Day One

On this New Years day, Sokchea and I have made a resolution to blog about our journey towards understanding life, love, and awareness.  In other words, we're trying to give meaning to our desire to go "off-the-grid."  We want to take a step back and we want to record our experience.  But we're not sure what we're taking a step back from or why we're doing it.  This blog is our attempt to figure it out.

We don't have anything to teach anyone and we're definitely not trying to preach.  So if we ever get to close too either, please tell us to stop or at least feel free to roll your eyes.  

We've purchased an acre of land with a small river and have just made the largest purchase of our lives on an $11,000 Yurt.  However, before we can move in we have to clear the land, build a bridge over the river, build a platform for the yurt to sit on, construct the yurt, build a composting toilet, build a water catchment system, figure out the most effective source of electricity, and plant our food sources.  Then we have to sustain ourselves and the land.  Which we will record.  In detail.

I imagine that there will be a lot more failures than successes to report.  But that's the point of it.  Hopefully by writing in this format we won't feel the need to gloss over or polish any of our experiences.  Hopefully we can sit down at the computer while we're still covered in dirt (or humanure, depending on the task).  While the frustration or elation is still fresh.  And hopefully through this, we will be one step closer to understanding life.

Luke