Living off Grid in the High Desert, Taos, New Mexico
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Jeanne eKo GyPsy is a traveler, and after a lifetime on the road, she decides to lay roots. But not so much in a traditional way.
Jeanne bought a cheap block of land in the high desert sage bush country of Two Peaks, just out of Taos, New Mexico. All houses in this area are off the grid, meaning people rely on alternative energy sources such as solar and wind.
The desert dwellers of Two Peaks are known as Sage Monkeys by the townsfolk. Some wear it with pride, some see it as derogatory.
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I love southern Colorado/northern New mexico..it is literally one of the most untouched legit places in the United states... when it comes to mountains and beauty and high desert this is the stuff
The desert of New Mexico is beautiful.
Paradise on Earth.
Yeah it looks great.
real eyes realize real shite nah, it's Sedona Az or Marfa Tx.
Don't let its beauty deceive you. The Eagles song Hotel California and House of the Rising Sun may as well be represented by this hell hole of a state.... If you don't end up getting killed by violent gangs or individual violent criminals, or the ease of ending up addicted to drugs and possibly ODing from how prevalent they are, then the heat of the desert may just as well do it to ya. And that's even if you somehow miraculously have enough income to be able to live anywhere here... So basically if you're disabled with bare minimum income per month (about $1000) and end up being forced to have to find someplace to live in a short amount of time or face legal trouble, you're pretty much fucked outta luck.... Moving within the state once you've already been living here is the most expensive and miserable situation to have to experience.... You could rhetorically build a pretty decent sized city and fill it with all the homeless people in this state, and that city would probably become juat as heavily populated, if not more, than even Albuquerque. And suicides are one of the leading causes of death in the state... Not hard to understand why..... I guess poetically, you could say that we have indeed become captivated by the Land of Entrapment.....
Not this high desert its nothing but dwarf sage.
She's a smart lady, I can tell. I hope she gets it finished and comfortable. She's never lived anywhere more than 5mo. Wow. Ramblin' bone. I relate, I'm that way. I'd rather live there than in the city. I don't expect most of you to understand... although I could find a prettier remote place, for even that is too crowded for me.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
I was talking with my son about this topic this morning. Crazy people can't make it long term in these types of harsh areas because they do crazy stuff and die.
Wrong .Most people living at Carson estates are insane people who cant make it anywhere else but being around those like themselves.There are many great places that are cheap and remote with no one caring what you do as long as its not some crazy crap.
@@deltabluesdavidrayeyou beat me to it
I've gotten a camp shower idea. Using a water bottle. Put holes on the cap. Squeeze the water on all body parts.
Fantastic video, so amazingly interesting. I am always interested in people that have the courage to live an alternative lifestyle. We are all of us so indoctrinated to conform to living in towns and cities and in the system.
blah blah blah blah
Is this person still here? I am.
Looks very interesting. I lived “ off grid “ for 30 yrs. on my sailboat. Had to be very self sufficient. Similar out there. I have a friend that lives out there. Will visit next summer. Looks like incredible sky’s out there too love to stargaze. Thanks for the introduction video.
So.....go out to a naturally beautiful peaceful place and make it look like Sanford and Sons junk yard? Who wants to look at that?
Some people just don't give a shit about "minor details" like that.
Fuck you, freedom is better than being a slave to the elite.
Ain't no one out there to see it fr fr 😂😂😂😂😂😂
What price freedom? Looks are secondary to function when starting out and looks can be upgraded over time.
Why have a beautiful place if you’re not allowed to experience it, there’s a whole rest of the state that’s also beautiful
I wonder how Jeanne is doing now? It would be interesting to see how her place has changed.
so where exactly is this???
@@josephdupont Looks like it is south of Taos, New Mexico.
It's northwest of Taos, across the gorge bridge. It's above the Rio Grande to the west.
Wish I lived in the US - I would live in that area for sure! How is Jeanne doing and what does her place look now?
Where do you live?
do u want to ?? it's quite cold thru winter ,
Perhaps another unfinished project and she moved on
Damn I lived here as a little kid now looking back at it is crazy
Hey! What was it like?
