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I just bought this: It's 30" wide and it came in the mail today; it's got to be the most comfortable pad I've ever owned. It's more comfortable than a regular bed. Weighing in at 1lb 12oz, it's hefty, but it packs down small, and seems to be worth the weight. I've been skeptical of air pads...

Was curious about experiences with this. I've got a spot I know of by some nice moving water where I know virtually no one ever goes. It's close enough to resources - library, bar, post office, places to find a day's work, etc - but very seldom traveled. It's a stream valley with extremely steep...

I felt that I risked derailing the "Matt Derrick is a Fascist" thread with a discussion that emerged on identity politics, so I thought I'd move my reply over here. Feel free to join in. Thanks for the engaging reply. Obviously, to forego the use of "mammals" and "amphibians" as categories is...

Howdy! It's been a long winter, and I'm looking forward to celebrating spring with some like-minded souls. I was chatting with some people in an anti-civ forum I frequent, and we were lamenting of the ways in which our perspective has alienated us from other people, even within the "anarchist"...

http://www.ihpva.org/home/ These guys are going to be meeting up and doing a speed run through the high desert in NV in a week or so. They've had fairing-covered recumbent bikes do 70+mph there before, entirely powered by the human body. I'm moving too slow to make it there in time...

Because why not?

Anyone get into this mode of bike life? Right now I have a Catrike road.. The laid back position is incredibly comfortable, and the rider is able to draw an immense amount of power from against the seat. Hills are not the easiest until one gets their 'recumbent legs' and highway visibility to...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jan/15/gun-laws-united-states I am considering getting an Arizona concealed carry permit this year, a permit which is recognized by some 37 states, and 3 of the non-recognizing states are open carry states. That is all but ten states in which I...

imgur.com/a/ClCak Added to my old blog I'm reviving after 4 years: https://portablehomestead.wordpress.com

Pretty good video about installing a CB on your bike. I think I may install this on my motorized recumbent trike so that I have the option of being social anywhere I'm at, or radioing for help / weather updates, or maybe even finding some work (?). I even wonder whether, as a bike tourer, it'd...

Some of you may know this man.... the king of the camp kitchen, writer of sake-drunken rants, and master of homegrown scholarship... he is currently passed out on our new rug, a moosehead ale in hand.... A wild @creature in his natural habitat!

This my most recent endeavor: The Rust Temple. A warehouse space for artists, dropouts, survivalists, cyberpunks, and all manner of freaks to congregate and create whatever they please. Starting at $80 monthly, we're looking for folks to fill the space with, and we have a LOT of room. We're...

WHO'S the lord of snickers bars, the drive-thru pigeon pimp, pumping down America's streets, slick with grease and tanning lotion, the lord of drag queens and mountain dew, the gasoline-sluggin' bastard who's gotchya, no matter what? YOU'VE heard of the Godfather, well baby, forget all that -...

1547: "If it happens that a vagabond has been idling about for three days, he is to be taken to his birthplace, branded with a red-hot iron with the letter V on the breast and be set to work, in chains, in the streets or at some other labour."...

From a Yelp review, not my writing: An island where patience is a virtue Patience Island is a small, very uninhabited island of a little over 200 acres. I say very uninhabited because nobody goes here. It's only about 500 or so feet away from the north part of Prudence Island and although...

Homepage Sign in / Sign up Nina Ray Dec 5, 2016 A World Without Rape If we really want to end sexual violence, we need to think more about support and less about punishment. Two weeks ago I saw the man who raped my best friend. I hadn’t seen his face since right before it happened a year and a...

I have, eh, maybe $500. And I have a typewriter with which I can write poems in the street for money (in English). Should I get more if I intend to bike or hitch around indefinitely in Europe?

