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Hey! Sounds like a cool festival. Unfortunately we didn't go to Timisoara so I don't know anyone there. We mostly met people in Brasov and Sibiu. I do know that there's a cool black metal band based in Timisoara called Negura Bunget. I feel like they might be involved in a traditional music...

hello again! I realized I haven't made an update in over a week and I'm bored here in Kraków, drinking a beer and thought "why not make a somewhat drunk post on StP?" since we last spoke: 1. I went to Prague! it was full of American and Australian twats and everything was more expensive than the...

Romania and Hungary 5.21.16-5.31.16 Gonna try to make this one brief, but with lots of pictures! After Poenari Castle we hitch hiked to Cozia Nat'l Park: A lot of the vehicles that stop to pick you up are these "maxi-taxis" that charge a couple lei to get you from one village to another. We...

updates from Transylvania! hey guys, Bucharest was kind of a shithole and we couch surfed for a couple nights just to rest up for our journey northward. we took a train to Brașov and ended up staying for a week with some new friends. they took us cave exploring (we saw bats!) we played music...

though we have warm gear, we weren't expecting snow up there! we ended up staying at this "hut" which was actually a heated dorm style place with electricity and hot cheap food. a glass of wine for 1 lev (50 cents). a bowl of soup for 2 lev. there we met a couple Germans and a couple Israeli...

I plan on taking advantage of the allemansratt when i get to scandinavia. such an essential right to have and it's silly americans have to feel afraid of wandering in the woods.

No! I didn't, but it's not in Sofia, it's about 3 hours east. We were going up the west side of the country, but i definitely plan on going back to see more! Such a beautiful place, I feel like I could spend my life there.

Definitely taking pictures! here are some:

UPDATE: Since I last posted we left Sofia and hitch hiked north to Ledenika and saw some caves. It was 6 lev (about $3.50) for a ticket and they wouldn't let you go in without a guided tour. I wasn't really into that but the cave itself was dark, creepy and metal as fuck. Ledenika cave was...

I don't know the local languages, but I've been using every opportunity to learn. When we first got to Bulgaria I got a free town map of Bankso which has some very basic phrases on it ("hello", "thank you", "how much?"). Knowing how to say 'thank you' in the local language proved to be very...

I flew into Athens, Greece 10 days ago and wanted to start a thread documenting some observations/maybe advice for people that might be aspiring to travel to this area. I wish I had something like this before I went, so here it goes, in list form cuz why not? 1. lots of cologne and perfume in...

Queer and non binary/ gender fluid checking in. I'm often looking for other queers on the road but it's mostly straight white cis dudes. I find myself keeping quiet a lot to stay safe, which is depressing but real. If I'm hitching and someone assumes I'm female, I feel like it's better for my...

Hey, can you tell me what happened with your trip? I'm heading to Athens in April and hitching up through Bulgaria Romania and up to Estonia and Scandinavia. Would love to hear from someone who has been in Eastern Europe.

i get discouraged from traveling alone ALL THE TIME. from my family, friends, acquaintances, and from tons of strangers who think i'm some helpless confused girl who needs to be saved. it's really frustrating, and it's mostly from people who haven't traveled the way i have and don't really know...

Matt, you should come! I'll be there for sure.

I didn't know him personally but the east village has been very affected by Jewels' death. http://evgrieve.com/2013/09/rip-les-jewels.html There was a memorial for him last week in Tompkins Square Park. http://evgrieve.com/2013/09/memorial-tonight-for-les-jewels-in.html

hey, i'm planning a trip to sicily this coming february (or some time around there). where did you find those buildings? i want to check out the winery.

hey, also coming late to the convo, but i did a bike tour down the coast of California last year and wanted to contribute from my experience. for the first part of the trip i didn't have an alcohol stove - i made it through eating mostly cold food, but i would have been much happier to have hot...

and as far as gardening in maine, i've had my own 2 gardens in the past year. a couple friends and i rent a huge farmhouse on 100 acres for 200 bucks a month. they're selling it soon so we're talking about buying up some land and starting our own hobo camp/garden/co-operative shit.

i keep hearing great things about slab city, i think i'm gonna have to stop in. SF is where i'm meeting a friend who will continue the ride with me. we are going all the way to LA and then to Austin, maybe hitching if our legs are too tired. slab city could be on the way...

i'd love to find people in california who want to go down the coast doing something like this this winter. i'm in arcata now about to go to sanfran and then LA. i have one friend meeting up in san fran, but we could use more people to make it a real caravan. slab city, austin, palenque...

i use india ink and shave and make sure it's really sanitary first, made a little "tattoo gun" out of a pencil and sewing needle and some string. it only took me 45 minutes to do this one and it's healing really well. i have two others. the lines definintely don't come out as clean as a...

anyone else have home made tattoo work to share?

farmington, maine is pretty friendly and if you can't find a stranger to crash with there is unlimited camping space in the surrounding woods. i've always had good luck in Austin and northern cali (like north of arcata). fort collins, co is great if you're on bike and people are friendly.

florida! god, i hate that place. been there twice, both times i felt like i was stuck there forever and it's just sprawling strip malls and churches everywhere. i'm also not a fan of newport, rhode island.

i'd head to willow creek if i were you, not redding. people are friendlier and you're more likely to find a place you can work and live. bring a sleeping bag though..

i'm from maine originally, traveling around california and the southwest this winter. looking for meetups, advice on stealth camping and gear. mostly gonna be on bike with a little hitch hiking/ride share. spend most of my time drawing, reading, running, biking, trying to travel and meet...