@@jeffreyleskosky563 definitely not good, look how desolate it is... doubt you could grow food unless you bring in wood chips & greenhouses, and that would just make you a target for people who don’t have food
This place is Slab City #2
Claudia Rossa : I was thinking the same thing!!!
What's up cutie? When you coming NYC? Mr.caribbean
KingParisBuckingham u dumb asl
Thank you for making and sharing this.
ski boots on fence post at 2:02
Taos, New Mexico is also known for a world class ski resort up in the mountains
One day I will share a complete tour of my off the grid living on youtube! I got a really nice setup going on, a preppers and off griders dream! I will share my experiences and how I overcame the challenges which people can learn from!
are you in a arid area???
@@josephdupont no, I live in the high desert but loaded with underground springs. I have 4 springs that feed my year around creek and the creek pushes 1,100 gallons a minute. I also have 3 huge reservoirs with in a quarter mile of me and my land has a underground spring, I have 40 acres and it doesn't matter where I dig on my land I hit water between 3 and 4 feet, last winter I had water to the top of my well.
@@richardbellsr2345 must be very very nice. I assume you use the water for evaporative cooling?
@@josephdupont not sure what you mean with evaporating cooling mate. I do use a swamp cooler lol; however our climate here isn't to bad, winters get cold, I've been as low as 20 below ferinhieght for a couple of days one winter but average temperatures in the winter are usually in the teens. Summers are great, we get a couple of weeks that are hot but average temperatures in the summer are 80's; however we always get a breeze in the afternoon and it really helps to cool things off. There is also a 30 to 40 degree temperature change between night and day here so if it's 90 in the day we drop to 50 and 60 at night. I'm at 4,500 feet elevation. I would be interested in hearing about evaporation cooling.
Where are these videos eh.
This is neat, but it reminded me of a horror movie I saw where the place had been hit by an atomic bomb.
Nature reclaims it all .
She gets it! Less is MORE. Her detachment from the world, has made her RICH, in many ways. Letting go.... Being Present, with only what you need. Wow...!!!'
+Satya Paz Are you another underachiever pushing lifestyles you only dream of?
+OFF GRID with DOUG and STACY Hey D&S, nice to see you comment on here! : )
You are correct . The night here will be wonderful
I really understand what your saying. Taoist philosophy; Simplicity = minimal stress and worries. Simplicity= great efficiency. There's a lot of power in letting go.. Letting go is a skill. Letting go of that which does not serve you is empowering.
You see that more and more people are sick and tired of fighting with electrical companies and all that and they just want to get off grid and I respect that I think that's a great idea simplify your life
You need a gun and a rifle to protect yourself from crazy people, i had a friend he almost got killed he lived like that and didn't believe in guns after that happened. He got one, you don't have to kill anyone just show them and criminals run, just because you're a peaceful person doesn't mean everyone else is criminals look for easy target.
I seriously think your advice is a requirement.
Dogs are great too just fix em
Ok. I wonder if she's 'still there'. it's now Late Aug 2018. Yeah...some 'freedom' out there...but...clearly, at a cost. place looks desperate. and that can be a scary proposition. hmmm?.....like i said, wonder 'who is still there'...some years later. because some of these people 'thought'...it was a great idea...then, at a point later, realize it was a mistake. just sayin'...
Lived on a sailboat for years When I left the states I final got down to using 3 gallons a day. No water used for my toilet because that used ocean water. I was paying $.10 a gal.. People waste a lot of water. Lived for years at a dock before I left and I thought 10 gal. a day was doing goo. Ha! Had no clue how you can cut back when you have to haul your water in 5 gal jugs. Uugh!
Something like Slab City in California. Great doc. :)
"The hills have eyes" was that the film?
slab city is transient land that no one owns. you buy and own your land on the mesa. big difference.
@@nonyabizness.original ... thank you for your opinion! ✌️😎
I would be very nervous even going to town and leaving anything of value behind in a place like that. Unless you have close neighbors who look out for each other. Not sure how one would fill ones time out there? Not garden friendly. Odd place to build a permanent residence. I was just passing through Taos a week ago coming back from Colorado, the well developed places on Highway 64 with the crazy Earthship Designs looked cool, and safe.
