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Legitimately the most entertaining thread I've read in ages! What an actual psychopath, the sexual harassment bit damn near killed me.

@VariedValue Hi, I'm Emily... Well, that all sounds lovely and sincere. But here's the thing, he's not a lovely person. I fucking glad he was a mess when he got back from England, because I was fucking ruined, he leeched every last penny from me, caused me to loose friends because he stole from...

Yeah I bet you don't need one in El Paso! I however live in England and winters are much much nicer when you don't have to wear everything you own!

Oohh that's tough, I'm 5"7 so I have to sleep diagonally in my bed and it's the perfect fit. Means sharing with anyone besides my dog is a no go.

Today I found this old picture of my van when I first got it: And I just want to share because I'm so proud and in love with the little home I've created. It's a world away from the soulless shell it used to be.

Hahah basically yup

Grrl hustle! Welcome to STP, it's a great community. Also I can absolutely relate to what you're saying. I live in my van and have held down several full time jobs as well as working festival season in the summers etc, to maintain a decent amount of savings. I know a lot of people here like the...

SHOCKING! A dude that can't find value in talking about female bodied people's experiences. Also for future reference "invaluable" means extremely useful or indispensable, unlike your contribution to this thread.

It's not a huge deal, but it was playing on my mind, hence the thread. It's not offensive, I just find it irritating. Its usually asked in a tone that barely hides the "you can't do that without a man" mindset, which is fine the first few times, but does get tiresome after you've heard it 50+...

There are so many questions people could ask me about my lifestyle, but there is one question I get asked over and over again. "So, do you have a partner/boyfriend?" This question is always asked by men and they are always shocked when I tell them it's just me and my dog. Perhaps it's because my...

Just for enjoyable reading, the entire discworld series by Terry Pratchett. All his characters could be someone you will meet/ have met on the road.

I would like to point out that a serious problem I've come across is cis male folks saying all the right things and talking about female empowerment, sexism, feminism etc because that's what they know people want to hear, but not actually checking their own behaviour. The OP of this thread being...

You're not alone, when I was 16 I was hanging out with a group of guys in their 20s, my female friend left me at a party and one guy said I could stay at his house. This was the first time I had ever been properly drunk, the vomiting, incapable of walking kind of drunk and he proceeded get on...

Yeah, dragon is the OP and I can confirm he treated them appallingly. He was in a relationship with me the whole time he was with them, and he said the most awful things about them to me and everyone he met whilst with me, even showed me pictures of their black eyes after fights and saying she...

Can't claim to know much about the schooling system over there, or the specific areas you might want to study in, but I totally agree that there are ways to progress and educate yourself without going into debt. Speaking as someone who when to university, got a degree and a whole lot of debt...

Yeah if I did it again I'd do the full insulation, have just helped my friend do her iveco daily and it's insulated to the max, works so well! Thankfully I don't have any problems with damn any more but definitely a shame I didn't get the chance to do it right from scratch. Yeah my burner is...

Meet Ruperty Ru aka Rude-pet. The destroyer of all my nice things and literally my best friend.

My damn heart! She looks so great!

Haha trust me I've done my fair share of that kinda travelling and part of me wishes I could do it. But these days I live in my van with my dog, so I got to have my shit together a little bit. Hopefully I'll be out on the road again soon, but I just paid £1,500 to get a new gearbox, clutch and...

Is that true?

Hardly mob mentality, people just told you gypsy is a slur, not a pretty word for traveller and you don't like it... If you're actually Romani then you wouldn't be so upset about that.

I have always had two ventilation fans in the roof, but they didn't seem to help much. Thankfully it's not much of a problem anymore though. Would still highly recommend for anyone that doesn't have one already though.

I live in my van in England, which is (notably) pretty grey and rainy a lot of the time. During winter the biggest nemesis of most van dwellers is the dreaded damp! Unfortunately when I first converted my van I was pretty broke and in a rush, so I didn't get to insulate my van properly. Last...

I fucking wish I was, how are you travelling? I'd love to hear more about your journey!

You can "stupid" react to as many responses as you like, but at least do some god damn research first. https://www.livescience.com/64171-roma-culture.html

PLEASE check out Akala. He's hands down one of the BEST hip hop artists out there. He's pushing for the return of really hip hop, not the bastardised, capitalist shite it's been turned into. He's a lyrical genius with a lot of political, social content. For all you American folks... You're...

@BusGypsy hey so I live in a van in england, like my parents before me, but I'm NOT a gypsy. If you came and spent a single day with Romani gypsy folk here in the UK/Ireland you would get what the difference is. If you haven't then probably don't insist you are part of it. It's a very complex...

What's he doing on Facebook? Can you link it here? Sounds dodgy...

He is a spoilt brat and will not change. I'm sorry you had to deal with that and glad the people around you had your back. Don't give him anymore chances.

I think it's really hard to compare Europe and North America, both are such vast places, with a huge variety of cultural differences! Living in England and having been to France, Spain, Portugal and Greece, I can vouch that every country in Europe is different in a social/cultural context...

Haha, yeah I feel that. Are you kidding though, stuck in Germany sounds pretty good to me!

And one more thing, because I really can't believe that this dude is pulling such a dramatic sob story. This kid hasn't cut all ties with his family, his mum pays for him to have motel rooms and takeout pizza when he doesn't have a woman in his life to leech off. His grandparents are insanely...

Hey! Glad you decided to come outside. If you keep looking there's a fair few interesting people living in different ways right here in the UK. Of course I recommend going as many places as possible, but whilst you don't have the means to do that, if you want to know about some cool places on...

You're so right, busking isn't the same as spanging at all! It's a performance and a skill. I dislike spanging too, especially when kids tell one person how cool it is to live rough and how they chose it, so they look interesting and get money, then two minutes later when an old lady comes by...

Damn, I'm living in my van in the UK and I've never been there. Stunning, I will have to go one day, unless of course Brexit actually causes the UK to implode!

This is such a load of bollocks, a pathetic cry for attention and attempt to make yourself the victim. Every single one of the people you have screwed over have heard this whole speech a thousand times before. We don't feel sorry for you. Someone said it's a testament to your character that you...

So hey, I'm the "foreign green" as sirius put it. I met him two years ago in nor-cal whilst travelling round the states for 3 months. Myself, my best friend and him went to black bear together and he presented himself as a super nice, wholesome traveller who wanted all the same things as me and...

Honestly, as a woman I actually find that being on the road is sometimes easier and you get treated better when you're not travelling with guys. In a lot of cases (not all) where I've experienced situations getting dodgy is because of men getting agro with each other. Also the sexism is really...

I haven't travelled in europe this year, but i plan to in the future. I thought about it a lot, but the work I've been doing here has been so important to me.

Hey, thanks! Yeah, I'll be back in the states at the start of August, picking back up where i left off in Portland, OR.

Hey people! So its been 9 months since I returned to the UK after travelling in the states and I've been desperate to get back ever since. I miss waking up not knowing where the day might take you, I miss meeting new people and I really fucking miss my partner. I've been using my time in Lincoln...