Here's a whole bunch of photos to check out from some recent winter journies with a bunch of StP folks. @Notmyname @LeeenPocket @Yancwhatchuwanttho

thinking of crossing the border in McAllen to Reynosa, en route to central america. The region of south Texas seems like a mystery to me, particularly around the gulf. Anyone been? What is going on down there? Also: are the small-town cops really as harsh as I've heard?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1292933/How-help-17-pocket-jacket-I-beat-Ryanair-game.html How (with the help of a 17-pocket jacket) I beat Ryanair at their own game By VINCENT GRAFF UPDATED: 07:49 EST, 8 July 2010 28 View comments Deep down, I know I'm doing nothing wrong...

Howdy everybody. I have felt visceral disgust at the white shit that surrounds me and everything up here in the woods of Upstate New York - the locals call it "snow". Even just going out for a smoke becomes a military operation. My desert boots have soaked to the core, and I start to think: I am...

What do we do?

Howdy folks. This is on offer as long as I am in the area, which as far as I can tell, I'll be here a while, probably the whole winter unless something changes (and things do change often!). I'm posted up somewhere between I-90 and the Canadian Border in a little trailer that is ancient. I'm...

Thought I'd put a line out, as it's a great frickin deal. I long didn't consider Europe because of cost but with this I definitely realize I can do it.

I'm doing my "times are good financially" gear buying and getting some really dope stuff that will improve my quality of living right now and I found this: http://www.titaniumgoat.com/MKettle.html 13 oz, it's a 4"x7" water jacketed woodstove. It boils a pint of water in 6 to 8 minutes - for...

I found these badass helicopter cargo nets from browsing around army suplus shit on ebay, with a 2200 pound load, 14'6" both ways, for $60. I'm about to stay for a couple months (???) in Brooklyn and was pretty impressed with an article from the NYT I found...

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lupus-dragonowl-against-identity-politics what do you think?

So I'm housed up at my cousin's for a sec to do some work before going back to the desert and I found some weird shit in the family army surplus stock and am re-doing my setup. I'm not sure if I'm on some straight wingnut shit with this idea, but it's so damn comfortable I'm likely to stick with...

Just like the title says. Put your gear in the stroller, gas it up, and cruise. You'd ride across America as one of the most ridiculous loons in history but you'd be legal (?) And have a good time? What could possibly go wrong? It'd be cheap too. Ever seen anyone do this? Glaring flaws?

https://www.co.essex.ny.us/AdirondackRegionalRideShare/Rides.aspx Pretty neat resource if you are way upstate or in the adirondacks, particularly for a long period of time. Haven't tried the emails yet so I can't tell if they're up to date, but might be useful to some of y'all.

I've traveled solo for the last three years, mostly hitchhiking, and mostly moving very fast. In the last year, I've started to feel this very dissociative, 'haunted' feeling when I'm on the move. I'll see families of normal people doing their thing and I'll feel this weird tinge of jealousy...

link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14H8SbfwKHN6PXsYCd_h3u5jPrjImctTdaVRrkzDBZCs/edit?usp=sharing It's a bit goofy but it's wicked fun to write. I've always had friends and fam ask why I didn't write about travels or document them in some way and I think this sort of shit is the closest...

I just got back from hitching the west and am trying to hole up and do some academic work and art now, to have a little space of my own while my partner finishes college. I had been thinking about renting some land and putting up a tipi or a camper on it, but renting land is proving to be a pain...

Just wondering if anyone has done or seen this done?

I got a pretty wild idea working out here in W. MA. I've built my second bicycle trailer mobile home and am refining it this month to be stronger and lighter. It's eight feet long, two and a half feet wide (will be three feet wide after I overhaul it), and three and a half feet tall. I built it...

Anyone have any info? I'm livin here a half hour north of Rome NY on the Erie Canal and I'm thinking about going into town and lurking around docks and locks for a ride to Buffalo NY. Any information on boat hitching on inland waterways would be helpful. Thanks

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/nyregion/22about.html Check this article out, I'd be interested in hearing more accounts of squatting in plain sight. Granted, he didn't live there, but I'm talking about this sort of thing AND living there. I've always dreamed of finding a tucked-away...