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What's the risk of catching a trespassing charge in places like this? I love to travel but finding a place where I feel safe is the hardest thing about it for me. I'm basically a ball of nerves and over worry.

Something pulls me out there. Ever since I was a kid I wanted to do something "Across America." It was drive, walk, push a longboard.. now its back to walking. My first hitch hiking adventure from Ga, to the Ocala national forests, all the way to the big flats of Okie was an alternative to...

First time I went traveling I had this huge plan laid out and it immediately went to shit after I made some friends and went north for a while instead of west. I would just get some maps for the first leg and plan point to point. The plan will always be changing.

Atlanta will sometimes have people walking around checking bags. Salt Lake City, Utah is the only city I've been through that makes everyone line up and checks every single bag. Arizona, and it seems like anywhere close to the Mexican border, will have these random searches from Border patrol...

the more i hear and read into it the more of a pain in the ass this vehicle seems to be. Guess im gonna have to pass on this. I def dont have the money for expensive parts or changing gears and such like that. oh well. Thanks fer the input every one.

looks to be private owner but the vehicle looks clean, although im sure that doesnt ammount for much. i got a buddy who builds drag trucks to come with me to look at it. the back still has the mounts for holding the coffin. sounds like i got a good bit of research to do. that black caddy...

thats the big one. i figured parts for these things would be expensive. probably couldnt find much at a pull a part either.

its 1991 Cadillac Brougham Hearse, 103,000 miles for like 3k. Thinking of getting it and turning it into a camper. Thing is i dont know much about cars. Would this just be a really dumb idea? Do cadillacs hold up well over long distance?

if yer 18-25 years old you could try a conservation corp that offers housing. Go work in the woods for a season, save all yer cash and then travel back home by whatever means suites yer fancy. Might let you test the waters without having to totally jump ship. The California Conservation Corps...

if your at all able to, take your kit camping a few times or do some small jaunts around town and dial in what ya need. You'll figure out what works best for you pretty quick. Also, more socks.

im struggling with all of this now. you're right about empathy being finite. Took a while to learn but friends are not therapists. As you said, the most loving person can be worn down. Currently i dont have the resources to get medical help, so i keep it in, and try to manage it on my own...

its not an academic database, but khan academy is pretty neat for learning things. https://www.khanacademy.org/

vanilla ice cream with fresh apple pie, a pepperoni mushroom pizza, and a morel mushroom fried in butter, ive never had one.

that would be somethin, huge floatilla somewhere in calmer waters. I think i remember on Human Planet there was a group of people that lived entirley on the water on boats and stilt houses.

ha, traveling mechanic sounds cool. I would def have to take a course for that though. A 2 semester thing aint that bad. I dont know the first thing about cars, as ive never had one.

yeah, mostly looking at 2 semester tech certs, but honestly i dont know anything about higher education or what my options could be outside of tech school. Might look more into networking/programming,seems like maybe theres jobs you can work remotely? i just wanna learn enough to start working.

So, at the start of last year I tore my ACL working trails in cali and had to get reconstructive surgery, wound up back in Georgia and am still recovering. Doc says it can be up to 13 months before I can do something like trail work again. In the mean time ive been thinking about how my body...

cuddling a nalgene full of hot water has saved me from some pretty miserable nights in colorado

saw a dude have a heart attack and die in a station somewhere in the midwest, another guy in the nashville station before it got moved got jumped by someone witha 2x4, came back to the station with an xray and a cast on his arm. Said he was a trucker. Got taken off a bus in Atlanta after some...

Planetwalker by John Francis. such an awesome story, the dude is a constant source of inspiration for me.

thats what i was thinking about today, the bread basket is about to be buggered.

its been getting worse every year. It sucks that the US leaders cant see how this is related to climate change. If i remember right i read that inbetween 2020 and 2030 the sun will start a cycle of very low activity. The last time this happen The London River Thames froze solid and was touted as...

i think northwest arkansas, around jasper and such still has a lot of wild land ready and waiting for a homesteader. Mountain folk aint as scary as people think and despite the huge ammount of space between peoples homes there was still a strong community. One of the coolest places ive been...

honestly chipmunks are reason enough to have a bear canister/bear hang. The wee bastards have chewed through food bags and once even my camelback hose just to be spiteful im pretty sure. but yeah, Hobo Johnny has it right, any time youre in bear country you wanna be cautious. Working in...

