u/ComplexMaybe123

I just passed through midtown Manhattan NYC and in the midst of the madness, a Planet Fitness. that made me think I'd be so glad to get to shower and even play around with weights and machines if I were on the street in New York. But really, since they're everywhere, maybe I can take advantage of the gyms for showers all over. Not sure if I want to pay up monthly for it, might just get truck stop showers if I'm gonna pay but usually I just swim and hand wash when I'm hiking about. If you have any thoughts on this lemme know - for now I ain't buying shit but I'm thinking bout it

One time I was playing my mandolin on a street corner for tips, and after a half hour or so a churchgoer asked if I'd come play their event. I said sure, and they walked with me to their church and had me play a couple songs. While I was singing they passed a tip hat around for me (!) and I made a good chunk! They also gave me a full meal and were so friendly. It's great when busking leads to a little gig like that - and it felt nice to be a curiosity and interest to the congregation. I'm glad I got to bring a little more joy to their day and also that they were so generous!

I'll be in Buffalo NY by evening on the 1st. I'm catching the bus tomorrow night. This is my departure from sedentary living to begin roughing it and thumbing my way around the country for an indefinite amount of time. First hitch will be Buffalo south to Pennsylvania, but my goal is to go to the Rockies and the Pacific and do 1000 things along the way. Then keep going...

I want to upgrade some gear as I go, for instance a larger pack, and maybe a hammock instead of a tent. In any case I'm out of Maine tomorrow tonight and out of housed life till who knows when!

For what it's worth, i did try to make a go of it as a regular ole working stiff, but I applied for so many jobs, even volunteer work, and got no position out of all my searching. I tried a little to make friends in town but no real luck there. I only lived in this spot for 6 months and it's about time to high tail it out of here. "Itchy feet," as the saying goes.

I'll be leaving Maine, where I've been sedentary for one and half years, at the end of the month to start traveling (again). It's been a while since I've lived on the road but I think I'll adjust quickly.

First stop will be Buffalo, NY by bus en route to the Rainbow Gathering in PA south of there. I'll be hitching the way from Buffalo to the national forest lands. Then it's off west after Rainbow, totally undetermined route and only one concrete goal which is to go to Los Angeles at some point. Also Yosemite, and Arches in Utah, and honestly the list goes on but nothing formal is mapped out yet.

Hope the rest of you are doing great! I'm basically an oogle again after years of being stationary in New England, but I'm looking forward to a good time. Up em!!!

I've slept on it a few days and still feel it's the right decision to ditch this spot I've had for 6 months and travel.

I'm scared a bit to give up my bedroom, but I also know I can rent again later when I'm ready to stop moving around. I get disability so I will be using that to eat and buy transit fare instead of renting.

I'm in Maine and trying to get to the Pacific slowly, and eventually to loop back to New Orleans. I may linger in places for a while, but the goal is regular oogle life where I'm mostly moving.

I have to sell some stuff like my electric guitar and amp and microphones, but otherwise I'm giving away all my extra clothes and leftover food and books here in town. I think I'll get a ukulele once I'm out and about.

First stop will be Binghamton, NY. I might be able to get to the annual rainbow gathering near there. Either way, getting to Binghamton is relatively cheap and moves me out of New England.

I wanna get to Venice Beach again, the Olympics, see Utah more thoroughly, see if I can get to Tahoe or Yosemite, and return to Montana. Really the road is open and I'll have my choice of what to do.

I hope to start linking up with other travelers once I'm home free... See you out there!

I've been on the road before. It has been since early 2020 that I've been totally sedentary, but altogether since 2012 I spent about 3 solid years living out of a pack or in vehicles.

I haven't worked a job in a long time. I already don't like capitalism, and never wanted to work, but I also have over a decade of effects from a health problem in 2015 that has lingered since. In any case, I'm stagnating living on disability benefits where almost everything goes to rent.

I eat like shit. Not junk food, but just not really enough, or it's more filler than substance. I used to focus on health a lot and know i do a lot better eating a lot, and especially fruits and all produce and a variety of proteins.

I'm frankly considering traveling again just so I can use my welfare to actually buy food. It's really the only expense aside from some transit fare and some other resupplying.

Also, I am just losing it trying to live this solitary impoverished life in a rooming house full of hateful and backward people in a place I never really wanted to move to in the first place.

Aside from all my gripes and ranting, it is just peak weather right now and I want to go back west and get out of New England.

I have a smallish pack, a solo tent, a sleeping bag, and my clothes and hygiene. I'm thinking of using the cash I get when I move out to grab a different pack and some comfier clothes I like more and then taking a bus to somewhere in the rust belt or Midwest and hitching it from there. I don't want to Greyhound straight across the country - the goal is to move slowly.

I want to visit national parks and nature sites and try to get more in tune. I come from the punk world and I'm honestly at a point where I haven't had the energy to organize or the emotional resilience to deal with politics, but I am thinking I want to focus on my body and healing because it's gotten pretty rough being sedentary for so long.

I'm a little worried that I've gotten soft from so much sitting around and sameness but that's the whole idea. I want to shake things up and try to plan like a whole year of travel before I reassess about settling in anywhere.

I want to live lighter, less tied by rent.

I've been taking 250mg doses of psilocybin mushrooms every other day for the past week. My capsules are mixed with lions mane and niacin as well, and I will note that I also smoke cannabis and vape nicotine.

So far I've appreciated the effect of microdosing. The time when I'm actively affected - the, say, 5 hours after taking a capsule - are a little difficult mentally, and I've also found myself a little drowsy. The effect by the morning of an off day is tremendous though. I have been stuck in a depressive rut and low level chronic illness since early winter. My new protocol, so far, is alleviating some executive dysfunction and getting me to be more accepting of my life/reality than I have been.

I'm thinking of toning the dosing cycle down to 1 day on 2 days off, however I feel good enough with every other day and will stick with it for now.

I could get into all my life story about how I chose to microdose - but in short it is an alternative to seeking psychiatric medications (I've talked many before) and an attempt to be more intentional with mushrooms, which in the past I've only taken recreationally at higher doses at events and socially. I have much more experience with LSD, and I want to work with mushrooms more closely at this time, as far as classic psychedelics go.

I intend to keep my protocol going for 2 months initially, then decide whether I keep it going further.