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If you do any exploration in the astral planes then here is a python code to generate dead god islands. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQNyOtYyHj8uTaWJwdlgWdFXZvbg14qs/view?usp=sharing

This guy can plan wind speed, weather and encounters on long sea voyages. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j1C8u1MDlO_upIDRMqv2blv6Btk7qCwJ/view?usp=sharing

This is just wind speed and weather 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Auskl8vQ2oHJqMm2Q8Pn4CqSVJFrZH9P/view?usp=sharing

This is just singular encounters 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mmk_AOsOO69jYo5qd9GFpZ7pE7GFBiFm/view?usp=sharing

2 hours ago, VonVilkee said:

 Do not, I repeat do not, get anywhere near glitter you will have to burn your pack...

I aint going there for that. My aunt got hospitalized after she flew there. She didn't know she had pneumonia, and she had to be put on 24 hour life support and dialysis.   

Vision was kinda boring. 

But Thanos kicked butt. I hope they let him chill and do yoga and watch the sun set. 

Surprised that Downey Junior survived considering his pricey contract. 

The guy guarding the soulstone was the villian from Guardians of the Galaxy 1 right? 

16 hours ago, InfestedKerrigan said:

Are you still in NoLa? I know some peep from Colorado living there.

Nah, I am staying with some ole friends of my uncles in Santa Fe New Mexico. 

Its crazy I spent a few days with the most stereotypical right folks in Texas. And now I am with probably the ultimate left side of the spectrum. 

In Texas, this father had a series of questions he had to ask his daughter about the boy she started seeing. 

"Where does he live?" 

"Does he drive?" 

"Does he work?"-construction

"Does he go to school?"-most high school boys in texas drop out and work construction 

"Is he white?" 

And not to be political but these people couldn't fathom that I could even think of voting for "a dirty n-word from Kenya Barack Hussain Obama"

Yet they picked up a hitchiker and let him stay a night or two at their house. 

From Santa Fe I am heading west towards Vegas. 

On 4/25/2018 at 1:57 PM, DisruptiveConduct said:

its so different these days.

they now have strains that will give you a majority of the health benefits with little to no high/buzz.

and they come in all forms. no need to smoke anything any more.

happy to see you stay open minded!

 Look into CBD, its the health benifits with no high or buzz. 

In New Orleans I ran into some folks in the back yard of the place I was staying at. Turns out they film equestrian events and they were a man short. 

This event also happened to be in the same direction I was going. So not only did I get a ride but I got a small bit of employment filming horses jumping and stuff. 

It's a whole different world of people that do that. The parking lot turned into a classy trailer camp. 

I also hate horses. I think they are useless. Like big trucks(unless of course you use them for farming or hauling thing). 

Well if you need anything, I am more than willing to help with anything. 

Lets get a beer? 

I left Niceville on sunday to try and get to New Orleans. 

I arrived yesterday. This is a 3 hour trip that took 3 dayyyyys. Up north you can stand on the side of the road and people will pick you up. But in the south you almost have to be aggressive and go to gas stations and rest stops and ask people where they are going and if they have room. 

First time I got to ride on the interstate in the back of a truck tho so that was fun. 

New Orleans is nice so far. I snuck into the National World War 2 museum. Glad I didnt pay because it was a great museum but I already knew a lot about world war 2 so it wasn't something I would have gotten any worth out of if I had paid 30 some dollars. 

Ill try and add more photos to this site directly but in the meantime my Instagram is @nerdyhitchiker 

I hope he has cool rules. 

I have made it to Milton Florida. My best friends sisters wedding is tomorrow and I am so glad to see my best friend. 

I'll be honest I've missed some foods and some other things but I missed this guy the most. 

Also florida is stupid hot. Also stupid humidity. I would have to embrace nudity to live down here. Be some crazy naked guy living in the bayou......Kinda tempting  

Also on a happy note, I volunteered with a group called permaculture action network. 

They helped revitalize a womans community garden in a food desert in west atlanta where the vacancy in the neighborhood is higher than 50s. We rebuilt her greenhouse, helped build a retaining wall for the creek, planted trees and helped clean up. The ammount of garbage is insane.

They also teamed up with Lead to Life which melts down guns confiscated by police and uses the metal to make farming tools. 

Such an amazing group of people. Made me feel like I was home in the PNW. 

Also Georgia has a law where they can't destroy weapons confiscsted but they don't want to sell them. So the Georgia police is sitting on thousands of weapons. 

Also I keep running into weird drama. 

In Kentucky I had a run in with middleaged woman having a midlife crisis and not handling it in any productive way. I am talking one hid her problems, another cheated on her husband and the last was hammered by 5 and had dinner with her family at 6. Did I mention the ones husband was in a bar across the street.,

I had a ride with a college girl and her high school sister and her high school friends. Omg Becky did you hear what....sigh. I do not miss that. But on the plus side they did know how to car dance to some cheesy songs. 

Then I show up at a place couch surfing. The house is two couples and they are currently suoer fueding. I spend two nights there and one ended up being with each of the couples. The morning after the second night I saw then interact. Damn people can be so so fake. I dont understand how neither party just extracts themselves from such an obviously toxic situations. So many people just make excuses. 

I have had an amazing string of luck with rides. 

In charleston I got dropped off and walked maybe 2 blocks towards the interstate. And someone pulled over. I just had my sign on my backpack. 

So I get to Savannah. I see the city, we come back. Toss back some brewskies. Oh man, one guy has to leave late because he is traveling? Where too? BOOM ATLANTA. 

I get to Atlanta. I am couch surfing and come  back to cook some food. The interior design traveling salesman roomate comes in. Super excited to have a weekend off. He has to travel on Monday. To Florida.

