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@bote — I won't try to sugarcoat it, the pay rate is what you'd call "nominal." The way it shakes out is, if you write a story, say, 8,000 words long (which turns out to be about 16 printed pages), you get 8,000 × 0.0025 = 20 bucks. You're not going to get rich off it, and that's sort of how it...

I haven't been on here much over the years, but I've been starting this new project and I thought of you folks. I'm publishing a short story magazine called New Maps. (Yeah, I'm apparently a publisher. It's weird to realize.) And I know some of you on this site are seriously creative and good...

Always wished a nickname would stick for me. Maybe someday yet. I sorta-kinda made up a nickname for myself but it felt weird asking people to call me that, and it never went far. Funny enough, the one person who uses it for me is a guy called Stick. He apparently has a friend called Donut. My...

Or even, if you let them cool off awhile, put them in your sleeping bag! (Probably want to wrap them in cloth of some sort, preferably cloth you don't mind getting dirty)

You know. It's important to keep all danglies stowed.

Yeah, it was a bad idea, but I didn't have enough danglies on my pack for that to be one of the worries.

I waited for a train from Eugene to Portland for many hours one night with a friend, behind what I guess was the old Tazo Tea factory. It got to where I would just climb on and off the slow passing trains to relieve the boredom a little. But when we finally did find a train with something...

A good sleeping bag with a sleeping pad. If you don't have a tent (like I didn't for a while after I lost my poles) you can almost always find some shelter to sleep under. But if you don't have a sleeping bag, you'd better have money for a hostel or some friends in the area. And those sure...

John Houx said it pretty well: "I told them all, 'I'll go explorin Every desert and every kingdom I can find.' They said, 'What for? The whole world's borin, And you've seen it all before on the TV.' So by myself, alone and ramblin, In a boxcar as the rails rolled along. Soon my cell phone...

I gave myself five days to get from Berlin to Lisbon, about 1800 miles. I wasn't doing too great the first day, since I only got to the other side of Germany, and then it started getting dark, which always means crap hitchhiking. Except today! Because I found two old Norwegian guys who were on...

Yeah, I hadn't thought of that... I suppose it wasn't just oil that created the space for them to develop, but also globalization.

America is the place where the most insanely powerful institutions in the world came into being. Microsoft, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Exxon-Mobil, JPMorgan Chase, Walmart, hundreds more. More have arisen in other countries (BP, Hyundai, Gazprom, RBS), but America is the spiritual home of the...

My first ride earns about as few punk points as possible, if we're measuring those. I was a college student at the time. (That right there takes off about 90% of any possible points I could earn.) A UP shortline runs right through the middle of campus, and the Iowa Interstate (IAIS) intersects...

Sounds pretty reasonable. I'm hoping soon to invent a way to fold a tarp that turns it into a tent and doesn't need any staking. But if it turns out too difficult I'll just start looking for a no-stake tent, just in case. I'm in a place where there's a monsoon season, and I have access to a...

So I'm going to be heading out onto the road for the first real time starting about September. I can hold my own at climbing up buildings, so I've been planning on doing a lot of my camping on top of roofs. But I haven't actually done that yet, so I keep wondering a couple things about it. Maybe...

The thing is, he might know some words that are sort of obscure, but you can tell he doesn't really know them - which is why I told him to lookup "bereft", because he used it completely wrong. I can imagine him going through a thesaurus figuring out what word sounds the ponciest and then just...

This guy thinks he's pretty important. He thinks he's important enough that people here care what he thinks of them! Darth Ruha, if you desire to match wits against me in a contest of recondite discourse, I shall triumph any day with one hand fastened behind my back. Until that time, look up...

That would be awesome, actually. I've lent the book to a few of my friends who may or may not come along with me for some of my summer, and it'd be good to let them know where the book isn't as on-the-money as we need it to be.

I haven't done anything you could legitimately call squatting yet. I've camped while employed at a summer camp, but that doesn't really count (though at least the trips weren't just overnight deals - my longest were 5 days). It's because I didn't really get much of an interest in it until this...

I'm pretty far away from any coasts here in the middle of Iowa. When I'm not at college I live in Cincinnati. I haven't declared a major yet, but it's probably going to be anthropology. I'm often pretty indecisive. I didn't pick which college I was going to until halfway through the day the...

Hello! I found this forum a little while ago, and joined today to get some trainhopping advice. It looks like a great place, and I'll probably come to various parts of it a good amount. I'm currently in college. I plan to use my college education to pay for my college education and then duck...