Very interesting. You really did “live off the land,” as the phrase goes.
I cannot think of many people who could have done what you did. I don’t believe I could done it. The extent of my “woods experience” is that I once built a 12x12’ log cabin, using pines on my property (it wasn’t easy lugging those trees around but I did it). But I lack the other skills you demonstrated.
I have to assume that you had a small wood stove in your dwelling. Is that right?
How did you handle the watering of your garden? We cannot depend on Mother Nature to be consistent with rain, you know. I am thinking that you had earlier referenced a creek nearby, but man, that must have been what we call “work” to lug water to the garden.
I just remain fascinated by someone who could renounce the comforts of modern civilization and live on his own, especially for two years.
And I didn't do without all creature comforts. I had some electricty from the solar panels/batteries for things like lights at night, and to run the laptop and high-speed wireless link down to the big house in the valley a half mile away. I can do without indoor plumbing, but I'm not going without my internet. ;)
/johnny