Home Dwellers Tend to Risk Going into Debt than Homeless People

Because the home dwellers are so comfortable on the notion that their houses can still be converted into liquid cash, they spend money more freely. They don’t have to worry as much as those without homes in spending. Sometimes the government will pick up the tab for a home dweller if they get in over their head. The homeless don’t quite have such a luxury.

When you own a piece of property, it can take a long time to lose it to foreclosure. There is an achievement that the home dweller reaches that helps them feel a little more comfortable about their positions. But the price of comfort is sloth. Somehow the drive to succeed is less of a concern and the motivation to make the home more comfortable turns on. Maybe they might want new furniture or to remodel the bathroom.

People who don’t live in homes may appear to be homeless savages. But those same people are some of the most conservative cultures you will ever meet. They learn the value of the dollar and what priorities are more important than others. They aren’t worried about what to put on their wall as an art piece. The landscape is our art and is beautiful enough without needing to niggle about what color to paint the kitchen.

Home dwellers are addicted to the sales pitches and heavily influenced about keeping up with the Jones’s. But sometimes, the Jones’s don’t even live next to the home dwellers. Instead, it’s in their heads thanks to social media, marketing and advertising. Home dwellers learn about things they don’t have through Etsy, Pinterest, Facebook and so on. They are conditioned to search for more comfort in their homes and blindly charge their way into debts.

You don’t have to worry about the debt of the homeless. We know what’s more important in life.

Every City is Like a Different Theater Stage

the layout is different, the people and culture is different. It’s all different, but also the same, but different. Every library I visited has been adjacent to something else that no other library is adjacent to. One of the most unique library locations, in my opinion, is the one inside a mall in Kelso, Washington:

You can shop and surf the Internet. Be careful of the mall security though, they can get strict about where in the mall you can go at times. I was stopped by them.

Some libraries are peaceful in quiet areas, such as in Amanda Parks:

while others get extremely loud, like Winlock, Washington:

They all are a different stage and each city changes my behavior a little bit. Either I can enjoy nice relaxation, or be stressed out. The people are the main reason I would be stressed out, but it’s hard to put all the blame on them, as the design of their cities also influence their behaviors. 

I wish I had studied design and feng shui a little more closely. Then I might have better analytical skills for reading a city. I am mostly left up with my gut feelings about them. Usually my gut feeling alerts me about the safety of the city. I don’t stay for very long in a city or town of it doesn’t appear reasonably safe. I just have to watch the people to determine the safety level. For example, in Kenton, I never stayed the night. Something doesn’t seem right about it:

It’s usually larger cities that have me just passing through and not staying very long. Although, Salem, Oregon seemed pretty relaxed for its size, in the areas I hung out at.

This current city I’m in, Elma, I’m not sure what to think of it exactly. I don’t like its design. The elements of the town really bother me.

Bicycling around Silverton, Oregon and seeing interesting things

7:40 stray dog with leash still attached to its collar

8:53 Hazelnut tree farm

10:46 Gallon House Bridge between Silverton and Mt Angel

14:26 Hops getting to 5 feet tall so far.

18:25 Mount Angel Abbey sits on a hill and looms over area with a strong presence.

17:40 free range chickens

Is it Better to Solo as a Homeless Wanderer or Travel as Group?

I can personally only vouch for traveling solo as a homeless man. That is the only perspective that I know. But I can’t say that traveling by only myself is a good idea. I have many shortcomings that leave me to be much more vulnerable than a traveling group. For instance, the cops feel like they have an upper hand with harassing me:

What if I was with a group instead? Would this police detective have been as rough with me as he was? He certainly would have wanted to call for backup. If I had other people around, they could have added input and insight into the police harassment. Also, they could be good witnesses as well. Instead, I used my camera. But what good is a camera for the immediate encounter? If I got shot, the camera could have easily disappeared after the cops searched my car upon my death.

Many people travel in groups and have been safer for doing so. It was how the American Indians used to live before the white European set up all these landlocked laws. It’s all a matter of priorities of what suits the people in power at the time. Maybe the Indians were not able to ever secure definite lands because of their extremely crazy and aggressive enemies. Or maybe the lands also make it harsh to live on for very long periods of time.

I slept in my car through a Wisconsin winter and almost a second one. In fact, I never actually was able to completely sleep through the first winter. My moms boyfriend decided to be merciful for January, February, and March and let me sleep in their home. Those are the deadliest months to sleep outside in Wisconsin. I suffered many cold injuries on the other months, but at least the nights tended to stay above zero degrees.

Could a group survive out in the Wisconsin winter better? I have to wonder. They certainly would need to get along with each other well enough, because they would be looking at a lot of close contact with each other to keep warm. Or, they might have a little more money to pool together and leave the frozen tundra for the winter.

