Boondocking universal symbol or flag?

[MdesDJ]

Thats old Hobo code markings from the link I shared earlier in the thread

Gotcha! That's a great resource. I missed the link at first glance. Thanks for reminding me.

 

[MdesDJ]

Hello again - I gathered everything you and others shared and turned it into The Boondocking Icon Project. It's an experiment and the main intent is to continue the conversation rather than impose an icon. Enjoy!

https://www.trischlerdesign.com/blog/2020/the-boondocking-icon-project

 

[nature lover]

mdesdj - lnteresting - as a member of the plain community (Amish Mennonite brethren)I have seen academics choose all sorts of minor little things about our people to study. students need to have a project. there was one women asked Me To help her do a study on the “Kellie Duke” That’s a Pennsylvania German for “kitchen towel”. Years ago when cooking utensils were hung on the wall the custom of putting a towel up to keep the Dirty spoons and ladles from staining the wall. As many things in our culture it didn’t start with us we just continued it longer than other cultures. Changes in our culture happens much slower than they do in others. The kitchen towel disappeared from the modern people quicker than it did from our people. So the academics came along Noticed it and thought it might have some cultural significance. So they studied it. there were actually two masters degree thesis done on this humble little kitchen towel. Academia put a lot more value and attention On this item than we did. I think you’re doing the same thing here with the symbol. So you need a School project and you pick one that sounds like a good idea for a project but it’s really something this community probably never thought of. It has a merits and I even like that dwelling symbol you have but we are a community that if we need something we invent it and do it ourselves. I guess we’re oddballs but most of us don’t like anybody else from the outside coming into us and telling us what to do and how to do it. We even get pissed off if somebody in our own group tells us what to do and how to do it. If I ever need a class project I think I’m going to do a study of class projects. I could answer questions like how many of these are really relevant to the community or culture were studying, and in five years who will remember this information? And does this information have any viability or value that could last? I’m saying all that tongue in cheek in fact responding to your post like this is just for play to give me something to do so you don’t have to grade my work. God bless the nomads and the academics who want to study us.

By the way carving a mark into a tree or sketching it on a rock or painting it somewhere would be against our ethic of leaving no trace.

 

[nature lover]

PS - did you read enough on our forum and Bob’s videos to know the significance of the bucket that was suggested for a symbol?

 

[eDJ_]

This sketch would represent my Universal Nomad Flag.   The theme could be expanded for topics such as boondocking, stealth, full timing, retiring student loans, or a statement of one's political views.

 

[MdesDJ]

mdesdj - lnteresting -  as a member of the plain community (Amish Mennonite brethren)I have seen academics choose all sorts of minor little things about our people to study. students need to have a project. there was one women asked Me To help her do a study on the  “Kellie Duke” That’s a Pennsylvania German for “kitchen towel”. Years ago when cooking utensils were hung on the wall the custom of putting a towel up to keep the Dirty spoons and ladles from staining the wall. As many things in our culture it didn’t start with us we just continued it longer than other cultures.  Changes in our culture happens much slower than they do in others. The kitchen towel disappeared from the modern people quicker than it did from our people. So the academics came along Noticed it and thought it might have some cultural significance.  So they  studied it. there were actually two masters degree thesis done on this humble little kitchen towel. Academia put a lot more value and attention On this item than we did. I think you’re doing the same thing here with the symbol. So you need a School project and you pick one that sounds like a good idea for a project but it’s really something this community probably never thought of. It has a merits and I even like that dwelling symbol you have but we are a community that if we need something we invent it and do it ourselves. I guess we’re oddballs but most of us don’t like anybody else from the outside coming into us and telling us what to do and how to do it. We even get pissed off if somebody in our own group tells us what to do and how to do it. If I ever need a class project I think I’m going to do a  study of class projects. I could answer questions like how many of these are really relevant to the community or culture were studying, and in five years who will remember this information?  And does this information have any viability or value that could last? I’m saying all that tongue in cheek in fact responding to your post like this is just for play to give me something to do so you don’t have to grade my work. God bless the nomads and the academics who want to study us.

By the way carving a mark into a tree or sketching it on a rock or painting it somewhere would be against our ethic of leaving no trace.

Hi Nature Lover, thanks for your honest opinion. I hear you loud and clear and am moving away from the universal symbol idea. The original intention was to have fun with this project and learn some new things about boondocking. My first experience was this past summer, and now I’m hooked. Just this weekend, my wife and I went free camping again in southern Ohio. We can’t justify paying for camping anymore. That’s one of the many things about boondocking that I love. It gives me a chance to be an anti consumerist. On that note, I am playing with a new direction for my project that involves sharing with settlers (not nomads) how to camp without being consumerist. We can learn a lot from nomads in this regard. Curious if you have any advice on how to be an anti consumerist camper (at the very least to distract you some more from grading)? I think of my boondocking in Michigan this summer where I foraged mushrooms, shared food with strangers (other boondockers), never paid to camp, and didn’t buy fire wood. It’s impossible to be a pure anti-consumerist, but we can take steps, starting with how we camp. 

ps the buckets are toilets