Has anyone else here traveled around living in a backpack for a while? What about car/van life? What are your experiences and if you're still doing it what are your plans for the next year? I've been doing it for 5 years straight after my Mom passed and I had no ties left to keep me involved with society or my hometown much. Now I'm renting a large property and house, working on my hobbies and profitable skills and saving up cash for when I inevitably dip out back into the world again this spring. I'm getting a backpack set up and possibly a 4runner. I just don't know where I want to go though anymore, I've been all over the US a few times and I hate crossing the continental divide, I'm probably going to stay in the PNW for a while until something interesting draws me east, but I'm also considering biting the cost of a passport to go start traveling in other countries too.
>>2855257Here's a question, if you've been doing it out of necessity for five years, why wouldn't you wanna just settle down finally?
>>2855260I did it out of choice, I had a comfortable job and a small inheritance at the time. I chose to piss it away and go live broke and homeless as a pilgrimage and to escape the life I had prior. I've never been happier in those times traveling as any other time in my life, and the lifestyle fits everything about me like a glove. Living in a house causes me to fester and become depressed.
>>2855267kek so you were just on an extended vacation, your OP post implies that you did something actually interesting.
>>2855269Well I pretty much made it a permanent holiday now, my situation is temporary.
>>2855257Are you the guy that posted moms dildos after she passed?
>>2855272No, but I saw that.
>>2855274Well good luck with whatever you're doing.
>>2855257I went backpacking for a year back when I was 17 and did the vanlife thing as a PanAmerican road trip for my honeymoon.More settled now though.
I started a 'boutta be homeless' thread here over 10 years ago now and actually followed through with the one way ticket and a backpack/sleeping bag thing, did that for a few years and then got an RV. On my third RV now after slightly upgrading a few years every time. /out/ lore dump incoming We used to have vanlife/hobo generals here on /out/ started by this other guy who went by busanon, the threads were some of the fastest and only ones to hit bump limits. Busanon recognized my posts here and said we met years ago in Montana when I was hitchhiking and he was rubbertramping, we met up later in Colorado because of these threads but I blew his bus up in Nebraska(it overheated while I was driving) and continued hitchhiking while he stayed there in Nebraska. Jessie had a mysterious benefactor named Mike who ended up paying for Busanon to fix the bus and move it to Oklahoma, where Busanon's partner and kids were already staying in a duplex owned by Mike while Busanon picked me up in Colorado. A year or so after the bus blew up in Nebraska, Busanon and Mike invited us(my partner and our baby in our RV) out to stay on Mike's property in Oklahoma. Mike turned out to be Scroton, a jannie on multiple boards and basically a rich weirdo psychopath. Busanon had been larping like a hardcore trainhopper and traveler in every thread this entire time and Scroton/Mike had been paying him an allowance to hang out in Tulsa and be his friend, a free duplex and a car to drive around in to make extra money panhandling at gas stations. Meanwhile, Mike is running every cult play in the book to isolate my wife and I at his property north of the city and it turns out he is basically samefagging a dozen threads at once pretending to be different people arguing with each other - you might recognize him as the "stab your dog" poster. From what I gathered it went like this; Busanon baited these greens into coming to be under Mike's thumb and so he could "take care of them"
>>2855328That's pretty weird and fucked up but the longer I've been traveling the more I've seen of shit like that. I haven't been on /out/ in a while so I don't remember Busanon. I probably met him IRL too though, he sounds like Useless but Useless runs the suicide prevention bus and it exploded due to his shitty psychopathic driving. I've learned if someone is super rich they're usually also incredibly fucked in the head and can mask it well. Even if they're not, I've also learned a lot of money also calls some hardcore drama in your life even if it has nothing to do with you, so I avoid it. There's a billionaire in SoCal who owns a large ranch and farm, his wife is some Japanese woman who is way richer than him. He enjoys recruiting a bunch of people to go do acid on his farm while he watched and enjoys the show from his balcony. That's already really sketchy to me, but the guy who told me about this said he is also one of those guys who is incredibly jealous to point of being violent and his wife is literally trying to fuck every dude he brings there, and it's hard to deny her because she's a multi-billionaire and more powerful than him but he'll probably have you killed for doing it.
>>2855257>Has anyone else here traveled around living in a backpack for a while?Back when I was 25, I spent a few months without a fixed address. I ended up hitchhiking from Montréal to Victoria and back. Did it again the next summer.First trip all I had was a plastic sheet. I got really lucky - it only rained twice. Mind you I stayed with my Aunt and my brother while in BC. That said, it seems that September is BC's best kept secret. You are alone on beaches and inna woods but it's mostly dry.
>>2855355It's like that almost the entire coast down, too. I've illegally crossed up into BC a few times to see a Mountie friend who lives there and it's probably the most gorgeous place I've ever been, each time I went it was monarch season and they covered literally everything, I woke up in my tent one morning to find them all over. I heard that BC wants to become another state to America and I'd be all for that if it weren't for the fact that American tweakers would probably shoot up the highway to flood that place and turn it into a shithole quick.
Haha whoopsie tripped and bumped the thred
>>2855257I live in my car for a couple months in the winter since I work a seasonal job. Ill be living in my car in BC and skiing Fernie and Kicking Horse for the time being. Planning to do a bit more back country this season if the avalanche danger is tame, last season it was generally high avy danger so I didnt get to do as much as I had hoped.
>/out/ moving really fast whoopsie
Eco-autarky obsessed bikepacking dirtbag here. Onoy been here for a week. Fascinating thread. Jannies have banned me twice a day since i started posting here. Yes it was me that spammed Nigger in one thread and threatened conservation officers in another. Dont care.
>>2857395I should also add fhat the only reason i spammed nigger and threatened conservation officers is necause I was mad at jannies banning me twice a day for no reason. The fuck is their problem?
>>2857398Some boards jannies are literally the equivalent of reddit mods and have been hired from reddit. Back in the day I use to be on the IIRC regularly and the mods have always been faggots, especially that dratted John Redcorn. How's bikepacking? I have a pretty heavy backpack because I lot to carry a lot of creature comforts, and I've seriously considered getting a bike instead of a car just to distribute weight better and get further faster without spending time trying to get gas and parking.
>>2857421Also how often do you have to do bike maintenance and how gnarly can it get?
>>2857421>>2857422Bikepacking and living a nomadic lifestyle is great. Im about to embark again except this time i want to go farther into the wilderness. Basically, it is tonnes of fun. Very fun with a crossbow. Bring a rod but you dont have to since poaching is easy. I like going on the unpaved paths deep in the wilderness with a single track trailer. There are different cargo racks for the front or rear axle. I actually carry almost no weight on my back except my crossbow generally just incase of shit bears. I havent killed a bear yet because i didnt know exactly what to do with the entire carcas but now that i know, im going for one.... In regards to repairing the bike. You should invest in good tires. Like thick ones. Sometimes something might happen like a flat or broken spoke, no big deal. Its just a bike. The best prevention is a well maintained bike. Only a seized crank in the middle of nowhere is an absolute disaster but you should be able to tell when your crank is going. You can feel it. Create a bike repair kit and tote it on a single track trailer behind your bike with some other stuff. Anyways wnough from me.
>>2857437Ohhh I've wanted to take a crossbow on the road for a while. I've been hunting using snares and getting up close to small deer with a 9mm pistol and whacking them like Tony. A bike would certainly let me do that much less encumbered. I've seen a lot of bikepackers with motorized bikes and every time I've seen them they're working on the bike and cussing a lot, so I think I'd probably just get a normal bike. Thanks for the input.
