What One Man Learned Living Alone in the Wilderness for 40 Years

“I’ve spent the majority of my life living outside the conventions of mainstream society, and I’ll tell you what I think is weird, and it ain’t the hermit. It’s how entire generations of people have been conned into believing that there is only one way to live, and that’s on-grid, in deepening debt, working on products you’ll probably never use, to line the pockets of people you’ll never meet, just so you might be able to get enough money together to buy a load of crap you don’t need, or, if you’re lucky, have a holiday that takes you to a place, like where I live, for a week of the happiness I feel every day.”

Ouch. He has a point.

… that he did not need a washingtonpost.com subscription?

Learned to make one nasty cabin. Those heavy unprotected logs rot and kill you.