With advanced technology in 2014, and ever since Henry Ford made cars cheaper, it certainly has become easier for people to solo the homeless lifestyle. If there is trouble, it’s easy to use the power of the car to get out of questionable situations. But the car is not cheap and cops will still look for it. It’s very hard to hide a car so you can sleep at night. It’s much easier to find a hiding spot when you are on foot or use a bicycle. You can rely on the mass transportation system to get around, although it’s a little slower.

I think I would prefer travelling with a group of other homeless people over traveling by myself. But it would need to be very important to be able to get along with everyone. I would expect a lot of stress to occur during travel and everybody would need to be on friendly terms with each other beforehand. Going into a longterm travel arrangement with people you don’t like will end up in an unsuccessful outcome eventually.

What Inspires FunForLouis creator to keep travelling all around the world?

Have we not seen enough of the world from other shows to be satisfied with traveling? Do we not feel comfortable having learned so much about other cultures through other peoples interactions with them? Many shows have paved the way for Youtube Stars like FunForLouis. But, what can FunForLouis truly add to the travel experience to keep it fresh and entertaining.

Some of my most favorite shows like The Amazing Race, Survivor, National Geographic, Survivorman and a whole huge list of productions have taught me about other cultures without leaving the TV.They really edit the footage well to keep everything coming at us in an educational way that was still interesting. But, they also had their shortcomings as well. Many of the shows lost their humanistic appeal and they also seemed to stage much of their travel specifically for TV.

Since technology has changed, the cameras and computers have gotten smaller and easier to carry. The need for a large camera and production crew and shrunken down to the individual. No longer does the star of the show only talk for the camera. They are also the camera operator, writer, production manager and everything else.

There is no longer a need to seek out a TV channel to buy your content. You can simply upload what you made and quickly get it up on Youtube. It’s completely up to you how professional you want your work to look. You are no longer at the mercy of the corporate executives. Although, Youtube still has some standards for allowable content.

People are making a lot less money conducting a travel channel compared to 10 years ago. They have to compete with so many other people now. The technology has made the ability to make recordings even easier to do. The iPhone 6 is so powerful a camera that it can rival the professional cameras.

FunForLouis has become the epitome of an effective travel channel. He is showing us that it is very possible to use TV quality video and submit new incredible content for 12 minutes each episode every day. There is no longer waiting for a week to see the next episode. The episodes are daily. Does this man even sleep? He is doing amazing stuff that I didn’t even was possible for travel and he is also entertaining over 1 million other subscribers on his channel. I just wonder how long he can keep doing this amazing stuff:

Here is his current introduction video. I strongly recommend subscribing to him if you like daily updates:

Traveling is my Drug of Choice. Sandbox Gaming is my Second Favorite Drug.

Whenever I get really bored and desire to take on a different perspective, I prefer to see something interesting at somewhere other than where I am. Also, with the combination of exercise, an exploratory excursion can bring me a high that no drug can match. People want to fight to legalize weed? That is a cause for the lazy, try instead to fight for freedom to move about where you want to.

We have lost many property rights in this day and age. In fact, I feel like I am only limited to roads, trails, and parking lots as remnants of the freedoms we used to own. We seem to take up a lot of space for traveling, at least. There is certainly very limited time to relax on the road. Keeping on the move is nice, because it does satisfy my need to explore. But sometimes, I want to relax within my newly explored realm as well.

The No Camping laws have gotten much worse as the years gone by. Adults are treated like children with the curfews as well. How do you like watching one adult telling another adult that they violated their curfew and will need to see the judge? This system of rules has put a squeeze on the lower class and turned us into victims of the powers of the upper class.

Of course, every city that I visit has its own ordinances. I generally have to find out the hard way what the local ordinance is. When I have walked into the City Halls in the past to ask questions, they respond with scrutiny. For example, if I ask any local City Hall what their laws are on camping or curfew, they immediately start getting defensive like I took a shit on their lawn. They say they don’t like people sleeping outside.

Somehow, you magically turn into a wild animal if you choose not to sleep inside of a home dwelling. Who really cares though? They are just walls. Walls only separate us a little bit from the outside. They are not space stations contsined within their own environments. Although, many of the home environments suffer air stagnation issues and cause many people to become without knowing out.

In fact, I feel much better sleeping outside. I wake up with a more refreshed brain. When I did own a house, my brain always felt groggy in the morning and even during the day, depending how much time I spent in the house. The collection of dust was one of my biggest challenges. I would run a fan and filter and collect all kinds of nasty dust. I actually noticed easier breathing when I ran my dust collector.

