can anyone recommend me a good bike for bikepacking? A bike that can handle gravel roads, and offroad, but that is also suitable for traditional bike touring? Preferably also one that can be used as daily comuter to/from work.

Question. How far off the beaten path do you guys live? Closest town to me is roughly 15-20 miles on roads like these. Wife loads up on groceries, like two carts worth to make less trips. Aside from not having cell reception. I love it up here. I feel my heart pressure drop when I get to the treeline road to my neck of the woods. I enjoy my weirdo neighbors. lands cheap out there too. And i can literally shoot game from my porch

Whats your favourite climate?

In my heart there are two men. The first is primal and wild, a forest dweller living in defiance of nature as a triumphant victor of resource conquest. He can build fire with his hands, slay prey, and reroute river systems. The second owes the bank money and wage slaves away to live a dull, unadventurous, and sterile, life completely devoid of exuberance and vitality. Anons in similar spirits, how do you cope?

one of my favorite things about wandering through the wilderness is that I can serenade the world with many a merry tune without the mush brained npc normcattle on the street fluoride staring at me

>having a look at white sands national park
>look slightly north
>White Sands missile range
Most American shit I've ever seen. A fucking military missile range in a national park.

Hiking would be a lot more fun if private property were abolished.

I got stung by a bee yesterday while watering flowers at work. I felt really tired on the way home, which I heard was normal, then proceeded to eat dinner (I was sneezing by this point), go to sleep earlier than usual, and then woke up an hour later from my "nap". I sat up and felt super congested, sneezy etc, with what could best be described as an "allergy cough" you'd get from something like hay fever. But I never once felt like I couldn't breathe (save for the congestion) and had no feeling of shortness of breath when not breathing out of my nose. I took some ibuprofen and the sneeziness went away soon after.
>tl;dr Should I still see an allergist? I work outdoors and while I've been stung before I don't wanna randomly drop dead from something as preventable as a bee sting.

has anyone ever encountered one of these things? and also, how do i avoid getting killed by one?

Recently moved to JC, TN from the west coast, life is good here. While I enjoy my comfy times and walking to the grocery store again, I don't know where to start exploring here.

Any tips, do I start here in Appalachia or do I go right to the Smokys? Any good day hikes?