My BFF and I are moving off the grid. We are moving to in Southern CO. We have decided. It is a very difficult task to wrap my mind around. Now, however, it's not going to be a communal space - it's just going to be us living out there. It's desolate. But it's lovely. Much better than Denver. We will probably just continue to work on it every weekend until either the SHTF or we move out there, whenever that is.
This past weekend, I watched TABU and asked myself the question - WHAT IF?
What if one morning I woke up and the power grid had been shut down? I guess I just woke up a little bit more.
We are not sure "when" we will actually GO. We have power and water out there now. We have a mobile home stocked full of stuff- including tons of building materials. I guess I am just SICK of talking about the problem. He is definitely sick of talking about it. He is a DO-ER. God sent him to me, because I would not do this on my own. I don't know how. I don't know how to construct things. I know nothing about how to do anything but art. But things here in the city are so bad, I can't even make a living here. He can make a living online. He teaches online and can do that from anywhere.
Otherwise we will grow something. Maybe we will just grow what we need. I don't know. We are working on that solution.
The hardest thing for me about this is to take baby steps toward it and to not know how it's all going to go down or how much we will get done before-hand.
There are so many little things to think about - pots and pans? clothes? food... etc little things that I take for granted that I have - art supplies...and just trying to live here a day at a time without going completely insane. Plus - we have only been together for about 3 months - Who knows if this is the right thing? What about my dog? - I mean if we wait too long, and the thing just gets shut down, we would have to just walk away and leave our animals.
He has an old motorcycle that does not have a computer - we could just ride away on it - because IF the power grid got shut down, they say the cars would not run - I don't understand that. Anything with a computer would not work.
Do I sound cray-cray? Yes. I suppose I do. But I guess we have to plan for the worst and expect the best. And, maybe we can just ease out there. Maybe the power grid won't get shut down. Maybe we can just live on a farm with modern conveniences and come into the city to work?
I might do that - tattoo on the weekends?