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has he ever even been there?

experienced it once back in 89 I think. between little rock and Texarkana in a heavy snowstorm and went to thundering and lightning was flashing vividly. thought it was cool as hell.

my wife used a collapsible wading stick for flyfishing. it goes in a little bag, you pull it out, shake it, it turns into a four foot staff with a steel point on the end. I used it a bit after she died when my leg was acting up. if you look a bit crippled, no one says boo about a four foot...

you shove spinach at me I very well mighta shot a gun or two in your direction(hate spinach) joke aside, you tried to do the right thing. no matter what happened, you tried.

I looked into it very thoroughly as my wife was dying. thought maybe id go world cruising. incredibly expensive I thought.

once my wife was gone there was a period I didn't wanna live anymore. I had been (and still am) in constant pain physically and it just all seemed to snowball into this huge mountain and I thought about it for days and days. every morning I got up and I faced myself in the mirror and I told...

i can knock a buzzard off a gut wagon at a thousand yards... seriously, though I have no skillsets like you envision, the idea is plain awesome.

50 and wondering how I got here!

id like to do it but im far from having a facility I could offer like a hostel. at this time anyone who makes it to the gate gets fed and gets to sleep out of the weather. it might not be fancy, maybe nothing more than a barn floor, but the offer is there. problem is, im far off normal traveler...

i reckon that's so. I wasn't trying to sound like a dick, just wanted her to know there would most likely not be a reply

did you realize the original post is almost four years old and the only post that member ever made?

Reno is fareakin COLD to a Texas boy!

rain here tonite, just spatters for a few. temps in the sixties. big rain tomorrow but not gonna be very cold.

im in east texas with brilliant sunshine and day time highs of mid fifties up into the seventies. there will be periods of rain and cold down into the twenties at night but there really isn't anything one could call winter here. we work outside every day on the farm that the rain doesn't stop us...

we seriously plan on building something like this. along with the solar, gas gennys, possible hydro power from the creek and maybe someday even a steam engine this will contribute to our power supply

time to house up and get ready to be a mom.

I am not on the farm yet. am currently held up by engine problems with my one ton so I cant pull the trailer over there. bad diesel from local station. got a bunch of us and we are probably going to all sue the station owner. so far im out about 400 bucks and the truck isn't running yet...

im about to physically move onto my place. had enough of driving over there every day. got 570 watts of solar and 450 amp/hours of battery(4 Trojan t 105 three months old) and two 3.5kw generators. got little wood heater but not sure how to deploy it in this travel trailer. very excited...

a pack that is sort of modular where you can unzip it and lay it out flat and have all your stuff in different zippered compartments. so rather than dropping pack and rummaging through big compartment everything will be in its own zippered compartment. this, plus plenty of outside zippered...

was like that for many years. now im on a place im calling home, bought equipment, ripping brush out and cutting trees for firewood and to have clear land for next springs crops. im astonished at how little I look to the road now. good luck in your travels!

most diesels are no bigger than gas engines and there are numerous examples of diesels being converted to gas and vice versa by manufacturers. for instance we once had a little tractor that had a triumph engine that had been converted from gas to diesel. and I currenly have a ford tractor...

hopping a train is just like flying on the airlines except there are no flight attendants with those little bags of nuts.

https://www.google.com/#q=prickly+pear+recipes enjoy, prickly pear is one of the best things about desert environments out west. just be SURE to use gloves to pick them thick leather gloves. you can sear em on a fire to burn off the stickers, but don't even touch one without it being cleaned...

taters work, roasting ears are good. plain ole white rice is good. course ya need a pot with a lid for rice(slowly pour white rice into boiling water. ratio is two water, one rice. stir it when it all gets in for a moment, reduce to slow simmer, put on lid and wait 20 minutes[longer above...

why he blow up his place like that?

good stuff to know. thanks.

morris day and the time

no telling what the price tag is on that build! its cool looking that's for sure.

ok yall, here is what you all just read. "I was barefoot and walked in some fucking mud" the end...

state parks are bad news unless your standard couple with 2.5 kids all new equipment in a clean SUV and all wear brand new ll bean clothing. then you go in and set up a tent and throw some wood in a fire pit and pretend you are a wilderness family for two nights. national forests are much...

im still up in the air on permanent structure. I don't have a lot of space for permanent structures though the place is 32 acres most of it is flood plain with only three spots accessable in the event of a big flood. one is the entrance and I hope to get as much as 3/4 acre leveled enough for...

they didn't just "show up" they were commissioned to be manufactured and installed by a construction company but the origin of the plans and the money is anonymous. there is an actual Stonehenge in hunt county texas. its out in a field beside one of the roads by the guadelupe river. cool...

just like it says. four Trojan t 105 gives me about 450 amp/hour of battery. the two 285 watt panels are over 24 volts but we will use that for figuring. when sent through the MTTP controller it yields up under absolute optimum conditions about 923 watts at 14.8 volts which is the voltage...

i carry : internet air card, automatic satellite finding antenna, three laptops right now, 4 Trojan t105 batteries, 30 amp mttp charge controller, a 3000 watt modified sine wave inverter 2500 watt pure sine wave inverter with 50 amp battery charger two 285 watt solar panels...

I read kon tiki when I was a kiddo. loved the tale. my teacher would send me to the high school library during our reading hour and I would pick books out and read them. the librarian would not let me check out the book kon tiki because "428 pages is too long for someone your age" I came...

it is either bivy or bivvy. the ECWS sleeping system has been talked about extensively on this board.

good post! I saw the little boat from japan at san Francisco. the story is fascinating. he told no one what he was going to do. you go have as much fun as you want with whatever size boat you want. when I mentioned I thought it a bit small , that's small for ME.

gosh, and here I was thinking 35 was a little small just for Galveston day cruises and occasional key west/carribean runs!

state parks are intensely patrolled and usually smaller tracts of land. some have overnight camping and some are only day use. either way, unless its a huge chunk of land that you can establish is NOT heavily patrolled then don't do it

I agree with everything said in the above post. with the prices now it will be no big deal to see these on people's backs so its not like your gonna be cast as some kind of crazy survivalist for having one.

thank you matt, this kind of information will come in handy when I make my bid for world domination. seriously, good info.

ok, got it.

it double posted

the earth hasn't even noticed there is such a thing as homo sapiens.

i like it. I ve literally felt what you are talking about. moreso than the washing away of the dirt is the washing of the spirit in rain. now lets go to starbucks.

uhm, the light skinned peoples developed in cold climates. darker skins come from hotter climates. I think you are angling for some kind of primitive lifestyle. giving up all the trappings of modern civilization and going into the wild alone, with nothing but your brain to survive. is...

the subject of different foods /drinks unique to regions or areas or certain cities came up in chat and it was mentioned it might make a good subject for a thread so here it is. tell us of foods from your home region that you know are somewhat unique to that area. don't need to get into too...

ding ding went the bell in my head when I saw this. I need south east texas region specific information fairly soon and seeing this post reminded me to get looking.

pack a bag and head out the door. that's about how difficult it is... pick a direction and go. no one is gonna take you by the hand and lead you... head for Idaho and find me somewhere on the banks of a trout stream. that's where ill be starting day after tomorrow.

this is saturday july 27. i am thinking about leaving kennewick next sunday. one more week should give me plenty time to finish up the stuff on the trailer and truck and finish visiting with my brother. so probably sunday aug 4 ill be pulling out in time to get to spokane and a full hookup...