Roger Long wrote:

My boating tastes are a little too Amish like for that. I can't
believe I have a boat with hot and cold running water and am using a
GPS. One of my ambitions when I was young was to have a boat without
a single piece of electric wire in it, hand start diesel, kerosene
lamps. Well, maybe a flashlight but that wire would only run from the
back of the case to the bulb. Wood, of course, but that's something
else that has faded away with my youth.



When I lived in West Virginia in the 80s there was a hippy dude and his
family nearby who had built a house in the middle of the boonies
(everything in West Virginia is in the middle of the boonies) without
any gas or electric powered tools. I walked through it. It was a very
small two story structure, but still impressive, especially when you
include the area he had cleared of trees.

When I met him, though, he and his family had moved into a nearby
Victorian farmhouse that he had bought from the neighbor.

Not saying you should use an electric toilet, but, um surely it is wise
to take advantage of modern advantages.

--
Stephen

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