Love this. One of the reasons I enjoy hiking is the ability to disconnect. Often is there is no internet even if you wanted to connect. Instead hiking is a time to connect with yourself or those you’re hiking with!
A thought I have shared time and time again. Especially with my young son, and the trips we take into the woods, the shores or any other bit of outdoors. How much better life could be if that was the norm rather than the exception. The benefit? While it might not have been my norm, I can work to make it his. And get closer to living off in the woods. Who knows, maybe we'll be neighbors!
Yes, I love this! Let’s be neighbors! We have to redefine the norms. We’re just not meant to live like this, constantly online and bombarded. We’ve lost our connection to our surroundings and our community. I think it’s awesome that you’re giving your son such an incredible foundation of getting outside.
Love to hear it! I feel like there are more of us than we realize who feel this way. I think we're all just so exhausted with the disconnect and lack of presence these days.
If often think of [deleted] Ranch in the Idaho Wilderness. I'd seen it on maps, and passed through there on a Bighorn Sheep hunt. All what was left was some foundation elements, perhaps some primitive irrigation apparatus. The Ranch is written about in one or two books on the history of Idaho ... the [deleted]s raised a family there ... far from roads, far from telephone lines, far from everything, except WILDERNESS. Oh to have lived there. Oh TO live there!
We recently put in an offer on a beautiful house, on 10 acres. Perfect. And waited for the seller response. Yesterday we woke up in a panic. The house was too perfect. Everything done, ready, for humans, cows, ... everything. To the point we'd be afraid to touch it, let alone make it our own. We pulled our offer. We need something to work on, make our own ... not just sit around and stare at one another growing old. Some day maybe even a house, off grid, at the end of the road.
Love this. One of the reasons I enjoy hiking is the ability to disconnect. Often is there is no internet even if you wanted to connect. Instead hiking is a time to connect with yourself or those you’re hiking with!
Totally. It forces us to exist in a different time, and I honestly love that.
A thought I have shared time and time again. Especially with my young son, and the trips we take into the woods, the shores or any other bit of outdoors. How much better life could be if that was the norm rather than the exception. The benefit? While it might not have been my norm, I can work to make it his. And get closer to living off in the woods. Who knows, maybe we'll be neighbors!
Yes, I love this! Let’s be neighbors! We have to redefine the norms. We’re just not meant to live like this, constantly online and bombarded. We’ve lost our connection to our surroundings and our community. I think it’s awesome that you’re giving your son such an incredible foundation of getting outside.
Well said and spot on! 😊
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I hear this call as well...
Love to hear it! I feel like there are more of us than we realize who feel this way. I think we're all just so exhausted with the disconnect and lack of presence these days.
If often think of [deleted] Ranch in the Idaho Wilderness. I'd seen it on maps, and passed through there on a Bighorn Sheep hunt. All what was left was some foundation elements, perhaps some primitive irrigation apparatus. The Ranch is written about in one or two books on the history of Idaho ... the [deleted]s raised a family there ... far from roads, far from telephone lines, far from everything, except WILDERNESS. Oh to have lived there. Oh TO live there!
Ahh sounds like a total dream!! I can only imagine what an adventure it must have been!
Sometimes isn’t enough for me.
Honestly, same.
We recently put in an offer on a beautiful house, on 10 acres. Perfect. And waited for the seller response. Yesterday we woke up in a panic. The house was too perfect. Everything done, ready, for humans, cows, ... everything. To the point we'd be afraid to touch it, let alone make it our own. We pulled our offer. We need something to work on, make our own ... not just sit around and stare at one another growing old. Some day maybe even a house, off grid, at the end of the road.
Love that you want to embrace imperfection and the opportunity to build something with your own hands. It’s a long lost art, truly.