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i was in stockton waiting for a train a few weeks ago(fuck that spot in the ccg for morman if yr heading S, it's only good for trains headed up to oroville and on). anyway, back to subject, waitin in a big vacant lot, kinna nice neighborhood actually, i had a thought- why not just pull...

I had a couple days to kill in the Quincy area so I thumbed it to Reno in a rainstorm ( it was to only keep raining), trying in vain to find a childhood friend of mine, ending up getting a Motel 6 and catching up on the lovely phenomenon known as cable TV. I showed up at court as I was...

hey anybody ever eaten rattlesnake, copperheads etc, how do you kill them? i knew a guy who'd pin their head w/ a stick, i'm really not a fan of getting that close to copperheads but maybe my fear is misplaced? are they likely to slinkie towards you and bite your ankle, or will they...

For some reason I can't cut 'n' paste the url, anyway this dude got declared not guilty by reason of insanity a few days ago. Cannibalism revealed Greyhound bus killer beheads victim and then eats flesh (7) August 3, 2008, 10:10 In a turn of events that belong nowhere but perhaps a horror...

So I left off getting into Havre, I managed to find CC Rider who was partying hard she introduced me to this kid Les, these girls Tania and Sky and this blackfoot kid she called Lengua because he always talked with his tongue, his real name was name was Sammy and she gave him a really hard...

I'm gonna try out keeping a little online travelogue- here goes. Snowmaking had finally started to make sense to me and i had a nice house to stay in with my buddies, I started thinking about getting a vehicle for the 1st time in a while as it's just so damn hard to live in the country...

yeah damn just needed to vent. I've living up here in NH for a couple months working here and Boston and living out in the woods in a log cabin, been trying to hold out until new year's so i can shoot fireworks with the dozens of old friends i know will show up. anyway, things are just going...

Well sad news I just found out my buddy 1/4 of the Way died in a car crash in New Zealand, he hiked the AT with me and drove a car hauler for SWIFT, drove trucks for KBR over in Iraq, somehow escaped death there to die happy as a clam in NZ. Just goes to show you can walk through fire and die...

anybody have experience building these? i'm thinking of a) be building a simple A-frame, or b) taking a van and using a tractor-mounted winch on my brother's tractor to winch the van, hopefully a stripped VW bus, up onto a platform, i'm thinking old telephone poles for the platform. i've got...

Well I rolled into the state this time hitching from PDX, it went pretty cool, met nice people and drank a lot of coffee, landed in Butte just in time for the free national folk festival. A lot of awesome music and I stayed in the mission eating awesome food and resting my significantly weary...

alright........ sigh..... i am not going to mention person's name but if he/she reads this i am sure they'll know it's them. I headed from WRJ vermont up to MTL w/ 4 other people, ran into 2 making money in town, another 2 popped their heads up later(came in on the next train), this is...

Yo, this state is the shit. Old skool FTRA, wrecking crew, drunk blackfeet, wind, bald eagles, havre ain't half as bad as people say but just don't get caught. it's the wild wild west out there. as will smith would say "bienvenidos a montana" :D i can't wait to go back.

yeah arrow maybe ya know something about this... i remember reading once the state of alaska gets so much $ in oil revenues that they don't tax 'em-but instead pay every resident 1500 bucks a year once they've lived there for at least a year does this still happen? if so, i got a freind who's...

so i was hitching one day in a pouring rainstorm and this dumpy little guy in a car decked out w' redsox memorabilia, he even has all sox logo wear on, gives me a ride 30 miles, of course out of his way. it turns out his major life accomplishment was being towel managwer of a local baseball...

just wanted to share this, i just finalized that i'm donating a kidney next winter in the general vein that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but, more importantly, i believe that if you give, you get. call me a hippie but the i've seen enough evidence in my short time to believe...

my favorite last few places urban camping are: on boats in seaside towns, or even stored on boat trailer/dealership in cardboard dumpsters (way warm, been lucky so far but try not to do so on sunday nites) on top of high ass water tower-sick view in boxcar even if not riding most trainyard...

so this isn't quite a full story. 2 friends and i just finished a 5-week trip that took us from vermont down to baja mexico and up to van here. i'm planning to post some stories here about various crazy stuff that happened to us road-tripping, hitchhiking and biking. but i'm pretty dished right...

So I've been meaning to write this for a while and now I've got some time. Be aware that all rail-related info talked about here is pretty easy to acquire without my half-assed help. This whole story starts when me and my homie Fidel were doing some hiking along the Appalachian Trail in...

coming up from miami last month i got a ride with this guy rick who had his harley in his semi-trailer. when he didn't have any moving jobs lined up he'd pull her out and go revving around the countryside. when he picked me up he'd just gone to sturgis with his yamaha and was about to go to...

so i'm in israel. and it's amazing beyond my wildest dreams. i would really love to ride trains here but...... this entire country is guarded (everything important) by really canny israelis w/ M-16's . and i' m sure any railyard is also. there's a good possibility of being mistaken...