>>35220
Check out:

• Griffith Observatory (free)
  
• Pasadena for Farmer's Market (I have a buddy who sells olive oil there)
  
• Inglewood's Stuff I Eat
  
• The beaches
  
• The mountains (look up trails, waterfalls, viewpoints, etc.)
  
• Huntington Library in Pasadena
  
• DTLA
  
• US Bank rooftop ($40)
  
• Venice canals
  

-Man, my brother is like a LA tour guide I swear. He would know exactly what to do but this is from what I have experienced.

>>35220

>locals might do which isn't super touristy

Since you want to Roller Blade go to Downtown Culver City and rollerblade to the bike path and around a bit. Then you can grab something to eat in Culver City there are also plenty of Art Galleries in Culver City.

That's pretty non-touristy. Also avoid Venice 100%. If you want the LA beach experience go to Santa Monica particularly the part just North of Venice Beach and South of Pico Boulevard. If you want to go shopping there are tons of good shops on Main Street (Santa Monica) which is less than a block from the beach. There is even this cool Japanese department store called Muji.

As for a Hotel near the airport I would stay at the Custom Hotel.

>>35204
what's up with that dude's dick? It looks like his head is split in twain.

>>35202
Your tripping peers are metaphysical types.

>>35221
That did not elaborate at all.

Hey James Randi!

Me and another 420channer want to do the same vagabond trip. Thing is, I'm an American. How have you avoided getting deported for this long? Are you doing the 90 day hack? Just doing a good job at avoiding cops? I haven't been following the thread lately. How long have you been doing this?

Also, it'd be really cool if we could meet up at some point during our travels. We're pretty much going east along the Mediterranean from Portugal to Turkey. What would be the best way for us to get in touch?

DICKS EVERYWHERE

That sounds like a sweet trip.
I doubt you're still checking here. But if you want to hang with a random internet stranger who may or may not try to rob and / or kill you living near the _Nürburgring_ then shoot me a message.
idgaf(at)trashmail.com

I pretty much want the same thing except I live in the UK.

>>35231
I pretty much do the same thing, except out of a car.
OP, get:

• DC to AC inverter/converter
  
• an electric and/or wood chip stove
  
• extension chords
  
• a sleeping bag (I have a Wiggys)
  
• glass jars with lids to store food/spices
  
• a water purifier (i have a Sawyer)
  
• tools to fix your van/car
  

Godspeed OP.
#homeiswhereyouparkit

OP here again, just found this for sale a town over for just under $4K. Rebuilt transmission, quite a few miles on the engine but I feel like that's not as much of an issue if the transmission is new. It's inside my price range and it'll give me some cash left over to start customizing it to fit my needs. The guy selling it claims to be a mechanic/van dweller themself so it seems like a winner. Gonna give them a call tonight, any questions I should ask in particular?

>>35240
Forgot the pic, it's an old econoline. From the pics, it looks like it's been kept up pretty well.

>>35240
Look up that particular year/model online and check for common issues that arise from it.. And ask why he is selling it (and try to decipher if his reasoning is legit)

Richard Mabey*

I'm still wandering mainlan Europe if you wanna join.

>>35234
Oh hey you I've seen your thread, It would be a good idea to travel with someone experienced, it would mean leaving the country though and I have no experience with that, the only language I know is English.

I might take you up on that though when I feel confident, I want to try doing it closer to home first, so I can get a feel for it, dont know if thats a good idea but I'm pretty sure my parents wouldn't sleep if I hopped country with no knowledge of living homeless, if I cant get a motorhome that is.

I do like the idea of jumping into a different culture though, sounds really fun.

One question by the way, how do you clean your food after dumpster diving, I've seen some of the stuff you got, glad there's plenty of veg in there.

>>35235
I ussualy try to take packaged stuff and if its not packaged I only take it if it can be cleaned with just cold water. If its too dirty for cold water then i dont take it.

>>35238
Thanks man, good luck on your travels, maybe we will cross paths one day.

>>35222

Just get a GPS, dude.

back in the day they used paper maps, and the address numbers on the street are in a sequence. Depending on which way you're driving they'll go up or down. So they'd find the street, then drive along until the numbers start to get close before really paying attention.

Plus most people, once they have driven someplace, can reach that area again by memory alone. After driving around the same town for years you'd know how to get to every street, then ya just watch the numbers go up or down till it hits the one ya want...