All these people will starve like the rest of people in the cities, unless they have a lot of crops growing (here’s a hint permaculture) and those earthship communities are full of hippies, doubt they even have a 3 rifles there, not worth it,
The only thing these types of people value are their soul.❤
Now, THAT's what i'm talkin' about...
Jeanne your idea of putting in a windmill to harness wind-power is excellent. Good luck with that, feel to contact me if you want or need help installing it.
Awesome video of the Mesa!
I have about 30 of these tax delinquent auction properties in various counties in New Mexico some I got for a $100 each This must be pretty unique that you can build any type structure that you want mine have CC and R's zoning and planning building permits.
How cold are the winters and do u stay warm ?
Great vid!
looks like life in afganastan
Interesting...
No mention of the temperatures in Winter. It gets really cold. Just curious.
Taos is a great place to snow ski. I'm in Edgewood,NM and it will get down to 25 below, but the winters are very nice and dry the snow is powdery.
Wow. You mean 25 below in Taos, right? Cause I didn't think it got that cold in Edgewood. I don't ski but I've heard powder is the best. I'm downtown Albuquerque and love that mostly snow is melted off the streets by noon or so. Course a few miles to the east it can stick and stay icy for longer. New Mexico is one cool place, IMO. :)
Yes, The year before I move here it got down to 45 below, but that was a record. last winter It got down to 12 below with 2-1/2foot snow. Another thing to think about is transportation, you will need a good 4x4 vehicle and you may still get stuck sometimes, I live about 1.2 miles down a very well maintained county road and when it rains or snows heavy you may not get out for a couple of day's without 4 wheel drive.
Smarthealth Naturopathics Part of the reason I'm glad to be downtown. But I miss the country. Just noticed your name. I'm into alternatives as well. Good for you.
@@smarthealthnaturopathics9683 how do you take a shower in edgewood in the winter,,,,,with the water being frozen in the winter
Is there any more land me wife and four-year-old are heading that way we got a motorhome looking to get away from City
Been there.The worst place in New Mexico.There are many places in central western New Mexico available that are actually decently hospitable, beautiful,remote and have a better climate.Also living there you aren't a part of a outside insane asylum.
i just bought some land near here and will try to build a cal-earth dome
Dig a shower under ground mud the walls with grey river clay and use gravity for your shower .Recycle the water into your garden doung the same gravity feed.
You'll be fine with your own shower.
Be creative as you go.
Where outside taos is this
How do I buy a half acre there ?
Goats can live anywhere its a good idea to have as many as you can they eat anything and you can eat them
Chris Shawn Why not all three? Grow food, eat goat meat/milk and also evolve. best of both worlds! =) Thank goodness we are omnivores.
I never killed a goat. I wonder if there's specific way to do that. What if I put a plastic bag over it's head and kill it that way. But in all seriousness I can't kill an animal. I'd start crying and feeling vary vary guilty about it. It would take months for me to get the mental, emotional and spiritual shock out of my system. I understand that goats are ideal animals for many reasons. There has to be something else to replace the meat and kill thing. Maybe I could have someone do that stuff for me, I don't know. I think I have to go into deliberation about this. I'm sure that someone reading this is laughing at me right now, and thinks I'm a dummy... It's not my fault!!! I'm not a know it all and I never did off the grid stuff. I shouldn't of responded to this but it's too late I already opened my big dumb mouth. I think I'm to self conscious. 3 goats. Well, I think according to logic, one goat should be male and the other female so they can have babies thus I'd have more milk and meat. Do you just drink the milk or does it have to be boiled or something first? I just got an insight. I think I could purchase the most powerful shotgun take shooting lessons and use it to blow the goats brains out. The death would be instant. Yes? I think that's a good first step forward. The other things I'd have to figure out is how to cut the thing up and what are edible parts and what parts of the goat are not good for consumption.
There's so much to learn about all this.
