Having done a fair bit of research on shelter - and particularly light, portable shelter which will be easy to put together for someone coming from overseas - I've settled on a tarp anchored to my vehicle on one side, propped with tarp poles on the other and anchored to the ground on the remaining t...

It might take a little work...

It's curious that much of the western world has retained vestigial rites of passage - that is to say culturally anticipated rites of passage - but wedded them to money in the majority of cases. First legal purchase of alcohol, first driving license, first car. These are all designed to remind you wh...