Pre-Road Experience Planning: Overview

The purpose, or mission, of this experience is to attempt and explore the possibility and practicality of living, sustainably, on the road for extended periods of time. Things that will be considered are fuel, food, power, sleeping, legality issues, money sources when needed, sanitation, waste, among other things. This will be achieved by not necessarily any one particular way, but rather, with an umbrella of ideas and strategies, paired with the experience of discretion of the person who is adopting and using them.

No one strategy will work everywhere, such as hunting in New York City, so the spectrum of ideas that are outlined, discussed, and developed, should be wide enough to include any foreseen situation or scape. This is to say, the purpose of the doctrine should be to identify as many differing settings as possible e.g. cities, nature, mountains, small cities, particular cities. The particulars have no range on how broad or narrow each of these settings can be. We may find living in one particular city needs it's own set of rules and behaviors, and on the contrary, we may find that a set of rules might hold true for an entire geographical area.

For the sake of starting, the setting will be broken into two categories which I find different enough to deny any possibility of similarities: Nature and Cityscape. From these two categories, we will attempt to spawn as complete a list as possible in order to further develop and find new methods for surviving, sustainably and indefinitely, on the road.

The first thing to do in each of these two major settings, is to identify and categorize the major needs of the general individual e.g food, power, water, shelter, transportation. From these categories we can then proceed to hypothesize strategies, discover new ones, and then develop upon them and improve them depending on the situation. This will allow, also, for us to organize strategies so that we can practice and apply those which seem obvious in one situation, but maybe would have never been tried in another. Then, we can weigh and measure their success in different settings.

The overall method will be to start with the basic necessities of life, and work our way towards conveniences and pleasures as seen necessary.