Hi I was curious, are you still living there. This was made 3 years ago and you sed you only stay months max. Did you finish building the house ? Best to you !
Are u trying to build that big house? Whyy?
It is a awesome place. The air is rare. I want to go there.
Where exactly is this located at in Taos? or Zip Code? Thank you
I own a couple of dozen 1/4 and 1/2 acre lots in Tres Piedras Estates and Rancho de Taos Estates between Taos and Tres Piedras.
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With all the junk I see everywhere, this is not following the 12 step program of Clutterers Anonymous.
How far away is the nearest law?
It may sounds grazy but can i move in?
Did anybody ever do a follow-up video to see if she's still thier r ever finished her house
Does it remind you of home Gustavo?
oooh the mesa...dreads n drugs! and she one of those Richie's.... who come in and build and drive the indigenous pop out.
She definitely has courage being a single women up there in no- mans land. There's other place's with less out laws that I would pick before there.
What the hell were you trying to say? You make no sense. Your sentences and words are choppy. I'm not the best at grammar but .... dam!!!
Micki Moritz Looks like over population to me.
You're nuts.
Loretta Baca
Lol what do you call the native and chiconos meth head, crack heads and smack heads that beat and murder thier ladies? How about Damian Herrera who murdered my friend Max then his own brother and mother last June? Get the fuck outta here your your selfrighteous pedastal bullshit.
Here in the Bay Area there are some people that could learn something from these hardy folks.I see them all the time hanging out at Starbucks glued to their phones..Anytime we have a power outage they go nuts.
LOL 😂
Sounds like poverty
Fantasy or Reality??? I think that before you "fall in love" with a place like this, you need to separate fantasy from reality. Otherwise, you'll find out very soon that you have made a BIG mistake.
The land is easy to fall in love with but being able to live comfortably in a place like Taos especially, off grid , has got to be a challenge.
So how do I buy land to build something
Read SHEEPLE REPELLENT: A Manual by The Honorable Softspoken Shaman for the ins & outs and what the realtors don't tell you
Is this Colfax county?
Where is this please
How cold does it get in Taos In the Winter time? How hot in the summer?
Medmann48, the summers are usually a dry heat, in the 80's and 90's depending on your elevation. The cold winters are the brutal part, when temperatures can easily plummet below zero with serious windchill to lower that even further.
i want in
I don't know
Hello. I have been thinking of buying property in Toas county. I am from Ohio and unfamiliar with the state. How is the county with permits and zoning? I am interested in setting up a Yurt. Is this legal? Will I have to deal with the county pushing me off my property?
***** Oh, wow... So... Not a safe place to bring my wife? :(
***** Well damn. We have a Jeep but we intended setting up a Yurt. Will a pack of dogs and a lot of guns/ammunition scare people off? Or is it that BAD?
***** OK! Thanks Sleestak44! You have been a great help! More help than anyone has given on this subject matter!!
***** Hey thanks again! After watching a documentary on it I don't think my wife is digging it at all haha. Too bad. Not sure where else I can legally set up a Yurt in the US of A :(
There are many places in west Texas with no building codes and cheap land and much warmer check out "Terlingua"
Greetings from the Mesa. Don't fear The Beast.
What music is playing? Thank you
Underwater Scubadriver ?
what part of taos is this? I dont see it on the map anywhere
I think this is about 5 miles west of the Gorge Bridge
I wish i could live like that but i need to take a shower every day (im saying that to insult or put anyone down) somepople can go a few days whiteout but i can't function if i don't everyday and i will need money the last part it harder for me i don't know how people can live whit out working, maybe they are collecting a pention.
I assume many of them work in Tao's. The water out there is fine, you just have to have the money to drill a well, or do it your self .
no, they don't have a job, most of them get crazy money from gummint.
What is gumment?
What is gumment?
Go talk to Mike Reynolds your neighbor and build a small earth ship.
earth ships...spppleeeeeeeeettttccchhhh! yea, go ahead and build and earth ship...hhehehehehe
If i was in the us i would done the same
Des bidon ville au milieu du désert ....
