We’ve learned a lot about living off grid in Alaska so far. Here are some lessons we’ve learned here that can be applied to life anywhere!
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Category: Wild Alaska
Up, Up, Down, Up
Seems like life out here is just a roller coaster of ups and downs each day.
Ronan got into the porcupine for the third time, so after the dogs treed it we shot it with our .22 and I butchered and cooked it for the dogs (porcupines have no season and no bag limit here). Ronan and Link were very happy to have it for dinner.
Progress!
I feel like we’ve actually accomplished something and made progress in the past few days.
After Kyle spoke with another gentleman with a cabin up in this area, we gave up on finding our markers for now. He had been coming up to his cabin for 10 years and never found his property markers!
So… we used the plat map, paced off the distance and decided if we went in right in the middle, there was no way we could accidentally be on someone else’s property. Which brings us to:
We have a driveway now! Continue reading “Progress!”
Reality Check
This sh*t is hard. We didn’t expect easy, but it is H-A-R-D.
Between there being no road to our property, and the survey markers being buried under 40 years of growth; we feel like we can’t even start working on our property yet! It’s been a huge reality check for sure.
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