Thank you

Thank you for inviting..., will give it my best to be 'good'.
I love...Awakening in the morning to Mt.Rainier with the sun rising in the East.
I love...LIFE & asking, & discovering, & learning, & sharing...
I love...savoring nutrient-Rich foods & grow yet more, & win awards at state Fair.
I love...teaching all the wonderful things I have learned, so others too may benefit.
I love...visiting new places occasionally.
I love...the most stunning SUNsets thru our west-window. None more splendid anywhere.
I love  my Sweetie, & sharing some yummy tea, & falling asleep easily & quickly & sleep well ... &
I love... how in my dreams we are Pair-sk8ing... and all is well. All is well because I love...
so
if you wonder what outside I'm like: Picture a happy slender girlie, skippin' in her bounteous garden
amidst the veggies, fruits, herbs, & flowers... where w/ 3 of the bestest friends I am truly in heaven...
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((Tho others are decidedly different, so much, in judging... "Annie ain't right".
-> "I live, but that baby dies" is right. ............................... Annie you ain't right.
->  pain/disease/steal/aging/etc. r right. ........................... Obviously you ain't right.
->  lies, & wars, & Freedom stolen r right .......................... Nope, you ain't right.
according to the world as currently existing ....................... you are totally wrong.
ok, exist your way, world.))

Amongst ....... precious close friends I am simply called "cute rainBow Annie"
(seen in Honda minivan at times)
and
HOW ARE YOU ALL ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pa--CKR...e=youtu.be

I can't piece together something like sternwake has and can't remember which fan I wanted. Anybody with pros and cons?

I thought we needed an area to post apps that help us on the road.

Here are a few I use:

Campendium - helpful app to find places to camp

Public Lands - has nice overlays and maps

Trucker Path - where the truck stops are and is updated by truckers as to are the lots filled

Freecampsites.net. Not an app but I use it a lot

Sanidumps - for those of us who need to find dump stations

GasBuddy - has where you can get the cheapest gas near to you

Roadtrippers - has a lot of info on scenic routes and things to do along the way

Only in your state - neat facts and things to see and do by state

National Geographic Park Maps - nice

Gas Guru - cheapest gas finder

Roadside attractions - this one ya gotta pay a little for but it lists tons of funny and cheesy roadside attractions. Has an interactive map

Anyone care to add?

Hi just wanted to say hi 

Gonna start out with a fiberglass topper on my pickup and see how it goes and than move up to a cargo van if it works 

Thanks 
Bill

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/03/17/...ime-scenes

An anonymous reader quotes the public records reporter from North Carolina TV station WRAL: In at least four investigations last year -- cases of murder, sexual battery and even possible arson at the massive downtown fire in March 2017 -- Raleigh police used search warrants to demand Google accounts not of specific suspects, but from any mobile devices that veered too close to the scene of a crime, according to a WRAL News review of court records... The demands Raleigh police issued for Google data [i][in two homicide cases] described a 17-acre area that included both homes and businesses... The account IDs aren't limited to electronics running Android. The warrant includes any device running location-enabled Google apps, according to Raleigh Police Department spokeswoman Laura Hourigan...

On March 16, 2017, a five-alarm fire ripped through the unfinished Metropolitan apartment building on West Jones Street... About two months later, Raleigh police obtained a search warrant for Google account IDs that showed up near the block of the Metropolitan between 7:30 and 10 p.m. the night of the fire... In addition to anonymized numerical identifiers, the warrant calls on Google to release time stamped location coordinates for every device that passed through the area. Detectives wrote that they'd narrow down that list and send it back to the company, demanding "contextual data points with points of travel outside of the geographical area" during an expanded timeframe. Another review would further cull the list, which police would use to request user names, birth dates and other identifying information of the phones' owners.[/i]
"Do people understand that in sharing that information with Google, they're also potentially sharing it with law enforcement?" asks a former Durham prosecutor who directs the North Carolina Open Government Coalition at Elon University. And Stephanie Lacambra, criminal defense staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, also criticized the procedure. "To just say, 'Criminals commit crimes, and we know that most people have cell phones,' that should not be enough to get the geo-location on anyone that happened to be in the vicinity of a particular incident during a particular time." She believes that without probable cause the police department is "trying to use technology as a hack for their job... It does not have to be that we have to give up our privacy rights in order to participate in the digital revolution."

Nathan Freed Wessler, staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, put it succinctly. "At the end of the day, this tactic unavoidably risks getting information about totally innocent people."

they signed up but havent done the email activation so i get a red banner at the top of the screen

been 3 days so i am about to delete them

Hey there! I'm new here, I'd like to ask permission to join this group. Here's a little about me

I'm an old woman and I live in my Van!
I live in my van and it's just because I CAN,
Andy's my name and I've never been a man!
I'm a lunatic & I should be put in YARC.

I park where I want and it might be at a park,
If I get caught parking there I should be thrown in the can!

I saw Wabbit's JB empty just a floating down the stream,
I fished it out and then ran back & tossed it in his van!
I sat back and watched as he scratched his little head,
Snickering as I watched him as he crawled back in his bed!

I've been reading here for a few months. I'd done some reading over at the other place and watched a few videos.
I started camping & fishing on Kern River in late 1968. The old hot tubs were my favorite spot.

...from the corporate world.  I just made my escape from the rat race!  I've been a nomad, however, for a long time, maybe my whole life if your criteria are lax.  I grew up traveling with my family, and in 2003 I started preparing to be a nomad and have basically not had a permanent location since 2008.   I spent quite a bit of time traveling internationally and spent a couple years in europe and central and south america.

My style of travel and living has evolved over the years, originally I wanted to sail around the world, but discovered blue water sailing wasn't for me, then I travelled using this new service called AirBnB for many years, and the next phase is a van.

Next month I will buy a ProMaster 159 wheelbase cargo van and start converting it. I can't wait!

By training and genetics I'm an engineer with a background in electronics and software, but have had as a hobby mechanical engineering-- specifically Battle Bots, I was nationally ranked for a brief period before robot combat and nomadism became incompatible.  I *might* use some of my discretionary space in the van for a robot workshop, we will see.


Now that I'm not working 80 hours a week anymore, I'm going to need some hobbies. 

But for now, its all about building the van.

Greetings!

There's a thread on CRVL about the book Nomadland.  On at least 2 posts so far  they were "edited" because they over quoted the post they were responding to.  I wonder what that job pays?  Of course the moderator is un- named.  If I'm gettin' smacked down I like to know who's doin' the smackin'.

Jewellann