Archive for October, 2009:

Thank You Thursday Forthcoming!

{ Posted on Oct 31 2009 by Pete Eyre }
SAN JOSE, CA - As you may have noticed, we didn't get a Thank You Thursday up a couple of days ago and didn't get any content up yesterday. We apologize! We've been running around quite a bit here in ...Read More »

David Humphries on Politics, Anarcho-Capitalism & the Free State Project

{ Posted on Oct 31 2009 by Pete Eyre }
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - After we left Portland we continued south on I-5 toward San Francisco. On the way, we stopped in Roseburg, OR, where met Nick "Nicky the heel" Puglia, who, like a few others thus far on the ...Read More »

Portland Free Store

{ Posted on Oct 29 2009 by Adam Mueller }
SUNNYVILLE, CA - Last week while on a tour of Portland with Nick and Will we came across the Free Store, which is a short bus converted into a store. It was actually put on our radar before our arrival ...Read More »

Amber Gunn of EFF on Free Markets, Unions and Activism

{ Posted on Oct 28 2009 by Adam Mueller }
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - While  in Washington we stopped by the Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) for a tour and interview with Amber Gunn. They're hard at work on several projects including; voter integrity, teachers vs. unions and a few transparency ...Read More »

Coffee Strong is Hub for Anti-War Movement

{ Posted on Oct 27 2009 by Adam Mueller }
PORTLAND, OR - While at our Seattle meetup the MHD crew got a tip from Rachel Hawkridge about Coffee Strong, an Anti-War coffee shop ran by former military personnel and located just blocks from Fort Lewis. We arrived Sunday morning ...Read More »

J. Nick Puglia discusses Fr33 Agents

{ Posted on Oct 26 2009 by Jason Talley }
While in Portland the crew of the Motorhome Diaries had the chance to spend some quality time with our friend and editor-in-chief of Fr33Agents.com, J. Nick Puglia. While Adam drove us to a to a couple of bars (covered here) ...Read More »

Libertarian Nurse Ed Wood Decries Governmental Involvement in Healthcare

{ Posted on Oct 25 2009 by Pete Eyre }
REDDING, CA - Last Wednesday at our Portland meetup we had the chance to connect with Ed Wood who works as a nurse in Portland area hospitals. Based on his experiences there - seeing the incentives inherent in a system ...Read More »

Thanks Portland

{ Posted on Oct 24 2009 by Jason Talley }
OREGON - We rolled into Portland on Tuesday the 20th of October and parked outside the home of our friend Erica. We met her early in our trip at the Atlas Liberty Forum in Los Angeles and decided to chill ...Read More »

Thank You Thursday: Portland Edition

{ Posted on Oct 23 2009 by Adam Mueller }
UPDATE FROM MHD - We're really sorry to be posting Thank You Thursday, on Friday, a day late. Yesterday after taking a tour of Portland and the surrounding areas we ran into some mechanical problems with MARV. He's currently in ...Read More »

Temporary Setback for MARV

{ Posted on Oct 23 2009 by Pete Eyre }
PORTLAND, OR - Last night just before I ran out of power on my MacBook I was able to publish this similarly-titled post to MHD's Tumblr account: … after a great day in/around Portland with Nick “Nicky The Heel” Puglia meeting ...Read More »