Now my real point, I've been at a cross road for awhile, when my mind is unsettled I run to the outdoors. Nothing like the power and tranquility of nature. Sitting on a bluff, or a ridge, hilltop or mountain top. My bush craft isn't up to the point that I could just drop off the face of civilization and disappear into the woods and walk a lifetime in Proenneke's footsteps. I need to practice starting a fire with a bow drill. I would have to decide to actually hunt, instead of just stalk for photos. Most importantly, I need to learn plant and mushroom identification. In the Into the Wild movie the dood mistook Inedible wild sweet pea, hedysarum mackenzii, with Edible Wild potatoe, hedysarum alpinum. I have far too much to learn on the plant and mushroom front to survive without a garden, or a super market. At some point, I also need to learn how to better dress meat, then smoke or dry it. While I understand how to dress most game, it has just been far too long since I last tried that, I would probably spoil more meat than I could butcher, again like the d00d in the movie.
The bush would be no place for Kjell either, he is just too much of a fraidy-cat and he really only eats dry food. Meisha would eat anything I would put in front of her, and if I wasn't careful anything in front of me. Kjell, not so much. He has to be almost starving before he would eat wet food, or even drink milk. I just wouldn't torture my buddy like that.
So it will be a couple of years before I could disappear into the woods....
More Later....
G
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