Going AWOL...

[Jameshow]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwr7yxmep8r3o

Anyone else feel like going AWOL sometimes...
I feel like it completely off-grid nomadic life ATM.
I guess an ethical alternative to suicide.

 

[Big John]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwr7yxmep8r3o

Anyone else feel like going AWOL sometimes...
I feel like it completely off-grid nomadic life ATM.
I guess an ethical alternative to suicide.

I'd be no good at going AWOL. I've got a dodgy knee and I'm a hopeless at cooking if I had to go off grid. I'd be good at wearing the same clothes for weeks on end though. My map reading skills are barely adequate so it wouldn't be long before I'd be seriously lost. I'll stick to riding my bike three times a week and coming back to bricks and mortar.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Anyone else feel like going AWOL sometimes...

Often, but only from my work
Otherwise I'm a well adjusted person.

 

[Oldhippy]

I can highly recommend boat life. Off grid, no people, noise, cars. It is a learning curve but the pay off is worth it.

 

[AndyRM]

He wasn't exactly AWOL. See the thread further down the page on him...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Off grid

Is this your carrier pigeon using the grid to post messages?

 

[Oldhippy]

Off grid as in producing own power etc. I am working on food growing as a long term project.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Anyone else feel like going AWOL sometimes...

I set off around the world a little over 26 years ago. Unlike Karl, I was more than happy to use public transport such as buses and trains and ferries to move on. Visited all seven continents. Only rule I had was not to fly, once I had landed on a continent. I only flew between continents. I would pop into an Internet cafe about once every six weeks to pick up any emails, and check bank balances.

My trip took me 19 months, not 28 years.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I did think about selling everything and buying a canal boat at one point

then just wandering around with no base - either geographically or socially

but I reckon I need contact with people otherwise I can become weird (or - as some say - more weird)
not in a bad sense - but not good for me

then family appeared thanks to SWMBO and grand kids and all that