All I have to do is drive someplace, then I will always know how to get back to it (within reason). But my first time I either need a navigator ("go left, take this turn, get into that lane, etc."), a map, or GPS.

The town I'm in is set up in quadrants, there is NW, NE, SW, SE, with avenues going East-West and streets going North-South with street/avenue numbers increasing the further you get out from the centre. So if you want to get to 55 Ave NW you go north from Centre Ave. 55 blocks.

Sometimes, but not always, house numbers are prefixed with the nearest street number, so you'll cross 6th street and the house numbers will go 601...603...605...

Of course, some places are just fucked and you have to have an idea of where you're going beforehand.

I'll often end up on the street I'm going to, slow down and try to spot house numbers. After you spot two you'll know if they're counting up or down.

>I'm terrified of driving, mostly because I'm terrified of getting lost.

Getting lost can be fun, you get to see areas you wouldn't otherwise have.

As for being afraid of driving, it pretty much boils down to how much you've done it.

In the US, street numbers which are odd are located on the South or East side of a street. Even numbers are located on the North or West side of a street. The block numbers on a major street sign tell you which addresses are located within their block. So if you are looking for 2424 N. 7th street, first of all you already know it will be on the West side of the street because it is an even number (the left if you are going North). As you go up the street, you can look at street signs for numbers which indicate where you are in the block. You may pass 2200, then 2300, then 2400, woah slow down buddy you are almost there.

You can also familiarize yourself with your local region's style of street typing. Some cities will have a sequence where they go: Street -> Road -> Place -> Street

or something similar to that. This can help you if you know that places are always next after streets, or whatever.

Other tips:

>Blue reflectors indicate there is a fire hydrant nearby.
>If an emergency vehicle is coming in your direction on the opposite side of the road, you do not have to slow down or stop at all if there is a median. Just keep on goin'.
>It is legal in most of the US to make a U-turn at a red arrow. Check local law.
>White lines mean traffic goes the same way on both sides, yellow means opposite directions.
>The most common cause of engine failure is overheating. Keep your goddamn radiator working.

>>34965
As you can see, no one will really give you advice on this, as its an extremely stupid and unnecessary idea with an unnecessarily high risk. Every time a thread like this pops up, people tell OP the same thing as I told you.

>>34966
I also think you misunderstood me, my friend got away with it as he said, that's what i was saying

>>34963

I like how you say no racism but assume if the person aint white you're gonna be less safe. Its just about knowing how to read people and who to trust. OP bringing shit on a national flght is just as risky as asking random people when it comes to Molly. Its a felony to have in every state and there are thousands of narcotics agents in the u.s. and even more informants who exist in major party cities and festivals. You can never tell by someone's looks who's a cop or scammer its all about body language and reading between bs.

I was flying to fucking Colombia with klonopin, kratom + extract, plus random weed particles scattered on my laptop and shit.

dumb fuck TSA pulled me aside and started tearing my shit up, just pulling all my bags of kratom out giving the hugest what the fuuuck is this look like he just caught some big time smuggler. As I'm silently shitting my pants, he starts to test everything with his stupid swab test for drugs. Dude swiped EVERYTHING, including my laptop that acts as a rolling tray everyday. Swiped my half-eaten protein bar where I had crushed klonopin hidden inside it, swiped all the kratom etc.

Nada bitch. It really made me second guess the efficiency of TSA, they're a bunch of morons. I mean nigga, this was an international flight to COLOMBIA of all places. You'd think after pulling out bag after bag of sketchy green powder in an unlabeled ziploc that would've been enough to get a little more thorough check but nah. He got the results back, stuffed it all back inside, and I proceded to eat my laced protein bar and conked out for the entire flight with zero recollection of even falling asleep.

tl;dr if you don't look like a sketchy fuck and aren't acting sketchy, you can get away with quite a lot. Look up all the studies they do on it, they're fucking useless at actually finding shit. They are only there to preventatively scare off the retards.

And don't bring weed to key west wtf man. Do you know how easy it will be to cop down there? Molly, ok, but come on.

>>35215
Weed grows great in florida. I was paying 100 and ounce in tampa bay area, for fire as good as most stuff in the stores on the west coast.

