JohnC Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 Very interesting story of NY transplant living in the Texas desert http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/garde ... as.html?hp
Ben H Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 Thats the dude I want around when the zombies come!
kurt Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 yeah, I read that this afternoon. Interesting operation. But man, West Texas desert is a little too off grid for me. Cool story though.
John Kogel Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 My wife and I did without power a few times, moving onto raw land we bought, then building. After a while, you get real sick of splitting wood and hauling water. It takes up a lot of time. We don't even have a wood heater in this house and nope, we don't want one, either.
Scottpat Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 My daughter, her husband and their children (my grandchildren) live off the grid in Honduras! They are missionaries on what is called the Mosquito Coast. They have a generator that they run about 6 hours a night for electricity. They have an LPG refrigerator and pump water from a well. Put it this way, they are so far off the grid that they can't even get mail service within 100 miles of them! We call them the Swiss Family McGehees! The funny thing is that they have a cell phone and cell service in the village they are in. No power in the village but they have cell service!
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