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Come check out the Long Haul InfoShop in Berkeley, California! It's two blocks from Ashby Bart (train) station, and is a great place to read, attend events and network with other people! (both travelers, local homeless, and housies). As a radical space, everyone is welcome until they act like...

Oakland! (^: and Berkeley

Nothing wrong with 101! Just too slow. Ended up going up 101 and made it from Oakland to Portland in 2 days and a morning, which wasn't too bad.

the only other time I've hitched north out of SF hadda walk thru Sausalito to the 101 on-ramp north of town. Hoping some of y'all know a good spot on the 5! Preciate cha

The state uses violence every day to preserve itself, suppress rebellion and take new territory. Fascists have no liberal pretense about violence "not solving anything" and use it as a regular part of tactics.... so liberal leftists never cease to amaze me with this "never fight back" tactic...

That's my kiddo!

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Boarded-up property will no longer be synonymous with blight in Ohio. The state became the first in the nation this week to outlaw the use of plywood on abandoned and vacant properties. The prohibition was tucked into one of 28 bills signed Wednesday by Republican Gov. John...

I live really close to this & one of my neighbors was the DJ... Heard there are at least a couple people I know missing & a lot more I don't know. News helicopters over my house. :c It's an underground music warehouse where a lot of people live or live part-time.

I'm not sure how he died; but his crew from North Carolina posted about his death online. Even though he passed in late 2015 I still don't feel like asking his friends, who I don't know, the details. He was a traveler and a graffiti writer. Hit me up if you knew him. Pour one out if you didn't...

There's an old zine called Evasion by Crimethinc where the lil vegan straight-edge kid claims to have squatted a vacant room in the University of Oregon (Eugene) library on and off for a number of years, unnoticed. :0 I've thought of squatting an obscure parking garage elevator in ATX - the...

I can meet up with folks & am in Oakland looking for a squat situation soon. Following a lead on a peninsula near SF that a friend told me about that used to be a squatter community

@Matt Derrick Sorry, shouldnt've been lazy and just posted the links in the original thread. http://www.autobusesamericanos.com.mx/ http://tornadobus.com/ http://www.elexpreso.net/

@Matt Derrick I looked up Americanos, Tornad' and El Expresso bus lines which all have stops in San Antonio or Austin but none go anywhere west of el paso- it looks like you could take them east to arkansas, Missouri, Georgia, or north Carolina or anywhere in Mexico. Didn't check out the prices...

I'm going from Austin,TX to Oakland, CA with more stuff than I can hitch with so I'm taking a bus- I've seen the Mexican us lines run through town and my friend Cesar in the kitchen I worked at told me they are way cheaper than greyhounds and run faster- I'm curious if any of you have ridden...

I coulda been clearer - I posted this 'cause I think it's fuckin scary and awful, not 'cause getting the homeless off the streets gives me a boner or something :0

http://nypost.com/2015/08/10/engineer-develops-map-the-homeless-app/ New Yorkers can now try to help tackle the city’s homeless problem with a new app. David Fox, a 25-year-old data engineer from Murray Hill, developed Map the Homeless after getting fed up with transients aggressively begging...

These motherfuckers had nazi tattoos and were displaying them for everyone to see - that's enough to warrant a beating. Fascists don't get a free pass - their ideology and the actions of organizations and individuals that champion it have terrorized black and brown communities in the U.S. and...

SIX INVOLVED IN STABBING AT TRAILER SPACE RECORD SHOP - KXAN NEWS http://kxan.com/2015/08/06/six-involved-in-stabbing-at-trailer-space-record-shop/ "AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin police said multiple people were stabbed after a brawl that spawned from heckling at an East Austin venue. Austin Police...

I'd describe 'em as early 2000's Northwest pirate punk. c: Lead singer later became the lead singer of Modest Mouse :O Check 'em out

Some kids I met when I was camping there told me about a little cabin they found in the woods - they said they found a bike tied outside and heard smelt fire and decided to stay away - wonder if this was the one? Probably more than one of these shacks out there

Thought I'd throw this up for anyone who can get down with some angsty folk "punk" :)

Booze has long been a drug of oppression because it gives the rabble something to do other than get together and organize in their community. Maybe a stretch, but drugs have been used this way many times by capitalist governments. England used to ship vast quantities of opium to China, getting...

After a long day of hitching (Pacifica, CA > Santa Cruz > CA > Monterey CA and a longer day of hiking through Monterey to get to a good hitch-out spot, my road dog and I decided to set up camp off of the highway in some woods. On our way into the bush we met an old bum named Merle who chatted us...

