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Find Your Way Without the Internet: 7 of the Best Offline Maps Apps by Dave DeanMay 23, 20192 Comments Whether you’re getting off the grid, don’t have a local SIM card yet, or just prefer not to be connected all the time, you’ll undoubtedly find yourself traveling without the Internet at some...

Photo Credit: Cory Tiger INSTINCT AND EMPATHY: THE CHALLENGES FEMALE HIKERS FACE ON THE A.T. CAPPY PHALEN 24 MAY 19 My instinct told me to run. It also told me not to run while the man could still see me. Feigning calm, I walked slowly away from him and out of his sight. The moment I felt sure...

How more and more Americans are taking to the road and making a vehicle their home. There’s a fireball sunset blazing on the western horizon of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. As a cool January dusk settles over this ashy plain outside the town of Quartzsite, two hours west of Phoenix on Interstate...

7 drug overdoses over 10-hour period possibly linked to fentanyl, KCK police say Nick Sloan, Chris Oberholtz Updated May 24, 2019 | Posted on May 17, 2019 (Associated Press) KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV) -- Police are investigating a scary number of drug overdoses within just a few hours. Police...

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/05/08/denver-psychedelic-magic-mushroom/ This is an amazing step forward! I'm a huge advocate for psychological rehab for all sorts of ailments. I can't even begin to describe how happy I am about this. I didnt think I was going to see the prohibition on...

These days you can dismiss anything you don’t like by calling it “a religion.” Science, for instance, has been deemed essentially religious, despite the huge difference between a method of finding truth based on empirical verification and one based on unevidenced faith, revelation, authority...

Though this was just hilariously random enough to put on StP: How many "Chuggas" do you say before "ChooChoo!"? TRENDING How Many ‘Chuggas’ Should Come Before Choo Choo? by Daily Dot How many “chuggas” come before “choo choo?” This question was recently posted in the r/TooAfraidToAsk...

Wes Modes is documenting life along America’s waterways. BY JONATHAN CAREY MARCH 07, 2019 An Artist, a Shantyboat, and the Lost History of American River Communities Made from recycled materials, Modes’s shantyboat can weather the storms. WES MODES/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 THE RIVERS OF THE UNITED...

(CNN) — US citizens traveling to Europe without a visa will be a thing of the past come 2021. The European Union announced on Friday that American travelers will need a new type of visa -- a European Travel Information and Authorization System or ETIAS -- to visit the European Schengen Area...

Copy/pasted. Re-post [CW: violence, death, queerphobia] "What's going on in Portland: Portland Police have been exchanging chatty and collusive texts with extremist right wing activist Joey Gibson, whose Patriot Prayer rallies attract white supremacists and function as an excuse for his gang...

GUY AND ANN Junkins, it turns out, would’ve been better off if Guy had just gotten fired. When Comcast announced in March 2016 it was shuttering the Dover, New Hampshire, plant where he’d worked doing logistics and inventory since 2010, Guy—who was in his fifties at the time—expected to find his...

So this article is from a travel blogger perspective, so take that as you will, but I thought there might still be some useful info here for people that are wondering about the possibility of traveling with their cat. -- matt...

Hey, y'all. I know that a lot of you on here are Anarchists like myself. I read this article just now, and honestly, the implications of it are a terrifying thought to me. I know it's long, but please read it, so that you all can better prepare yourselves for the inevitable...

www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2018/dec/17/stringers-rooftop-camps-pb/%3famp&page=all NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS PACIFIC BEACH Vigilantes root out rooftop camps on Garnet Ladder behind the 7-Eleven was the clue "Sanitary conditions are pretty bad." By Delinda Lombardo Dec. 17, 2018 Residents and...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/for-decades-chicago-punk-rockers-embrace-their-unconventional-hobby PBS NewsHour Logo: Home MenuShare For decades, Chicago punk rockers embrace their unconventional hobby Arts Dec 15, 2018 05:10 PM EST By — Jay Shefsky, WTTW Transcript In Chicago, members...

The improbable voyage of an Anchorage man who tried to sail to China to see his wife and son John Martin sailed this 8-foot boat across the Bering Sea and hoped to reach China. He is currently detained in Russia. (Courtesy of Jerry Lamont) John Martin III set out last summer to sail from...

Lofoten by Campervan: Watching the Northern Lights on Haukland Beach NOVEMBER 28, 2018 BY MIKE I glanced out the van window and noticed a faint green coloured mist in the sky. So I took a walk with my camera and came back 3 hours later with these photos… In this post I’ll share with you my...

Man hitches a ride to Quebec City on the back of a transport truck When the driver stopped to check things out, he found the hitchhiker covered in snow CBC News · Posted: Nov 29, 2018 1:34 PM ET | Last Updated: November 29 The truck driver says he had no idea the man was there until a driver...

Still on the road: How hitchhiking has changed in 40 years Amid the tangle of deadlines in modern life, hitchhiking has fallen out of fashion. Simon Calder remembers his best lifts, longest waits, favourite vehicles and the strangers’ stories that will stay with him forever Lonely planet: on...

William Kaphaem and his dog, Lulu, live in an aluminum 14-foot rowboat in a foot of water under the Highway 520 bridge in Seattle. By Erik Lacitis Seattle Times staff reporter Under the concrete pillars of the Highway 520 bridge, anchored in a foot of water, William Kaphaem and his dog, Lulu...