Nick– If you ever have 5 hours to kill FTPing a 4 minute video clip to the Asian continent, I highly recommend watching Alone in the Wilderness, the story of another man building another cabin in the middle of another wilderness. Chris McCandless, the dude from My Side of the Mountain, Dick Proenekke.
For 30 years Dicky P. called the Alaskan wilds home, with no company besides an 8mm camera and his carpentry skills. With lines like, “I don’t want these logs looking like a boy scout was let loose on them with a dull hatchet,” it’s chicken soup for the tune-in-and- drop-out soul.
Nick, have you read Proenneke’s book? Fifty years or so after it was published, it’s still a best-seller on the publisher’s list. I can send Ben down with a copy when he heads south–or do you ever have time to read? Hope all’s going well…
Reading? what’s reading? I don’t touch things without a keyboard these days. I’d love to check it out, so please send it down with Ben in place of whatever foul sea trash he has in store for me.
I saw this on PBS one time. so sick.