Both sides of the argument have sound arguments... It's a sticky situation whether they decide to stay squatter or go legit and depends greatly on the response of the government.

Thank you for posting this. Fuck yeah.

There's a tent city on Austin, but last I heard they did not have any waste-removal. It's not an anarchist "occupy" kind of thing, it's homeless people trying to survive kind of thing. Not sure where it's located, but if you google "Austin Street Challenger" and contact them, they'll know where...

I don't condemn or condone drug use. I believe it's a personal decision until you start harming others. I smoke weed and drink occasionally. You should always be conscious of what you're doing with your body and what you want from it. Gotta say though, weed and booze cost me money, time...

Don't smoke out of aluminum. It is not a safe metal to use as a pipe. Try to minimize the amount of butane you inhale by using a candle or "hemp wick". DRINK HELLA WATER.

Yeah this was before I was a traveler in my hometown... Not proud it exists haha

Winter traveling: bring you a warm sleeping bag (0 degrees Fahrenheit), good boots, and a light backpack with camping gear. Try for 30 pounds. Get South. Make sure 145% waterproof, including your pack and its contents. Bring a small tent or bivy sack or tarp. Not every tent is waterproof - test...

Wanna pick a spot on BLM land, close to a yard and highway... Natural water, good campsite. There's my 2 cents. Can't plan my whereabouts this year but intend to be traveling for the bulk of it and would love to show.

I never want to travel with someone who can't deal with traveling alone again. Makes them totally reliant on you in a way that seems unerringly like parenthood.

I know a few folks who go to the hitchgatherings. Talked to a TheWindAndRain who started it in the US and he says there won't be one this year unless more people show interest. Reddit.com/r/hitchhiking will have more folks who're aware of the hitchgathering.

Sounds like a bum camp to me. If you're really interested go talk to him, bring booze and a knife :) diplomacy

Best luck! Post pix here for the cyberpunx

I was eating with some shwilly kids once and an inebriated punk spent nearly 10 minutes scraping a can on concrete trying to show me "the real man way to open a can." He didn't figure it out and we ended up using my can opener :') Edit: so now I know wtf this kid was trying to do

The public education system is a bunk hoop we jump through but the piece of paper isn't COMPLETELY useless in some realms of society. Sticking it out in school may be wise. I did, with great fucking contempt. Also, I've met a lot of homeless street kids and travelers who are minors and they...

Haha that's so SF, nice yarn :)

I wore my docs for 6 months on the road, and I'd used them regularly for a year before. Mine were the old Made in England kind that kids love... Can't say I liked wearing em. They're not kind to the feet like good hiking boots, shoes. I think they're fashion boots as Matt said. Some kids really...

Yeah William S. Burroughs wrote an intro to one edition!

This is my first time reading a full-length book on a screen actually! Hurts my eyes after a while but its cheap :'/ bah I'm a sell-out

I've been traveling with a military bivy for six months and it was great except: one night awoke sharing my bivy with a rat. (SFO). 2) I awoke to loud growling a few feet away which persisted after yelling at the top of my lungs for several minutes. (Crescent City, CA. The barrier between you...

Jack Black, a reformed yegg who spent his life tramping America as a burglar/safecracker in the age of the Old West bum wrote an autobiography called "You Can't Win". It's a sobering and honest story full of amazing historical tidbits about what jail, the rails, cops, burgling was like in the...

I've heard this word a lot on the road, occasionally in reference to yers truly, and always with a characteristic tone of disgust. Here're some different meanings of the word as I inferred 'em. Trustafarian: 1) A person, usually a naiive young white male, whose rich parents pay for them to...

There's an article in the zine "Mostly True" by Bill Daniel where a 'bo fills his jacket with magnets to catch a train on the fly. In the next yard he just detaches from the train and walks blissfully away. <3 but it'spretty tongue in cheek.

Thanks, that's good to hear!

I'm planning on forging a tomahawk head that slips on and off of handles of any length. A train Graff writer i met would carry a tomahawk head and handle separately in a satchel - both are legal to carry so long as they're not attached. I'm curious whether this is true everywhere? I'd make a...

I met a hobbit in garberville and later arcata. Short man, missing teeth, dready, older. Didn't seem like a jackroller but don't know him well. If were talking about the same guy he spends most of his time between garberville and SoCal beaches. Ask a street kid in Garber

I use a Mosin Nagant ammo pouch, they're waterproof and you can open em one handed. They're like six bucks on eBay - Soviet WW2