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Hi folks, it's been a while. My "home on wheels" broke down last October. As a result, I decided to give the backpacking lifestyle a try. Took what I could carry and gave the rest away.  Pros: No registration, insurance, other responsibilities and worries of vehicle ownership. Less dependence...

The use of mind-altering substances carries a great stigma in society, but let's face it; from coffee to alcohol to tobacco to cannabis to prescription meds, most of us are under the influence of some drug at least once in a while. So let's have an open discussion about them! Alcohol is one of...

Hi everyone from the dry and smoky (but still beautiful)town of Buena Vista, Colorado. I quit this forum eighteen months ago, deciding to leave the nomadic life for a more conventional lifestyle in Arizona. After three months, I was getting nowhere, so I headed up to Buena Vista to work like a...

Say you were a twenty-something single full timer, sleeping in a jalopy SUV, virtually no possessions of value. Completely self-reliant, no fixed income. You can work hard, but despise the "grind" to the core of your being. Alternative lifestyles provide meaning and purpose to life, but no...

Howdy! :) Back about nine months ago, I told myself that my nomad phase was over, and my future was gonna be renting a place and holding down a full-time job. Like a normal person. (Unlike most of y'all, I went straight from college to sleeping in my SUV and wandering the country. Summers were...