My Desires - musiny Thought I would share my most recent blog post, figured some of you might be interested in it. I have been thinking about this for a while now and it is turning into a goal of mine.
ive wondered the same but i feel like it'll get old, tiresome, and lonely after a while. If youre not born into it, as a culture, as a way of life, you'll have a hard time adjusting. I think its our nature to wanna get away from the hustle and bustle of the city, pollution, assholes, cars, etc.. But i dont think many of us would really want to do it. Many of the people in the country who live off the land, you ask them.. do you like it here? do you wanna stay? They'll say yes because they know no better. I think the ideal solution is to own a house in the city AND in the country, so you can retreat as you wish and do whatever to take the load off.. I think movies and tv make the situation a little too easy to swallow, and i think its alot harder than we think.. you really have to prepare yourself for such a journey, not only to live like a woodsman and survivalist, but also to prepare yourself for the loneliness that follows.
I think the same thing every day. I'ver been into this shit since the early eighties. Need a few bookmarks? I not only am thinking it, but actively persueing it. My latest thing is experimentaion with overunity devices and power generation. I was blessed with being able to live off the grid in the mountains for a year. I made my own power via my truck, had solar hot water, and it was a blast! It's easy to do, that's what astounded me the most, the ease at which it can be done. I took an Askoll electric motor yesterday, and was able to turn it fast enough by hand to creat 2 cvolts of power, when I got it spinning fast with a drill, it produced 15.7 volts, 1/2 amp....that's enough to charge a 12 volt battery. Currently I have two jobs lined up to creat solar heating for a pool and hot tub. I'm headed to being as green as I can and promoting green tech any chance I get. And Torx, my man, there's not enough time for the lonelies up in them thar hills. When I was up in the mountains, I occupied my time panning for gold, building trails, creating new power sources, floating around on lakes (fish fer supper!), cathing squirrels and wabbits....not killing them, just practicing catching them, damming small creeks to form pools. There wasn't enough hours in the days. The winter, when there was a couple feet of new snow was a bit of a challenge, but the pure total silence of the mountains were awesome. That one year, totally changed my whole existence, not just " my life ", but my very core being.
Sounds great, until he's sick and needs a doctor. Other than that, the off-the-grid life sounds pretty appealing.
^LMAO, way to ruin a thread msp whiskas.. floating around on lakes (fish fer supper!) yea, we all remember that picture of you floating around on the lake with your shlong hanging out, buahahaha!!
I am planning on getting myself several acres of land and living in the middle of it. I won't be growing my own food or anything. The criteria is that I will be able to get up at 7am, walk out onto my back porch in underwear and shoot skeet, and no cops be called.
On a slightly related note, my brother-in-law's brother finished his first batch of bio-diesel yesterday. He's testing it in an old beater truck they have today.
I guess most of you misread or misunderstood my intentions. The goal is not to isolate myself completely from everyone else, just to get of the grid as they say. Not to be dependent on others. I got the idea from my dad who is looking into a similar lifestyle. He wants to get some land, build a log cabin on it, and live out there. The transition to off the grid wouldn't be instant. I would ultimately like to make a family and live out there. Who knows though, I might never get a chance to do it. Its not like I am against living in the city or anywhere for that matter, I just think it would be nice to be away from everything.
Yup, off the grid doesn't mean living in the wilds. Although, for me, that's how I needed it to be. A person can live off-grid, rith in town, except for that sewage thing. With a combination of technologies, you'd never have to pay another electric bill, yet have all the power you'd ever need. You wouldn't even have to burn wood for heat....just to keep it green. it's highly possible to live off-grid and have everything you have in the way of electronics right now. And Torx, I usually didn't even have to wear cloths at all uppin them thar hills. one night I was even shadowed by a cougar while skinny hiking (like skinny-dipping, only on dry land) during a full moon. That was a rather vulnerable feeling....but the cat kept about 50 yards behind me. So I was dressed much more than usual for that picture.
I drive around to different towns, passing elaborate houses in the middle of nowhere, and quite honestly think to myself...why? I like my city dwelling life and couldn't even begin to think about living in the middle of nowhere.
I've kind of done for 3 months, when I was on an outdoor semester through school: http://home.comcast.net/~sbpc/Part01.html Lived without an address, a phone, internet, newspapers, stable electricity or running water. We did trips into the outside world but that was how we lived. It was great, one of the best times of my life. I'd be interested in going back to it again at some point, it is a truly rewarding experience.
Lived without an address, a phone, internet, newspapers, stable electricity or running water. We did trips into the outside world but that was how we lived. It was great, one of the best times of my life. I'd be interested in going back to it again at some point, it is a truly rewarding experience. yea but you had chicks to fuck when you were bored. i really dont think chapel will have that.
In the whole year I was up there, I can not truely say, I was ever bored at all. Relaxed, kicked back, awestricken, amazed.....but never bored.
Why live off-grid? YouTube - Free Energy another Inconvenient Truth i met an old man that moved tothe area from Az. He lived down there off-grid for 20+years. he designed the home in these pix and wants me to deck it for him. this home is ripe for solar and is as high tech construction as is posible with structural foam panel construction. i'm going to pay strict attention to what he does with this place, it's awesome and the potential for OG living is there. Out in the woods R-30 walls R-50 cieling The deck and window areas facing sunrise, for morning heating
PBS airs the ultimate 'off the grid' documentary call Alone In The Wilderness every once in a while. A guy goes into middle-of-nowhere Alaska and ends up living there for over 30 years. You can find the dvd on tpb acutally.
watch "Into the Wild" and you'll see how loneliness affects a person. and chapel, i was just making a joke because if youre in the middle of nowhere you wont find anyone around.. eh?? unless you stumble upon a nudist camp, LMAO
That's the point. I had a nudist camp of one . There's a special place a person can get to in thier mind, when you know beyond a doubt, that you're the only human in a 20-30 miles radius. That brand of solitude allows a person to get down to the very core of thier own existence and sort things out. I'm a real loner at heart, so it wasn't that difficult to get past the dependence on other humans. That way to go about living is not for most people....it'll drive them batshit crazy. But, for me, it was a needed break and a feeling of freedom that very few people ever get to feel. Being in that situation with a like-minded soulmate would be heaven on earth IMHO. There's no discribing the utter awesomeness of waking up at 4AM, during a full moon. Deep in the old growth, on a mountainside with the full moon directly overhead, no pollution of any kind, and, full pot of camp coffee taking in the magical sight of a subalpine forrest glowing as if in twilight by the moon. There is no drug that can take a person to that spot....I've tried them all and nothing came close. That year will be cherished as long as I live. Yet, off on a different related tangent: YouTube - Free Energy and Zero Point Pt1
