RE: On the Road to Nowhere
Wow, I didn't know about that, amazing! I don't think we have wild rice in Europe.. I wonder..
I tried to "live" on the road in my friends' schoolbus in the states a few years back (but just for 3 months) and was amazed with the open spaces compared to here! You would have a hard time finding parking spaces with a big bus in most places in Europe (though possible, I have friends who lives in big trucks here), but it's still fairly easy.. We didn't have so much problems parking, though you see many signs with camping forbidden..
Maybe we don't have as many great foraging options.. Mostly walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, all sorts of greens, blackberries, cherries, apples.. Also super easy to get oranges in the south - not so much wild though, but from people who has too many!
Foraging cultivated things people don't want works too! I have harvested Olives too from abandoned groves in California and processed them. And I've also harvested Persimmons and Citrus that was planted. It's more like 'gleaning' then!
The only thing about the open spaces is that everything is such a far drive. I'm alone a lot, or never alone. It takes awhile (and gas $) to get places.