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  1. Minnie

    Short-term Food Not Bombs Activist Residency in Washington, DC.

    wicked initiative!! i’ve been involved in fnb in several cities in aus over the past few years and would love for one of the groups to be big enough to do something like this. you’re crew must be strong af, well done! if i ever get my arse on a plane i’ll keep DC in mind.
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    Japan Tips?

    wahoooooo! your input was very fantastic and informative and well put together and exxtremely interesting. i see this was from,,, almost two years ago but i wanna bring this back into action. do you have anything more to add?? how did you go about getting around, what's cheap, what's not?? upon...
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    News & Blogs Qld Mayor having a go at homeless charities

    uhhhhhggg. these people sounds so uneducated saying shit like “they choose to live that lifestyle” when addressing cycles of poverty and addiction. anyone with an slip of empathy or the most basic knowledge of psychology & sociology know that statement to be completely untrue. disgraceful to...
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    what is your favorite song about traveling?

    every second of any trip i’m alone whether it be on side of the road, on a boat or on a track i’ve got Freight Train by Elizathen Cotten looped
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    Looking for work in Australia!

    gumtree.com.au has a job board if you wanna check that out, kinda like a craigslist i guess. fruitpicking is huge spring + summer. aparist work from my knowledge is word of mouth so i’d recommend going to local and farmers markets introducing yourself to the beekeeper stalls maybe. there’s also...
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    alternative communities around australia?

    Northern Rivers area is still huge on it. Byron is a money making machine profiting off the backs of the 70’s folks who built the place. People in Nimbin take some time to welcome you into the community but once they have you’ll find heaps of hidden gems. Lismore’s a good place to meet people...
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    ethiopia, kenya? anyone?

    haha who'd have thought that website could actually have something constructive on it! i'll have to fake an account for the day. thanks for the direction :)))
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    ethiopia, kenya? anyone?

    a friend and I, both savvy solo travellers living the minimum for long distances, are planning our first trip together. she's in czechia and im in australia so we're looking for a meeting point that's similar price to get to from our corners of the globe. morocco, egypt, jordan was mentioned and...
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    Solo Female Travelers

    I’ve been solo hitching since I was 15. the guy who first showed me the ropes of hitching was an absolute fucking creep. i got stuck in a horrible hippie hole costal hub and several different men gave me the trade secrets of being a rugrat street rat from dumpstering, setting up a good camp...
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    Cheers from Australia !

    nice =) I've done the route from sydney/newcastle to alice and back solely by hitching and camping several times. most recently less than 2 months ago.. best advice is to take the longer way and stick to the major highways from SYD > MELB > ADELAIDE and then up because it's much, much easier to...
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    high rise squat with power!

    corporate level creepy :p
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    aus solo femme coming 2 the US

    yeah makes sense.. i guess they could try and pin you with wild charges for having a gun anywhere near government property while trespassing. i'm not gonna be flying over in time. but i'll be for sure checking out slab city at one point. thanks for calming of my fears. guns are almost mythical...
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    Need advice!

    going through cities is an inevitable frustration when youre hitching. i mean, you can utilise all of the free stuff that small towns don't have etc but i hate them as they slow me down. here's what I do when I'm passing through a city.. first i familiarise myself with the city by finding a...
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    aus solo femme coming 2 the US

    cheers for that. yeah yeah sweet!!! have fun on the stuart highway, i love that stretch of road. usually takes me usually two or three nights to get from melbourne to alice via adelaide if im pushing it. im gonna be in alice for the intervention conference at the end of this month and then ill...
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    aus solo femme coming 2 the US

    Need some advice on how to go about this..... generally i'm happy to learn as I go but the continent jump is stirring some unease. first up some background.. I've been hitchhiking around Australia since I was 15 and have done a full loop of the coast and lots of runs through the centre using...