love this place, street running mainline trains are cool as fuck. plus there's a Bevmo there, train spotting is much better with some beer

pic of a MUNI tram I took while in SF last Friday

New York City has a lot of trains, uptown, downtown, and across town. The L train to Brooklyn doesn't run on weekends now, but the Q train now goes to the upper east side, The F train is local in Manhattan but express in Queens and sometimes Brooklyn. The Q train is express in Brooklyn, and used to go to astoria on the N line. The L train normally runs across town on fourteenth street and all the way across williamsburg bushwick bed stuy to canarsie, if you want to get to laguardia airport take the 7 or the E or the F or the R to seventyfourth street broadway roosevelt in queens and transfer to the bus, if you want to get to JFK then take the E train to the AirTrain and transfer, but be advised that the AirTrain is like twice the cost of a regular fare and does not transfer, subway to bus, bus to bus, and some bus to subway transfers are limited to 2 hours on the same card, a new card costs one dollar and the fare is currently 2.75

>>35841
why did the L train stop running on weekends?

>>35787
go to a camping store

Theres a dude in my town who always rides his elephant everywhere, he's like the head of the local buddhist monestary or something. Next time I see him I'll ask him these questions for you OP

>>35828
I hate it when they don't ride in the elephant lane.

Elephants eat between 149 and 169 kg (330-375 lb.) of vegetation daily.

>>35835
Elephants are wonderful.

>>35836

Where can I go to meet with some elephants?

>>35824
still gotta know which side its on lol
some batteries just don't fit. you gotta buy the right one for your compartment

batteries, how do they work?

>>35824

Now that's quite different from "Hurr just get any betory" isn't it, you shit gorilla.

The steering wheel is so big, im confident they were designed for people suffering from Obesity.

>>35837
keep it, you may be obese someday.

Seriously though, if you maintain cars they can last a long time.

>>35648

when you get home, create a gritty depressing anime based on your experiences. i can see it in my mind's eye, a man with jeans and a white button-up shirt and scruffy black hair, walking around with a beer in hand at this huge festival, glowering with anger and disappointment, a little black squiggle cloud above his head...

I'm still on my trip but at this point I just want to go home. I've basically failed to change again, as always. Asking me to socialize with people is like asking a person with a fear of heights to climb a 50 foot tree. I just can't make myself do it, even just to go to martial arts classes, even with the ability to never go back. I just can't deal with the fear and anxiety I feel.

Isolating myself even farther on the trip was the exact opposite of what I needed to do. I know my depression will never go away unless I end the isolation, and if the depression is there, it will make it harder to do everything, including controlling myself and challenging myself and interacting with people. I can't just fight through it. I need to end the depression by ending the isolation and this roundabout strategy didn't work. None of my strategies work because I don't have any self control and cannot follow through on any of the plans I make to help myself.

>>35741
Just started reading your thread. I wish you luck on your journey brother.
I suggest going to a rainbow gathering. There you will meet a lot of other odd ball people who live in vans. They can give you advice, their willing to listen to your problems and mostly genuinely want to help.

Also try looking for meet ups on various sites like couch surfing on face book. That way if it goes sour then you can just bail with no social consequences.
Also try an app called park 4 night. Idk if it works in the us but it lists all the spots you can park over night, lit's prices of camp spots, shows free ones and water points.

Good luck man.

Enjoy the van life.
https://granolashotgun.com/2018/04/29/the-urban-frontier-cabin/

OP how old are you? You've got to find some other reason to live than other people. If you continue to worry about how little you talk to other people your anxiety will grow and grow. It's a feedback loop! The only way to break it is to just stop caring about other people and all the supposedly great bullshit your missing out on.

Social experiences on a friday night? Trite wastes of time where you spend money on bad food you could just cook at home.

Adventures and escapades? They may make for interesting stories but it's unlikely that you've accomplished anything meaningful, and may get arrested, hurt, or damage something someone else cares for.

Sex? You are programmed to care so much about sex but it's really not all that great, in it's own right.

Love? Sure, it might be nice to have on-tap happiness but most people who fall in love fall out of love at some point, and the only reason they stay together is due to some outside pressure from friends, family, or the larger economic reality. Life is easier with a partner, but is that what you really want?

Go read some philosophy like The Stranger or Nausea or Meditations by Marcus Aurelius or whatever! Just start educating yourself about how many other people have gone through what you're going through, and rather than whining and running around in circles about their situation they've decided to do something great. And guess what? Do you think you aren't the person to do something great? Well it doesn't matter, because in the end we all die. Try to be something! ]

I was in your position a few years ago and I had the same thoughts of hopelessness. I learned that there is no wrong person to talk to when you're in that state of mind. Just acting cool and sayign dumb things to anyone who will listen. A good way to get someone to listen to you is to listen to their dumb shit first. Try working at a gas station and talking to the alcoholics, that worked for me!

