay

My problem is that when I do come accross pepole who believe in chemtrails, I find it hard to immediately whip up such an eloquent and well thought out response. Most of the people who believe in chemtrails have a deep distrust in the military and the government they also have disbanded from the...

Welcome welcome, best of luck on your travels.

I had many tools in my van when traveling and used them to make money/trade and fix the thing. It was definitely worth it to have around imo.

What are they like?

Best of luck, were the timing different I would have definitely loved to see the place and help out. You may already know this but http://ic.org is something you should definitely check out if you're interested in starting an intentional community.

Woah, just a day ago we met some peple in quartzite who were talking about this guy. cant wait to see the video

Seems like a lotta traveler types/dirty kids hang out on the main street "state street" close to the ocean,but that's most of what I know about santa barbara. Im currently staying there, but only for a little bit. It seems like plenty of people live out of there vehicles.

Under bridges over venice blvd west of fairfax in LA? when I was out there recently I saw a ton of rvs parked there.

Tobie and Neva found each other later in life, both being each others 4th marriage. Neva was born there, once a secretary in DC, she’s now back to her homesteading Oklahoma roots. She’s enchanted by these newer ideas of permaculture and ecovillage styled communal living. Tobie is a kind of...

One scary thing that large ideologically embroiled political bodies do is come up with their own definitions for words which have a commonly held definition. The left or at least the section of the left that deals primarily with identity politics seems to be doing this alot. Racism in the oxford...

Although you seem a bit self righteous, 2elcome welcome, glad to see another user who's passionate. You may be in store for some good conversations.

Sorrel?!? how funny, I know you, we met when andy brought you over to rust temple. This whole time I've seen and appreciated your posts on StP and what a treat to now know that I've met you in real life. Stay warm friend :]

Getting the oil changed such a deeply satisfying feeling that I've never been more than 3200 miles or 6 months without an oil change. I'm not on synthetic though. Also changing your oil feels really similar to taking a shower and if you dont have an easy way to shower, an oil change can be a...

Im new to ham radio, got my liscense of few months ago, and use a smiliar handheld boafeng. I don't really have any advice as I'm waiting to get a larger setup entirely for my van and, am maybe mistakenly, assuming that a bigger antennae on the baofeng won't really help my distance that much...

@Hillbilly Castro

0_0 wow, from a comment on the internet to the flesh of someones body what a life. Also good job on the tat :3 looks nice

My grandfather bought a small cabin with no hookups near nelson when he worked as a logger as a twenty something in the 1930s. I've been there a few times, I still have some relatives in the area, it's a great place to be, beautiful and mountainous.

"look busy" or "good job"

Ya this is my problem as well. I always use the hell out of a multitool and the leatherman wave has been my go to tool for years but I have lost maybe 3 at this point and its becoming an economic bane.

Cant say this is the best tip but in my experience using carbon steel blades, they are much easier to sharpen, but they loose an edge quicker. I find them to be desirable. Also having a knife with a long tapered edge ~1/2 inch such that it's easy to rest the edge on the sharpening stone. This...

if you wanted to piss off absolutely everyone. You could get a gas generator to charge your electric bike. Or a coal powered generator.

small gps tracker for the van is really cheap.

I have very little experience hitching but I gather you might be more in danger of falling into the toxic sillycon valley ideologies of san fran, in fact I'm certain that there are predatory tech bros who dress as road dogs in the hope of converting a "cool travler kid" into "dank social...

Woah that looks great

Hey everyone, I'm surprised that a thread like this doesnt seem to exist. The last similar one was posted in 2009 so I thought id give it a shot. What are your favorite films/movies? Preferably of the traveling/nomad/dystopian variety but any will do. Ill go with. 964 pinocchio Brazil Hold...

I have all those parts, The main problem is I don't want to have to buy ice to cool my things and I dont have a reliable way to make it. I want to just use my 12v battery system because I have a ton of power in this van.

I could never be an anarchist. You see I have a pro-state gland within me.

you gotta feed them corn meal for like 2 weeks in order for them to taste good. But I could be wrong. You should eat them though, you already fed them with your greens.

This looks like it makes an air conditioner, still super useful, but I'm trying to make a refrigerator

no bigger than 2 foot by 10 inches or something like that.

Nice! I love engines to jewelry making, but what is function stacking?

Making love in hammock feels more like dancing than making love. In a good way, I almost feel like the hammock becomes another partner, a twosome becomes a threesome as you're more readily subjected to gravity and movements are magnified and muffled. You'll get really turned on by this but...

One of the reasons I'm posting this is because I'm not even sure how to form the right google search. Basically I'm wondering if any of you know of a refrigeration unit I could wire to my 12v batteries and put it inside of a cooler I already use. The mechanism for refrigeration not an entire...

Could be wrong but i've heard from other wwoofers to look out for farmers on that site who just try to overuse your volunteer labor and give you very little in return. Otherwise sounds great, hope you have fun.

I'm about to move into the top story of a 4 story factory space which has line of sight with the downtown area of the town. I was thinking on running an antennae to pickup wifi from the town and get free internet. I started planning something similar to what you wrote and then I found this! no...

Do you have a smaller jack you would recommend?

Crazy past year and a half. After coming back to the states after wandering around in Spain for a while. I landed a very low stakes high paying parttime job programming for a company of ethical ambiguity. I only worked two days a week but it was still soul sucking in many ways. My plan was to...

This manual really fucked with me. Mostly because of how perfectionist and perfect it is. I wish it had a bit of grit. But as a result when I was making my van I felt like I was competing with this guy. He said it took him 14 days to do his floor and my mind would be like "Buuuullllllshiiiiit...

I dont know what the fuck I was thinking on the first van. As long as I've seen people buying cars on craiglist I always hear "dont by a car without a clean title" which automatically makes me curious about what its like buying a car without a title. The guy instead gave me all the paperwork...

***Update 2*** Don't make massive craigslist purchases when you're really stoned, I ended up buying a really nice chevy express at a good price from this guy who ran a palm reading store....big mistake. The van drove amazing and was great in a lot of ways but that guy had no fucking clue what...

Dude that overhanging second story looks hilariously awesome. I'd love to come by when it starts getting cold in the north east.

**Update** The RV ended up not working out, it had been sitting too long and would involve way to much work both bureaucratically and physically. I did however just find a chevy express cargo van and put my savings into getting it. The back is already gutted and I'm hopefully going to post a...

handle of a jewelers saw.

I just found land so now I just gotta haul it out in a few weeks. I'm so excited,already having so many dreams and nightmares about this thing.