Honey, I Finished The Internet

6 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

1. Dave Whipple is great. The Alaska and Michigan UP stuff particularly. I’m less enamored of his wife Brooke but she is okay.

   His brother also has a channel and Dave also has a channel called Cheap Wheels if you ever need DIY videos on fixing crap cars and pickups.

2. i have an offgrid place that ive owned for 40 years. I gave up about 35 years ago making it all the way thru winter. it could be done but would be very uncomfortable. i understand why soddies where the way of the original prairie accommodation . poplar as fuel is tough for anything over about 500 sq ft. i close at thanksgiving and open up again april 1 or so . also done entirely with cash. about 1600 sq ft now.

3. Sky News Australia roast Chrystia Freeland idiotic commencement speech in Boston.

   https://youtu.be/NrY_xln8Q5Y?si=L17qBmtv-4WTzyt4

4. Having built a log home myself, that was a pretty realistic video. We, too, lived in a camper trailer during the first two years of construction, until we moved into the basement. We pumped water up the hill from the creek to flush the toilet in the camper, and took “sun showers” out in the woods. For drinking and cooking, we bought bottled water in town. Lifting 200 lb. logs up to the top of the walls just about broke us, though. What these videos never talk about is, “What are you going to do when you get old?” You won’t be able to do heavy lifting any more and when you need medical attention, you’re going to be hours away from the nearest hospital.

5. “… You won’t be able to do heavy lifting anymore and when you need medical attention, you’re going to be hours away from the nearest hospital.”

   Everybody needs something to die from, especially if they get old. If you are “prepping,” it should on your list of things to prepare for.

6. I believe there are different types of what can be called off-grid. I have lived full time in a 26 year old 40 foot diesel motorhome for 10 years now. I was still working for the first 8 years and it was year-round on a wilderness property west of Calgary. The only hook-up I had was power. If you are going to live through an Alberta winter in an RV you must have power in my opinion. Since May of 2022 I have been off-grid 90% of the time. From mid May to mid September I set up camp in a wilderness valley in southeast B.C. with no cell signal or internet. I access the internet with a laptop while in town for supplies. A wildfire forced me out of B.C. a few weeks ago so I am in a cheap Alberta campground at the moment. From late October to about mid April I live off-grid on the desert in western Arizona. I stay on a friend’s acreage outside of Calgary for a month in the spring and a month in the fall. I spent thousands of dollars making my motorhome off-grid capable but I think it has been worth it. I am retired now (I’m 65) and my only income is my CPP, OAS, and a tiny 80 dollar pension from a long ago workplace. Although it costs money to move my motorhome (towing a pickup) to these locations I am still saving money in the big picture as I am not paying rent, utility bills or high winter heating costs. My monthly expenses usually total up to only about 1000-1200/month. If I quit drinking beer it would be much less, LOL. I do use my pickup to travel into nearby towns for supplies. This is working out well for me so far. I am single so to do this you must be ok with solitude for long periods. It also needs research, planning, and money invested in a capable RV.