>>35782
U so sensitive

Is it because of your small car?

>>35783
I've owned many cars in my lifetime (51 to be exact) and I've owned some good ones like a 1990 Eagle Talon TSI AWD turbo that I modified to make 586 awhp, multiple Cadillacs, I even built a 92 Dodge Colt hatch with a 4g63t swap that ran 11s, but this Civic has been my favorite because it's reliable, easy to build and work on, and nobody expects it to be as fast as it is. I'm upset

OP here

This took a really brash turn.

What im saying is that the cabin heat used to run just fine, and now it doesnt.

Not like I need it now. But the engine thermostat reads hot after 2 minutes of switching the cabin heat knob to hot.

>>35776
Will do m8. I hope its not the head gasket.

Not to derail the thread but I have a smilar problem in my 1988 Honda Prelude, 3G

Has quite the mileage on it but it still runs well. She's my baby & I'm trying to fix her up.

The transmission started going out & I thought it was one, already had the engine replaced. Turned out it just needed fluid.. Japanese & their tiny hands man, took my friends dad 20m to find the tranny fluid to fill it up.

Thing is the car is overheating, especially if it idles a while. I can't drive it more than 30m before the engine temp skyrocets. I may need a new radiator but I don't think that's it.

Fairly vague with my assessment here but any advice appreciated, I love the crap out of Third Gen's. Goal is to keep mine as a parts car & find one with 4WS

Fucking white people.

Water bicycles are superior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QVpJDvNwJY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6VJ1cdSPcY

Use a push scooter

>>35777
ask and ye shall receive

>>35764
Im a biased northerner (come t' north...), but I wouldnt say to focus on getting an authentic "english" experience in London, a British experience maybe.. London is very much an international city like New York, renowned for its exotic wares, the showcase of an empire. Getting a fish and chips there is just as authentic as getting a curry or sushi or whatever. The same extends to what you want to do there, whatever you are interested you can probably find some of the best of it in London. I'd recommend specific places but I dont think even those who live there cant keep track of such a changing city. At least the museums will always remain some of the best in the world and free! (national portrait is a personal fav). You can have the whole world in London if you have the money (and you might need a lot of money..)

isnt there like roman ruins and shit in england? or... english ruins? like castles and stuff? thats what i would want to check out

>>35786
Theres a few good castles in england, but for the best ones you have to go to Ireland, Scotland and Wales, where they were needed to intimidate the celts. As for roman ruins we have a few but not many cause we were a frontier nation (hadrians wall, bath, chester and york have good roman stuff).
What we do have though is lots of ruins of monasteries and cathedrals from when we did away with catholics, bit of a shame compared with the existing ones left in the rest of europe.

You should check out atlas obscura also OP.

The Tank Museum, Bovington
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTankMuseum
Give it a try, guv.

Japanese Ramen Safari
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-tokyo-best-ramen/

Vegetarian in SINGAPORE?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOUMr8BnKwA

>>35217
been hankering to try one of these

Going to Sydney, Australia soon
https://cocoandvine.com/
http://thernbdiary.com/
http://www.excusemewaiter.com/

>mmmmmmmmm

Meal with a view Under the Seeeeaaaaaa
http://www.notquitenigella.com/categories/travel/maldives/

>>35454
wow I never knew bicycles and hot babes would be such a good combination

>>35485
I should have nb'd that.

Tonight we ride !

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W-3Mnu3Ovo
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQBbHzypBro

>>35485
True dat

>>35644
Wish I can do that with my bicycle.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr-wLhP_HpM

>>35746
I'll keep the thread going for now so it doesn't fall off of page 10 and post interesting things about the goings on of my life. But for now the travel is going to be minimal and the vagabonding is more or less over. I've got an appartment, a phone, internet, electricity and even a fucking washer and dryer.

Were in a tiny ass company provided appartment but were looking to upgrade.

I just want to thank all you guys for actually giving a shit and reading all my nonsense!

So I just messaged a bunch of people who are also travelers that I know to see if they would be willing to be interviewed or to collaborate on a test pilot episode for a podcast about traveling.
I'll keep you guys updated.

>>35746

Dude, nice.

Glad to hear from you again! Keep up with the updates, dude. I might be traveling within the next year myself. Likely out of my car, though, but this thread is great tips and fiddles regardless.

>>35759
sounds interesting right there

>>35746

pics of you transporting a tuk tuk customer or it didnt happen