We are heading out West again for 6 months a Vanabode road trip ($20 a day for food gas and lodging) and investigating where we might purchase and set up an offgrid base camp. Any ideas or specials please email me or if you are selling some put it up for sale for free on the Vanabode forum under Classifieds.
Not true sir. Here are the pictures and overview of 17 week 10,524 mile trip through mainly the West - www.vanabode.com/travel/west-vanabode-road-trip.htm
If you are really interested in the day by day and minute details of the budget get a copy of Vanabode, or a copy of "Big City Wild Country East Coast Road Trip on $20 a Day" from Amazon for 99 cents" they both break it down mile by mile and meal by meal.
I forgot this page is up and has the info you seek as well - www.vanabode.com/camp/van-travel-camping-budget.htm
I don't lie. I have no idea what your agenda is but we have been traveling like this for over 700,000 miles over the course of 21 years. Look at the pictures. As for the $20 a day - how else can I say it? YES YOU can travel BY YOURSELF for $20 day but OBVIOUSLY just like renting a house you can do MORE if there are two of you or three or more. If you are solo you drive less, eat less, but spend about the same on lodging (usually nothing). When TWO people travel the gas stays the same but now we may pay for a camping spot once a week rather than once a month and obviously eat double so that is why it is always figured as PER PERSON.
Dusty and little water. Ugh!
sooooo sustainable
they should be getting masses or carbon credits
3rd world...its the world whats 1st 2nd or 3rd I'm at the bottom of New mexico
Sounds good if a person can still drive and can wk good. Who is helping you build the house? You don't have Electricity? Also you a community well, and what about Sanitation,,? Do you have a septic tank? thanks
i bring my generator
Only prob is when ya get old and need a hospital.
Not everyone needs a hospital. My mom is 88 and has never needed one in her life. Quite sure I won't either. When it's time to go I'd rather lie down in a forest than any hospital bed.
Study the past land owners in this area, see where they are at??? See if they are still among the living. ?? Be careful of these types of areas, cheap land sale anywhere in New Mexico, human trafficking and human organs trafficking, done by one Kevin idler family of the Rio grande estates area of Bernardo New Mexico and reserve New Mexico and one krickett Branden family of Alto New Mexico!!! They have become billionaires marketing human body parts and human sex trafficking. Etc.
otherwise known as giving up
Wes Frazier It's being free and debt free. No where else in USA is legal.
Pretty and dangerous.
I'm looking to move off grid in Az. I just got back from a road trip to check out property in Golden Valley and it was a major let down as the sky has a thick haze. I assume pollution from generators and the gas power plant down there so thats out. I need a property now so if anyone has any info please share asap. 3000' elevation would be PERFECT but 5k may be the thing. I have a dozen fruit trees I started in buckets ready to go in the ground.
Man it would depend on the property cost, expenditures on building your structure, water haul trailer and fill up costs, solar panels and batteries plus charge controller and ac inverter or all dc appliances , fridge, ac/heat, food. I'm doing it on less so I suppose it comes down to determination.
3000 feet sounds like Tucson,AZ nice temps ,good growing but, you may want to look more east of Tucson for better price's Deming, NM or even better west Texas "Terlingua" I've heard of 20 acres for around 5-6 K and not much in the way of red tape for building.
Smarthealth Naturopathics I just bought some acres south and east of Tucson. Beautiful area, cooler. Now I'm looking for a big truck I can build into an rv so I have somewhere to live while building. I was seriously looking at Texas but found this first, praise God!
Sounds good is it off grid ? That area is getting cleaned up, you probably won't see any elegals running across your property at night. The weather there is great always warm and dry .
My parcel is near Pearce by the Dragoon mountains really beautiful but I have also thought of selling and heading back to Alaska. Nearby 4 acre lots are going for $35k so I could sell lower and help someone else out in the process which would be awesome. There are orchards and a vineyard down there and this lot is near some stores for resupply so I don't know what I'm going to do at this moment. It's a peach!
