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Zounds Paul and Voni! IÔÇÖve heard you describe your place in Texas and how you have tried to make your lives less complicated, but didnÔÇÖt realize how much you have minimized and simplified things. Annie and I are talking about doing the same thing and your example sets a high standard. I find we work to make money to maintain a house that is much more than we need, and buy other things we can do without. There is much to recommend having a place that is pure peace and a location to plan for your next road trip. Congratulations on taking the leap that others only talk about.
By the way the current temperature at the Fort Wainwright Army Airfield is -45 F. I was going to take a picture of the ice fog for the ice thread in the photography forum, but my camera froze.
I've been thinking on "remote" as compared to "isolated" since you can be pretty isolated but not necessarily remote. It's relative to your own frame of reference, too. A man from Iowa once told me they did a tourism study and qualified "tourist" as anyone who came from at least 100 miles away to shop or visit an area. I noted that in Montana, we usually call those kinds of visitors "family."
I thought it would be fun to find out where our most "remote" BMWMOA member resides.
I know I'm not the most remote, but I would bet I rank up somewhere with the top ten!
I live ten miles north west of Reed Point Mt. http://www.city-data.com/city/Reed-Point-Montana.html
Short riding season, but when summer comes along we have some of the best roads anywhere. I'm within an hour of Red Lodge and the Beartooth Highway and just a short twelve hour jaunt west on I-90 to Seattle.
1. Nearest grocery store is a 64 mile rountrip.
2. Nearest drive through coffee (City Brew...montana starbucks) is in Billings 130 mile roundtrip.
3. Nearest BMW shop Missoula, MT 580 miles roundtrip.
Tell us what remote spot you're from.........
Cheers!
Mike
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But my county has only 35,000 people and is 3/4 the size of Connecticut.
How in the world can you stand all that congestion. Here, Brewster county is larger than Connecticut with only 9,000 people - and 6,000 of those live in the few square miles of Alpine - leaving only 3,000 of the rest of us out in the country. And no traffic lights in the whole county either.
Paul and Voni-
If you don't mind me asking, I'd like to know:
1) How did you find your current home? and
2) Is it really as old as it looks?
Great place regardless!