Hillbilly Castro
Well-known member
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 currently outfitting it with a woodstove and insulation, with a mattress, a hammock, and carpeted floor space.
Why am I in the middle of the region with the worst winters in the lower 48 during the winter? Because I need a new challenge. I think that we find the best in ourselves when we have something to overcome, some kind of crazy challenge that brings out the superhuman inside of us. While that has, for a few years, consisted of sleepless nights at truckstops, evading cops in cities, flying high-speed across the country in search of love and battles with vulgar forces of authority, "paying my dues" as a traveler, now, I want a different challenge. The winter demands a human be strong and smart and careful. While I love lazing about on the beach or in Slab City, or in their social equivalent in college towns, where things are comfortable, I want to experiment with harsher environments. Consistently, I have found that the highest quality weirdos and radicals very often come from regions and areas where they are forced to overcome conservative culture, hard weather, and intense poverty. While I don't think anyone should be forced to deal with this stuff, I see value in willingly submitting to it as a way to make oneself more spiritually and intellectually robust.
My goal? Stuff my little trailer with brilliant vagabonds of the spirit, as many books as we can muster, and create a temporary autonomous zone for those who crave a community of intellectuals who push each other to greater heights existentially. My experience at the Jamboree was kind of like this: endless discussions with people who have tackled the "creative nothing" with artistic finesse, each in a way that is unique to them, people who understand that life is worth nothing, and that for this reason, it is a canvas not to be wasted. I left thinking how great it'd be to have a more sustained and focused version of this (with a little less whiskey). I welcome everyone who thinks they could benefit from a change of pace, to get off the road for a day or a season to pursue something different. I will be working on writing a book, and have purchased a bicycle motor and studded tires for my beach cruiser, so I'll be doing a lot of motorized winter touring to see friends throughout the state. The building will be my house, and free for the sleeping, but it will be, during the day, a space where ideas can be discussed, projects can be hatched, and so forth. Think of it as a mini long-term jamboree oriented around the goal of creating a crew of anarchists who "do" as much as they "think".
Let me know if you want to kick it for a while, and obviously if you find yourself in that area (somehow) during the winter, you're welcome to come through. And also if you're a rural punk in the northeast doing rad shit, I want to know about it. I already met some folks in Maine this summer, but def reach out if yer out there in NY-VT-MA-NH as well!
Thanks
I'm posted up somewhere between I-90 and the Canadian Border in a little trailer that is ancient. I'm currently outfitting it with a woodstove and insulation, with a mattress, a hammock, and carpeted floor space.
Why am I in the middle of the region with the worst winters in the lower 48 during the winter? Because I need a new challenge. I think that we find the best in ourselves when we have something to overcome, some kind of crazy challenge that brings out the superhuman inside of us. While that has, for a few years, consisted of sleepless nights at truckstops, evading cops in cities, flying high-speed across the country in search of love and battles with vulgar forces of authority, "paying my dues" as a traveler, now, I want a different challenge. The winter demands a human be strong and smart and careful. While I love lazing about on the beach or in Slab City, or in their social equivalent in college towns, where things are comfortable, I want to experiment with harsher environments. Consistently, I have found that the highest quality weirdos and radicals very often come from regions and areas where they are forced to overcome conservative culture, hard weather, and intense poverty. While I don't think anyone should be forced to deal with this stuff, I see value in willingly submitting to it as a way to make oneself more spiritually and intellectually robust.
My goal? Stuff my little trailer with brilliant vagabonds of the spirit, as many books as we can muster, and create a temporary autonomous zone for those who crave a community of intellectuals who push each other to greater heights existentially. My experience at the Jamboree was kind of like this: endless discussions with people who have tackled the "creative nothing" with artistic finesse, each in a way that is unique to them, people who understand that life is worth nothing, and that for this reason, it is a canvas not to be wasted. I left thinking how great it'd be to have a more sustained and focused version of this (with a little less whiskey). I welcome everyone who thinks they could benefit from a change of pace, to get off the road for a day or a season to pursue something different. I will be working on writing a book, and have purchased a bicycle motor and studded tires for my beach cruiser, so I'll be doing a lot of motorized winter touring to see friends throughout the state. The building will be my house, and free for the sleeping, but it will be, during the day, a space where ideas can be discussed, projects can be hatched, and so forth. Think of it as a mini long-term jamboree oriented around the goal of creating a crew of anarchists who "do" as much as they "think".
Let me know if you want to kick it for a while, and obviously if you find yourself in that area (somehow) during the winter, you're welcome to come through. And also if you're a rural punk in the northeast doing rad shit, I want to know about it. I already met some folks in Maine this summer, but def reach out if yer out there in NY-VT-MA-NH as well!
Thanks
