[AreaMan]

Maybe it's the decades of marriage, mortgage, raising teenagers and a dead end job, but stories like this make me wonder what life would be like if I could just wander and explore.

Except for the getting clubbed to death part...that's kind of a bummer.

[geologist]

lonely, meager, dangerous, boring, no one cares, no one misses you, no one prays for you, no one needs you,

and O did I say ... lonely, lonely, lonely?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Maybe it’s the decades of marriage, mortgage, raising teenagers and a dead end job, but stories like this make me wonder what life would be like if I could just wander and explore. ***

Read the book WITH A CAMERA IN OLD NAVAJO LAND by Earle R. Forrest ( University of Oklahoma press).

[shorty_harris]

Ever hear of Dick Proenneke? At age 50, he decided to leave the rat race, took off for Alaska, built himself a cabin, and lived alone in the wilderness for the next 30 years. He filmed a lot of his adventures, and they're now available on DVD. Pretty interesting.

Myself, I've always fancied living like Seldom Seen Slim, or maybe Shorty Harris.