Outstanding post, and you really brought with the Toyota car carrier story. I have had similar youthful near-death experiences, you never forget them and they become building blocks for your life.
One "prepper avenue" that is rarely mentioned is living on a boat. Sure, it's not for everybody, but in an era of unaffordable housing it's a v…
Outstanding post, and you really brought with the Toyota car carrier story. I have had similar youthful near-death experiences, you never forget them and they become building blocks for your life.
One "prepper avenue" that is rarely mentioned is living on a boat. Sure, it's not for everybody, but in an era of unaffordable housing it's a viable option for those who are sufficiently fit and agile. The average home down payment is now $30K, for this you can buy an older but perfectly sound 30 foot sailboat that can cross oceans. Even a small older houseboat can move by water from Maryland to Texas and hide out in a million acres of coastal wilderness.
The flexibility of a moveable house is a significant advantage over being tied to one permanent "bug-in" location. When every highway is in permanent gridlock, boats will still give a prepper a lot of options. Diesel fuel lasts for years compared to gasoline. A 500 mile (plus or minus) motoring range plus virtually limitless sailing range puts small sailboats in a unique category. I wrote this up a decade or so under the title "Get Yourself a Thirty Footer and Go." Here's one link, or search around for others.
Thanks Matt. Are you Matt Bracken, the author of the Enemies trilogy? I didn't know you were on Substack. Great advice on the sailboat option, one of the most underrated it seems. I wrote about it briefly last summer after a two year search for a new home, which sadly is still ongoing and coming to an end finally this spring.
All the advantages of being global and mobile mitigate the many risks of being tied to one government and its changing laws, and its fickle people. Seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water. There’s almost no place that can’t be traveled via the high seas. With the cost of automatic water makers coming down significantly, nature's energy in wind and solar the possibilities are endless. I've spent hours on Yacht World looking at 35-38 foot sloops. My only problem is a big one. I'd have to start with "Sailing For Dummies."
Imagine trying to explain riding a bike to an adult who had never seen one or heard of them. It would sound daunting. It's not. Take lessons on dinghies, it's the same principle from small to large.
A great weekly resource for me as well. And with the best memes. Concerned American was around here briefly last year in the comments. I'll give the cruising life a closer look again. Had been zeroing in on Finland after recent elections there. Very low cost of real estate, lakeside with hectares, reasonable gun culture for Europe,100k fresh water lakes, gov that supports hunting, fishing, farming, and fixed foreigner tax rate much lower than the crazy local 51%. Not without plenty of cons; most cashless society, most trusting in their gov; digitized everything; hellish winters; recent NATO membership achieved by their former PM WEF disco bunny etc.
Outstanding post, and you really brought with the Toyota car carrier story. I have had similar youthful near-death experiences, you never forget them and they become building blocks for your life.
One "prepper avenue" that is rarely mentioned is living on a boat. Sure, it's not for everybody, but in an era of unaffordable housing it's a viable option for those who are sufficiently fit and agile. The average home down payment is now $30K, for this you can buy an older but perfectly sound 30 foot sailboat that can cross oceans. Even a small older houseboat can move by water from Maryland to Texas and hide out in a million acres of coastal wilderness.
The flexibility of a moveable house is a significant advantage over being tied to one permanent "bug-in" location. When every highway is in permanent gridlock, boats will still give a prepper a lot of options. Diesel fuel lasts for years compared to gasoline. A 500 mile (plus or minus) motoring range plus virtually limitless sailing range puts small sailboats in a unique category. I wrote this up a decade or so under the title "Get Yourself a Thirty Footer and Go." Here's one link, or search around for others.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3095240/posts
Thanks Matt. Are you Matt Bracken, the author of the Enemies trilogy? I didn't know you were on Substack. Great advice on the sailboat option, one of the most underrated it seems. I wrote about it briefly last summer after a two year search for a new home, which sadly is still ongoing and coming to an end finally this spring.
https://thegoodcitizen.live/p/where-in-the-world
All the advantages of being global and mobile mitigate the many risks of being tied to one government and its changing laws, and its fickle people. Seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water. There’s almost no place that can’t be traveled via the high seas. With the cost of automatic water makers coming down significantly, nature's energy in wind and solar the possibilities are endless. I've spent hours on Yacht World looking at 35-38 foot sloops. My only problem is a big one. I'd have to start with "Sailing For Dummies."
Yes, it's me. I saw the link on WesternRifleShooters.us , one of my daily must-read sites.
Imagine trying to explain riding a bike to an adult who had never seen one or heard of them. It would sound daunting. It's not. Take lessons on dinghies, it's the same principle from small to large.
A great weekly resource for me as well. And with the best memes. Concerned American was around here briefly last year in the comments. I'll give the cruising life a closer look again. Had been zeroing in on Finland after recent elections there. Very low cost of real estate, lakeside with hectares, reasonable gun culture for Europe,100k fresh water lakes, gov that supports hunting, fishing, farming, and fixed foreigner tax rate much lower than the crazy local 51%. Not without plenty of cons; most cashless society, most trusting in their gov; digitized everything; hellish winters; recent NATO membership achieved by their former PM WEF disco bunny etc.
This fella is in Finland … his attitude to life fits in well with the theme of your article
https://youtube.com/@nigelwatson2750?si=Q4-h725lnZ0eOpKY
“ Castigates Cay “ should be compulsory reading
"The flexibility of a moveable house" native Indians from North America used to have those!