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Maybe this has been done before but I enjoy making these. You might have seen the ones I made for /trv/ and /out/ some years back. I need your ideas for achievements. Think of a clever title for each one if you can. Some examples: Patience: Wait >24 hours at a single spot Formula 1: Hitch a...

I passed through a few years back just to spend one night, but it seemed like a really cool place to hang out for a summer. Does anyone have more info about the place? For those who don't know, Sardinia has the best beaches anywhere in Europe and since the '60s or '70s one beach in the far north...

Anyone seen a skinny Brummie in his '40s, extremely well dressed with a mouthful of smashed teeth loitering around service stations around the southeast of England? Or better yet, are you him? I didn't buy into the whole of your story about working the dream life in the Cayman Islands, and I was...

The story is about an artist who makes a living selling portraits on the street. I have zero firsthand experience with this lifestyle so it's hard to write about. So if you've ever sold jewelry, art, anything to support yourself, I just have one question: what are some everyday...

First of all I can recommend hitchhiking in Oman without reservation. It's so common the locals don't even bother signaling to cars; they just stand at the edge of the road, which gives me the creeps when I'm driving. Interestingly, most of them are expat workers from southern Asia and the...

Tony Pro submitted a new file to the StP library: The Tramp's Handbook (1903) - A guide to tramping in Edwardian England Click here for more information on this file.

I know I'm not the only one for whom this is true -- "I didn't feel immersed in an alien culture until I realized in Morocco you're supposed to hitchhike with your index finger, not your thumb." An Italian told me that as we were trying to hitchhike out of Marrakech. "You read my mind," I told...