In a sense I became spoiled in later working years. Fifteen steps and one flight down to eat. Three flights up to work eight hours. Three flights down to eat and work four hours over time which was confined to an area no more than 100' wide, 900 ' long and a total of 9 flights up or down maximum - with elevator. to all but the highest and lowest levels. A far cry from the infantry.

Now I live on a boat and if I stand in the center of the cabin I can cook , eat, work with not more than two steps fore and aft and one step port to starboard. Outside add three step to the stern and eight or nine to the bow. or two steps to a dock or dinghy. Yet when in a port the world comes to me via internet including parts deliveries. I really look forward to the daily long walks and carrying the ruck back with 10 to 30 kilos of whatever. i have one dink and one bicycle and two pairs of walking type athletic shoes and one pair of deck shoes and flappers or flip flops for the shower if I'm near one.

The extra walking shoes are the back up system. No jackets, no ties, no cold weather gear, five hawaiian or latin type button shirts five golf or tennis type three button shirts, six pair of shorts and two pair of jeans. Socks, jungle style boonie hats. work gloves....two sweatshirts. two of the shirts with the newer of the two athletic shoes complete the formal wear. about a two dozen t shirts. half are printed with something from somewhere or from the Gulch. Half are just plain white. Stealth T Shirts.

I left out one obvious item. Refer to Jimmy Buffet for the answer.

Three solar panels, one wind generator accounts for power the rest is the wind. in my sails mmmm one double blade paddle and swim fins...the rest is walking or if far enough local bus.

Life is SWEEEEET!

Tonight i'm having fresh caught fish and shrimp with fresh vegetables and a little rice. Choice of a dozen kinds of salsa followed by one each fiction and non-fiction by the bunk and two non-fiction on the table.

I keep on hand over three thousand books and one thousand selected movies or documentaries through the miracle of external hard drives.

Latest two came from an editors note in a book by long deceased C.M. Kornbluth referring to books written by his High School English teacher Of five volumes she wrote i snagged the last one available of two - compliments of Amazon - and am chasing any remaining of one in particular Golden Treasury by Mary J.J. Grimm should you chance across it. It discusses every type or style of poetry and gives examples of each.

What's on your menu?

Sincerely,

Living My Life For Me

PS all the stuff needed to 'survive' comes with the boat. most of the idea came from a former publication called Backwoods Home. SCUBA I forgot SCUBA and snorkeling. And two fishing poles.

That then this is now. I like the never drunk part.But why is this a boost only to the hospitality industry? So whose going pay for it? The liquor and drug industry?

Example people who work in the East Bay or San Francisco itself commute from towns close to Sacramento. Every day. Both ways. That's the closest they could find affordable housing.

A popular method was chipping in to buy a 15 pax van. One of the non working spouses drives both ways. While the other is at work they shop. Five days a week five different drivers for three weeks or some similar schedule. LA Same way. No one spreads out they just enlarge the sardine can.

Gives new meaning to 'huddled masses yearning to be squeezed.'