being placed on these areas, all the time, because people want them protected. The society in which you live has no interest in seeing the occasional Daniel Boone wannabe living out there, killing small animals for food, competing with bears and other wildlife for their food, and leaving their effluent in the woods for somebody else to step in. In any case, you still don't sound to me like the sort of person who would have the skills to manage in the wilderness, long-term. Tents are fine, short-term. Long-term, you'll need to replace your tent fairly regularly, they don't last long with constant use. They can also be really miserable places to live when you get a month or so of steady rain...as you will. A tent would solve your problem about your CDs though...they'd be stolen within a week, and the player with them. Then you'd be free. With luck, they won't steal the tent as well. I gather that your alcoholism doesn't trouble you at all...but it is going to make being homeless a more pitiable experience. Drunks are so easy to roll for their remaining cash. The drink will prove as big a block to getting any decent jobs as a minor criminal record will. Why aren't you addressing that? A charge and conviction that has already happened, you can't change. You're stuck with that. You're not stuck with your drinking habits...unless you choose to be. If you choose to cease being pathetic and sort yourself out,