Honestly I kinda miss sitting on the side of the road. Kinda takes the whole "ya never know what chocolate you're gonna get" thing away. 

P.s. I really want some chocolate now. And has anyone tried Praline? I know it sounds like a drug but apparently its made from pecans or something. God its good. 

3 minutes ago, JMGraham said:

Just found this thread - holy smokes, Eli, this is the best! Sounds like an incredible adventure thus far. I hope you're safe and that all continues to go well.

Thanks so much for sharing this!

Jim I created this in part to keep you informed! 

Also I now own a machete. I did not buy a machete, I was given one. Because I Got a ride from a nice lady who proceded to describe EVERY [BIG BAD SWEAR WORD] SNAKE WHICH COULD KILL ME. I HATE SNAKES. So after seeing the pure horror on my face, she gave me a machete. 

I hope people still give me a ride after I am drenched in blood from fighting off this horde of snakes that are apparently set on a mission to kill me. 

8 hours ago, Romans832 said:

Wow!
Awesome.

Very kind of them to pray over you.

I was really quite shocked by it. Came out of the blue. 

Big day of firsts. 

Left Richmond this morning and have ended up in Halifax. If ya havent heard of Halifax well neither had I before today. 

First I finally got harrassed by a state trooper. Belck. Annoying. I was in front of the "no pedestrian" sign by a good ways. Le sigh. Whatever floats ya boat man. 

Second a plumber and an electrician (sounds like a great start of a joke), gave me a ride in their work van. They were real nice and decided to go to the farthest job they had to give me the best ride. And the plumber didnt have any weed but he did offer me heroin. I passed up on that adventure. 

Had to jump in the window of one guys truck because his door didn't open.

Finally I was reminded of how universal kindness is. I got invited into a man's home, he offered me a place to stay the night and a warm dinner and place to sleep. His family basically accepted me as one of them. They even prayed over me and my journey at their evening devotion. These kind folks also drink raw milk, beleive the earth is flat and dont trust vaccines to name a few of their ideals. 

I left Lexington planning on going to Charleton west Virginia. 

Halfway through the day a truck driver picks me up and offers me a ride. Turns out he was heading to South Carolina via a stop in Pennsylvania. So that's where I headed, super nice guy if a little off once in a while. Ended up offering me a job if I ever made it to his neck of the woods in texas. He was hauling pipe bomb explosives for mining so I helped him load and unload stuff and he fed me ihop. 

It was hilarious because he facetimed his 8th grade science teacher in the middle of dinner and had a conversation. I swear he called half the people in his phone book to tell him of the crazy hitchhiker he picked up. 

I had him leave me in Richmond Virginia because I wanted to explore the city. I found a guy who has couch surfers. Super cool dude. We ate subs and talked about Dungeons and Dragons. Funny enough he is probably going to be moving to Seattle to go to UW 

On 3/24/2018 at 1:15 PM, Raindog said:

This looks exactly like a map I drew a year back. 

I have managed to have a place to stay everytime the weather have been terrible. Which is quite nice as everytime I camp the weather is great. 

Downside is I always have to explore cities in dreadful weather. Lexington Kentucky had snow/slush coming down all of yesterday. 

I stayed in a penthouse in Saint Louis which was crazy cool it was the 9th floor of some building. 

St. Louis has a boat load of free museums in forest park which was an absolute delight to go to. I went to the zoo and it was decent. They also had an art, science...and I feel like there was a third or fourth one. I obviously didn't go to those. 

The soldier monument and a few super old buildings I wanted to check out were closed for repairs. 

Its a nice city, but I avoided all the bad sections of town and heard quite a few stories of the violence. The entrance to the penthouse on the ground floor was ringed with bullet holes. 

On 3/5/2018 at 8:59 PM, paxmiles said:

Lol. I burnt out on this one. Been playing other owned games that I've not gotten all the achievements yet (Been doing Dragonage: Inq, and, mass effect andromeda, which are actually very similar games to Elex).

With Elex, I was disappointed in lots of areas, but in hindsight, all my issues are related to problems that arrise after the first 100 hours of gaming. And since most games these days don't even have 100 hours of content, it's kinda petty to complain about it I suppose. 

What problems......

I would like to apolagize to the old man I lied to. Yes I like getting my [swear word] sucked. You just aren't quite my type. 

So this is all super exciting because In the last few days I have been exposed to a multitude of people who all have jobs that I would love to have. 

I stayed with someone in Tulsa and he and his roommate were aerospace engineers and their roommate was an analytic computer programmer. They told me about their jobs, gave me corn (which I suspect was only so they could all text me corny jokes as I am on the road, which as turned out to be hilarious). Great guys, gave me great camping suggestions and we watched hockey. 

So I get on the road from Tulsa headed to St. Louis and a rental car picks me up, turns out this fellow is a contractor who works for the food industry on evaluating if various locations are good for opening up a new location. So today he has let me shadow him all day and is basically teaching me how he dos his job. Its absolutely fascinating and the numbers and analytics are fascinating. I never thought Id end up job shadowing while hitchhiking. 

On another note I have had a whole slew of folks that have just opened up to me with their life stories. Which is absolutely amazing to hear. I have heard and counseled numerous strangers out of the blue. I really find it delightful to hear people's life stories and help them talk out their problems and troubles. 

One fellow, was just on his way back to work after proposing to a woman he had never dated. He had known her for years and for the past 3 of those god had been telling him that she was the one he was to marry. So a few months ago he dropped everything and proposed to her, she said yes and they are getting married may 5th. 

Also I am think about writing a D&D adventure where the party signs on to a ship but the captain keeps changing. 

I think its great because it gives good models for Star Wars RPG's