::hungry:: with how incredible they are at hunting and foraging food it wouldnt suprise me if they werent colour blind. Color might be a good indicator of something tasty espically with bears that have been around humans.

something thats been helping me is plotting my moods in a line graph. The base of zero is how i usually feel, which not really feeling anything just blah and tired. then it goes up to +5 being the happiesr i ever felt and down to -5 being the lowest of low moods. I plot it out three times a day...

greyhound gets wild for sure haha. At the nashville station before they moved it i saw a bum hit a dude with a 2x4 in the parking lot. cops and ambulance show up, and the guy that got hit comes back with a cast, he got his arm broke. Saw a dude have a heart attack on the bus and he died before...

hey thanks man, hope Mississippi treats ya kindly

getting really ancy from being housed up due to an ACL tear and wrote this simple thing and thought I would share Link: https://youtu.be/iK6O868UN5Y

you don't think it be like that but it do

what a bizzare thing to say haha. shittin in high cotton is pretty good. I like that one.

haha, ones that don't make no sense are fun. "A day spent In a well is a day well spent." is one I like that sounds like a proverb but is just dumb nonsense.

so one of my favorite things about traveling is learning new and odd sayings, I'm sure y'all have some good ones so let's hear it! I'll kick it off with a few of my favorites that I've picked up over the years. "Its hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire." "Its comin down harder than...

pretty cheesy but modest mouses Float on. I was just starting a new adventure, walking down a road in no where south Carolina after my friend had dropped me off. Float on came on shuffle and I just lost it, I was like, crying/dancing down the road feeling the weight of those past few years just...

tarot cards are a good way to explore past lives and see what lessons they have to teach

I wish I had some better stuff to record on than my phone. or would phone recordings be fine for this?

the boonies of northwest arkansas. I spent time out there on a homestead way out in the woods. The air there is electric with energy, the copper beech trees are easy to connect with and I spent my days off exploring creeks and lime stone caverns. That place blasted my spirituality to new...

probably corny, but if you can, make something with it. write a song or several, poetry, or anything really. I feel like if you can face something down and wrestle with it till you create some you get power over it and it becomes easier to deal with.

I carried an iron wood dragon figurine for a while, ended up gifting it to some dude named leprechaun. also carry crystals that I gift to random folks when it feels right. had an origami sawn that managed to stay with me for a long while. she's in a box in Colorado now I think. my mom's ashes...

Maybe travel around and work on some different homesteads, farms and intentional communities. You can find a lot through work exchange sites. Could learn alot about what it takes to run something self sustained.

While Arkansas is a pretty dumpy state the northwest part up around jasper is really pretty. The copper beech trees in the fall are beautiful and the buffalo river is amazing as well. Hawks beak crag is a POI and not a bad hike. Might be a spot to check out as you move further west. I'm also...

If you don't mind me asking how did you wind up as a park ranger? I'm looking to get into that line of work.

A hardy walking stick is a good option too. Normally it's very non threatening but if you change your body language people tend to pick up on it. Such as slamming it into the ground as you walk or moving it in between the you and the person you're talking to.

-EDIT, oops, a wee bit drunk, didn't realize this post was a year old. Hope you've had a grand time!- Things I learned on my first time was patience really is a virtue, always trust my gut, never plan more than a few steps ahead on getting to my next destination and smiles go for miles. My...

On perception of time passing, I once read the reason that our childhoods and youth seem so long is because we're constantly being exposed to new things and our minds have all this new stuff to grab onto so our memories are more vivid and make it seem time takes longer to pass. Once we get...

I've heard about drivers straight up refusing to work anymore and abandoning the schedule. I've ridden greyhound alot, pretty much have lost count and have personally never been abandoned, though have delt with some pretty rough situations. You might be able to megabus alot of that route which...

I used helpx to farm hop from GA to CO. Had really nothing but great experiences. Pretty much got adopted by a family in arkansas haha. After backcountry with the CCC next year i plan on using that money to go walk across ireland, using helpx as i do but also to get deeper into the culture and...

Hey i appreciate it man. My C1 actually got a hold of me and shes purchased me a ticket on the greyhound and im on my way home. (Best boss ever?) Next time im in cali and in better circumstances, ill hit you up, at the very least buy ya some beer.

I carry a thick, hardy walking stick with me everywhere. It usually looks harmless and ive no problems with the cops. I had an aggro tweaker harrassing me as i was walking through nashville, so i just starting slammin the stick into the ground as i was walkin and he got the idea and took off...

EDIT: my C1 got me a ticket and im on my way home to Ga