>flying with mdma

Fucking retarded. Take it before you board, florida is covered in ecstasy, though it's almost all cut... they prefer it cut there. If you have to smuggle something, take acid, it's easy (dip anything in it, toss it in booze after you get off. Put it on your fucking vitamins even.) and hard to come by in the southeast. Though in florida, there are tons of angel trumpets growing this time of year. Go eat those.

bought a new bianchi pista a bit over-sized in 2009, when i was 16. i hope the chormoly frame will last my whole life, maybe even longer

http://www.bikepedia.com/quickbike/BikeSpecs.aspx?Year=2009&Brand=Bianchi&Model=Pista

I want to ride my bicycle!

I want to ride my bicycle.........

How fun is an e-bike?

Hill Climb Girls are the best. Yeah!

Shanghai-ed
http://www.iatemywaythrough.com/2017/01/shanghai-sundays-the-westin-shanghai/
Fine western dining in China? You got to be joking, right?

I'll go the distance for some good dessert!

Take me to KYOTO
https://ramenraff.blogspot.ca/2017/02/kyoto-eats.html

Tasmania
http://grabyourfork.blogspot.ca/2017/04/masaakis-sushi-geeveston.html?m=1

Vegan can be tatsy? You just have to travel for it...
http://www.notquitenigella.com/2016/05/23/best-vegan-food-sydney/

>>35197
you have no idea what you are talking about, drum brakes work by putting out outward pressure from the hub onto a drum from something called a shoe. The whole thing relies on slowing down the car by extending the shoe into the drum and is incredibly inefficient since you have a limited amount of stopping force from 1) the amount of pressure needed to move the shoe and 2) the lack of airflow (the heat gets trapped in the drum) before the heat of the whole thing decides it doesn't want to continue to produce friction. With disc brakes there is actual air flow to help mitigate this, also by using a disc to clamp onto a rotor you have more surface area covered that requires even less pressure since on a sliding caliper you only have one pad doing the clamping. Disc brakes also can perform in wet weather far superiorly than drums as water will literally pool into the drum and act as a lubricant, and make your drums useless.

tl;dr you wrong grandpa

>>35198

>>Also a car built without power steering in mind handles better than say, a car with a full power steering system that has failed.

???

Yeah? Because the ratios from the steering rack are completely different for that purpose. You know that non-power steering vehicles can also have steering components fail? And are also equipped with shitty gears such as worm gears? Your comparison is weird man.

But changing drum brakes is not the only downside lol. They are horrible and inferior to even the cheapest disk brakes in almost every aspect besides cost to manufacturer. nb

>>34787
let's go even further than that and start crank-starting our engines again. no more failure-prone ignition systems!

>>35213
You fucking faggots and your alien machines. Henry Ford is the devil. A horse and buggy are all this pilgrim needs. We've had them since our lorde and saviour was killed by them butt-fuckin Romans. Ain't no alien engin machine gonna git me, no sireeeee.

>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe

power steering is optional in light cars but no one builds light cars anymore. If car manufacturers could build something in the sub 2000lb range they could make them quick and cheap. but they would be deathtraps and the massive cars out there would pancake them.

fwd with an lsd and 150 na hp revving high would be amazing.

>>34983

This is true as fuck. I see one everywhere I look. If you like blending in with more acceleration the 2007-2008 impala ss is essentially disappearing into a crowd.. Esp grey white and black. They may not be no 96 impala but for the price of around 9k for 100- miles and 5k for above it ain't bad. Not everyone rides as but the sedans look no different than the other mid to later 2000s impala models. Everywhere I look I see grey Buicks and impala.

>>35205

*not everyone drives an ss

DICKS EVERYWHERE

Honestly for a simple, well-made, easy to diy repair vehicle that isn't going to stick out in a crowd then I suggest getting a Honda Civic or accord. Honda's are known for their reliability. They're cheap to buy and maintain, and if you ever did want to do something to it later on Honda Civic has more aftermarket parts available then literally any other car in the world.

I just bought an 09 Civic LX sedan with 80,000 miles for $5,200 (granted it would normally be closer to $8,000 for the car I bought, I got it at cost from the owner who has a small dealership) and I love everything about it so far. This is an upgrade from my 07 cobalt LS in which the engine went bad. The Civic is so much nicer, and I've only heard good things about hondas.

As far as the color go gray, black or white if you're trying not to stick out.

>>35205

I was just curious so I looked up the top cars registered in residents names in my city and impala was on the list and buic Lacrosses. Makes sense..see em every time I turn my head.

>>35194
why

perhaps in my nightmares

If I'm lucky I'll never have to do so much as even see the place in person.