Expensive Hobbies

[rainydaykidParticipant 42]

I’m about to spend a year living in the woods and hiking the Appalachian Trail. Don’t know many women that would go with me, lol. Digging a hole to use the bathroom, taking baths and washing clothes in the creek, it’s a pretty primitive lifestyle, but I find peace in the woods that I see nowhere else.

 

It took me 5 months to do the whole thing last time, but I’m flying to the halfway point, going all the way north, turning around and going all the way south, might spend the winter in Florida or Alabama doing odd jobs.

[James HunterParticipant 26]

oh yes, the time at camp that the guys liked most where I went was 6:30 AM to go “creeking”; “crickin'” for the boys from Kentucky and Tennessee.

[StargazerParticipant 12505]

I’m buying a teardrop trailer next month… a ruggedized “Little Guy” that I can tow with my jeep… and then taking it up to Zion, Yellowstone and eventually Devil’s Tower. I figure I can stay gone two or three weeks and just visit national parks, go kayaking, observe the stars and generally do nothing but be out in the peace and quiet.

I thought for a while about buying an Airstream and doing a year on the road but the cost is just too high and I want to be able to travel light and get out into the wilds.

[rainydaykidParticipant 42]

Yeah, I’m so used to living out of a backpack I could live in unimaginable luxury with a teardrop trailer. My pack weight is about 35lbs fully loaded, and that will take me comfortably down to about 5 degrees, with a week and a half of food and a liter of water.

 

I made all of my gear this time, sewed mitts, a midlayer, and other winter gear out of milsurp polypro pants and poncho liners, made a tarptent with mosquito netting, a sleeping quilt for 15 degree weather(modified from a sleeping bag), a scarf, thick hood, ect.

 

I sew with dental floss, and use short pieces of paracord that I sew through on some light fabrics so the stitching doesn’t rip out.

[MadmanParticipant 772]

I have always loved aquariums and fishies. I am big into planted tanks which can be expensive at first. I am in the process of setting up my 75 gallon tank, making it into a biotope habitat for South American fish. Two or three pairs of blue ram cichlids, a big school of rummy nose tetras, some dwarf plecos, maybe some cory catfish, some little shrimps.

I built the lights myself making a dual bulb fixture housing 55watt power compact lights. I got a pressurized CO2 system with a pH controller and just got my tank filled at the welding store. I am still waiting for my sweet canister filter that I ordered for myself for Christmas. Cant wait.

 

Heres one of my oldest fish, the first ram cichlid i ever raised from a fry. I fed him live black worms and blood worms and he turned out to be a boss.

 

nevermind, i cant figure out how to post a photo.

 

 

[MadmanParticipant 772]

@Docfenderson Have you seen the youtube channel called suspicious0bservers? They study the sun and have made a number of breakthru discoveries. They are only recently being acknowledged by NASA and professors.

[StargazerParticipant 12505]

Yeah, I’ve heard of them… I get skeptical whenever anyone talks about “zero point energy” though so I’m a little bit suspicious about what they’re suspicious about.

I believe some pretty weird s~~~, to be honest, but their whole shtick seems a bit tinfoil hat to me. Am I missing something, you think?

[MadmanParticipant 772]

They are willing to entertain any theory, unlike the scientific community at large. Yes they are interested in strange theories, but they dont believe them, until they have evidence.

[rainydaykidParticipant 42]

Evidence is the foundation of science. You make a hypothesis, and if the evidence doesn’t support it, you reject it.

[StargazerParticipant 12505]

I think we’re getting off topic here a bit but when I look at their materials, what I am seeing is the promotion of a set of ideas about correlations between solar activity, planetary alignment and geologic / atmospheric activity on Earth which appears to go beyond the level of simple belief.

They are presenting data that appears to correlate while implying causation without making predictions, at least so far as I have seen, that could be used to prove or disprove that causation over time. And the breathless talk about “zero point energy” as if it were a possible source of limitless power sounds a lot closer to something you’d hear from a new age cult leader than a self respecting scientist, even someone on the fringes of accepted thought.

[MENGINEERParticipant 583]

Muscle cars. Vinyl. Traveling to other countries once or twice a year.

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