Can someone point me to what area this is in Taos county? a google maps link would be greatly appreciated - thanks
I don't have the map but I believe it's about 30 miles west of Tao's between Tao's and Chama. I've been to Chama and it's absolutely beautiful!
dude, just go to taos and follow the freaks in the afternoon, they'll take you right to it.
Rory Smith west rim rd. area
Yeah, no, it's not. From the Town of Taos, Paseo del Pueblo Sur (the main road), continue north for several miles, past the Taos PO and the El Prado PO and make a left at the blinking light onto Highway 64 West. Continue the 7 miles to the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, continue over bridge and for less than a mile. Make a left near the big water tank (the well) at the sign on your left that says West Rim Road. Backtracking: continue at 45 mph after you get off the bridge so you don't miss the turn. If you've turned in the correct place, you'll be going over a cattle guard on the road. Bear right onto the dirt road. The road is known unofficially as Sheepherder Road if you're using the weather app from I forget which TV station in ABQ. Ugh--the other name, Spanish, of course, begins with an "M," escapes me at the moment. Good luck going 4 miles even in a fancy vehicle. And that is MAYBE as far as any type of deliveryperson--never FedEx or UPS or water or mail but maybe Ace or Rio Grande Propane--will go. Nothing else. If you don't have a p.u. truck or a trailer, forget paying the initial well fee of several hundred dollars. Might as well load up your SUV and go into town, past Smith's, etc., and get your 25 cents/gallon decent water (no fluoride in the muni water in Taos; one good thing). And which town you "kind of live on on the mesa" depends on your unit, block, and lot. Getting my driver's license renewed was a total bitch. Had to call lawyers I worked with at the NM Legis Council Service for advice. But the turn on West Rim Road is the Two Peaks entrance, unofficially. You have to buy the land at a county auction, held in August. Not sure they've had one since 2014 or 2015. I so loathe it here. Went broke taking care of my late, great brother w/Down syndrome. I DO work, but as a freelance editor (since we live in the land of subliteracy), and twice I had to go to two different statehouses and test (AND BEAT OUT EVERYONE) for a job as a session (temp) editor for the respective state's legislative councils. Quite a hardship and double payments. Had to go as far as Austin the second time. After the first time away, when I returned after four months, I'd found that a sweet lost soul I would run into sometimes had been brutally--and I mean painfully brutally--murdered. Not the first murder, either, and recently a nearby maniac beat up his "wife," shaved his daughter's head, and hurt the dog. They are all gone, thank God. Many strays, neglected animals. Hell does exist, and it's in little Mexico, the most monocultural and prejudiced and backward (after Miss.) state in the Union. Wait for me, Charleston, SC. Don't let me die here.
No Thank You
Roger Dodger good. Don’t come here.
The High Desert of NEW MEXICO, a place not OVER Valued... 😎
I am surrounded by junk humans all day in the city.
They find sun bleached bones every spring. Its NOT a pure place it’s cruddy, violent and suitable only for coyotes not civilized humans.
Definitely gives off wild wild west vibes there... very desolate for sure... once they can’t go into town to get food they’ll turn into cannibals
Where can i get a piece of land here on land contract? Is property safe when having to leave? Was looking at sorroo county but this looks like a nice place for me and my dogs
Where is this i want a piece of land where people leave me the f alone
Gona be honest, that place looks 3rd world
Gestavo _ Who cares how it looks? You'll be living free and debt free!
Andres Patino anf of course You not make any $$$, and when you got sick and need to get medical treatment You Will feel so bad!!
Tune in, turn on and drop out...
You should go to Mexico and see what poverty and misery really are.
There'll be people very strongly attracted to this and others immediately repelled by it.
I knew Yuppies would finally show up out there. When I reach that incredible spot on the drive to Taos the *second* thing I see are the hovels. It's a sickening sight.
and they are packing "Gold Cards"
That lady didn't seem like a "yuppie" to me. Sounds like you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
I have a hundred year old 12 foot well in my house. It is not potable so we have to haul drinking water. We conserve on water for washing because the well tends to go dry. I is amazing to learn how much water you don't need.
