RM> He has some solar cells and he should have a wind generator up by now and
RM> he's doing pretty well. Lighting is by combination gas and 12v electric,
RM> lots of LED stuff, and the fridge and stove, are propane rather than
RM> electric.

MH>That sounds awesome!  Really great to hear those success stories and the deta
  > on how everything was completed.

It is amazing the options you have to the norm if you look into it.

MH>Even having a place that is away from neighborhoods, etc, is nice to retreat
  > I have thought about buying a place near the mountains or something as a pla
  > to retreat to now and then.  I could see myself wanting to stay there full t
  > and sell the main pad, though.

My friend above I have known since we both bought motorcycles in high school
about 50 years ago. He and I went in totally different directions after
school, him getting a telecom job and keeping it until he was in his 60's even
though, due to family inheritances, he could have retired in semi-luxury much
sooner. We get together now and then and he tends to introduce me to other
friends of his as a bit of a curiosity, not in a bad way, just in the spirit
of me taking 'the path less traveled by'. I worked fairly hard and amassed a
bit of a stake and then more or less disappeared into the woods, supposedly
for a year or so originally, but 35 years later I'm still here..

Surprisingly not as many people as you might expect think I'm nuts. Most wish
they could have done something similar..   B)

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