Without the homes and appliances to constantly clean them, I rely on nature to clean the environment that I’m in. That is, unless I’m at the library. I still want to see a clean library. Although, if they could set up a nice shelter with just a roof, wifi, and electricity, I would be happy with the library. The closest library I seen to that standard has been in Ferndale, WA where I can access the Internet at a nearby picnic shelter.

I love looking at new and different things I never expected to see before. I started to realize how much I love exploring from playing the game, World of Warcraft. I tended to wander around looking at stuff. I never really joint any raid and I didn’t care about groups that much. I love the sandbox lifestyle in the video. But I love the sandbox aspect of the real world more.

Its too bad that our real world isn’t more like a sand box games. Are there curfews in GTA 5? No, and you can kill any cops that harrass you. Although, your wanted rating level goes up until you are killed yourself, which is a total gaming finisher.

Anyway thanks for reading.

Being Quiet at the Library Series; Brought to you by me. Many Hours of Being Quiet.

Here are some long videos of me being quiet for very long periods of time at various libraries. I can be quiet, but I can’t promise that the people and things around me will not be quiet. There are surprisingly quite a few unquiet moments:

Being Quiet at the South Bend Library

Being Quiet at the Raymond Library, Washington;

Being Quiet in the Westport Library

Being Quiet at the Ocean Shores Library

Being Quiet at Hoquiam, WA Library. Boring Vid. Every half hour a grandfather clock chimes

Being Quiet at Aberdeen Library

Being Quiet at the Forks Library

Being Quiet in the Clallam, WA Library

Being Quiet at Port Angeles Library

Vlog Being Quiet at Library on Newmarket Street

One Glaring Difference Between CR England and the DOT CDL Grant Grays Harbor College?

I was originally rejected for the DD Form 214 Form that I showed to the Financial Aid lady on the campus. She said I showed her form 1, which fails to show my Honorable Discharge information. On the other hand, when I submitted my DD Form 214 to CR England trucking company, he said that everything looks great and is good to go. He never got the information on whether I was honorably discharged or not.

Grays Harbor and CR England both got the same DD Form 214 discharge papers. I got rejected by the college. Luckily, I brought the correct paperwork to her.

I get the feeling the CR England really doesn’t care whether you are in the military or not. They have ways of using people to suit their needs. No one gets rejected by England, but they can certainly trap a victim into a contract for leasing, which pays very little.

Notes: CR England Trucking Company Makes their Money by Leasing the Trucks Out. It sounds like a trap.

A lease out driver gets screwed over the most. $500 per week lease. $200 per month insurance. 7 cents a mile for maintenance. 14 cents per mile for Variable mileage fee. The variable mileage fee is just lost money. So, when you are running out there, you are going to be losing over $1,000 per week just in truck fees. But the fees could get closer to $2000 each week to lease for this company.

The system is designed to keep you out there for months on end. If you go home, those fees continue to come. If you go home for 4 days, it will take you 2 weeks to get out of the hole.

Another fee is Equinox, which wants to charge you $2400 a year to do your taxes.

As a lease driver, you are expected to make 90 cents per mile.

Trainers have to sell the leasing trucks on the drivers. Trainers get a bonus for it. England does not want company trucks. They want to have all their trucks leased because there is no overhead because the driver is now going to be paying for the truck.

If you decide this is not going to work out for you, its going to mess up your credit.

Company drivers go through phase 1 where they make $60 per day. Phase 1 is anywhere between 12000 to 16000 miles. When they have a lot of lease trucks sitting, you can get out of Phase 1 sooner.

Phase 2, you make 11 cents per mile and you may be out there for a month.It varies at 16,000 miles or 20,000 miles, something like that.

Then after Phase 2, you are either going to try to go company, or go lease.

Horizon is Englands lease department. They say its not a part of them, but it’s in their building.

They pay you the 90 cents per mile based on straight as the crow flies. They don’t take into account that there are curves in the road.

You pay for all your fuel. The mileage reimbursement is not enough to cover your fuel.

If you have an accident with this company, they are worried about their CSA 2010, so they will fire you. They will also mess up your deck.

You can’t put a man and a woman in a truck together.

Night

CST

Swift

Don’t work for England, find another trucking company to work for.

Notes taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1woe_DIYHb0

BP Cherry Point Refinery Pays for Birch Bay

This is what pays for the Birch Bay. They have a lot of nice homes along the beach head. I’m just guessing though. It rains a lot around here. I wonder if the refinery has an easier time with all extra rain fall in the area. They have some kind of wetlands reserve that they sponsor and monitor.

You can see the dock for the oil tankers. 2 tankers are parked there right now. The pipe is fairly long. I suppose its best to keep the refinery a good distance away from the beach in case something nasty could happen. They could contain any mess with the wetlands area.