I can show you how to make your well deeper by hand, you can go a hundred feet if you set this rig up right, I did my own on my property, I have an underground spring, I hit water at four feet took it down to 15 feet and the water is great, very cold and clean, I can pump that well all day long! When I set out to do this I didn't know how deep the water was, so I bought a hand auger for 78 dollars from sears, then I went to Home Depot and had them cut me some heavy duty 1 inch pipes into 30 inch sections and had them thread the piping which was free to thread it for connectors to connect the pipes as I needed them! I bought 40 feet of piping to start and figured if the water was deeper than forty feet I would go back and get more piping! So I dug down with the auger until I has a foot sticking out of the ground, used an adapter that connected my one inch pipe to five eights on the auger, I just added pipe as I got deeper, the only thing is once you fill auger with dirt you have to pull it out then put it back in he hole and dig again! Two guys as the more pipe you add the heavier it gets when you pull it out! If you have to go pretty deep I would set up a hoist with a pulley system to pull it back up swing it over knock the dirt out and drop it back in the hole! Also there are ways to make your water safe to drink, running it through sand and charcoal like they use in fish tanks an a black light to kill any bacteria! If you want some picture of the rig I made to drill the well so you can get the right stuff let me know!
do you live near this place.
i think these survival huts have ruined the pristine nature of the New Mexico Desert .
I'm preparing to make a transition to this area. I am currently offgrid in South Carolina. But the liberal local government and fancy pants carpet baggers from up north make it very difficult to do this here. Cant even install a septic tank without 3 different pre inspections. Soil test, compaction test, and location in accordance with the water table. Then after paying nearly 5k to have a tank installed then you have to have the county come out again to tell you if you can connect to it. They wont let us build privys anymore even if it is out in the woods, and they also are cracking down on rain water catches. People in the suburbs dont like the sounds of wind generators, so they got them banned. So its only a matter of time til a county code enforcer will threaten me with a fine to take down my turbine. I am also paying over 800 dollars a year for taxes on 2.5 acres. Which I'm paying 29k for. Cant wait to get out to the desert! 🏜 I dont want or need some chumps sticking their nose in my business when I pay my taxes and keep to myself. Its crazy.
Very important information, I appreciate your report! Currently looking for desert ish land too.
That is so interesting . The country is a similar to outback Australia . Our biggest problem is WATER as it would be with you . If it's OK with the Dalai Lama , it must be a nice place
Russell Brain - I don't see the resemblance. The winters here get lots of snowfall, and the wind chill gets really nasty. There is a ski resort nearby.
Derrick Bridges - It doesn't snow in the Australian outback, does it?
it did once - about 1,000,000 years ago .
australia is quite wet actually - aspecially in the lakes LOL . Certainly a VAST area of Australia is D R Y . Some places up North , coastal towns , have exceptionally high rain fall .
Very brave woman. May Ishwar keep her healthy. Thanks for publishing this video.
@je&moi-meme * "Ishwar" means "God" in Sanskrit/Hindi.
How are you doing now?
Do you still live there... Do you still use Solar?
Where is this I want to go three. Looking for cheap land to live off grid.
"People escaping from the law and life in general"..looks like a tweaker paradise with all the trash and all. What a shame .
this is really interesting. I just moved to Albuquerque www.drhorton.com/New-Mexico/Albuquerque , but this was really fascinating, I may need to go for a drive and check it out. thanks for posting
Lucy Conner...don't do it...in fact you should probably pack your trash and get the hell out of Albuquerque....you'll see
The wife lived in Barstow Calif, back in the early 60's . Temperatures in the summer could go as high as 120 degrees. She said it was hell and was glad to get out.
I live in NM and this place probably rarely hits a triple digit temp. The winters are brutal here.
Ouch. While my parents were at a seminar, I swam half day at the motel pool. Then I sun bathed on hazel weather in Arizona. I looked like a cooked lobster. It was 113 degrees that day.
Wow.water anywhere ??? Food source ?
im glad for you man ! thanks for sharing your awesome story :)
trust me on this..dont go out there..it really sux.
I agree with you it takes a special person to do this kind of thing not just anybody can do this