In the Wild

 As Kadizzle putted about up in the forest a man sitting in a chair under a tree waved. This sign of friendliness inspired Kadizzle to stop and chat with the fellow. He had a tiny pop up camper that he pulled with a Jeep. The little camper was held together with duct tape and other glue like corrections. A few days later Kadizzle stopped again. This time the man who appeared to be in his sixties showed Kadizzle his little electric model airplane glider. These things look fun and Kadizzle renewed his desire to get one. You can get them up and fly on thermals like the birds do.  Living on the edge is not that uncommon for old duffers. This guy was living a minimal life.  A solar panel provided him with all this power. No refrigerator, just a cooler. In a country with so much there are a lot of people living a hardscrabble life. You can get by on very little if you have to. Kadizzle noticed a strange trend among the bum walkers. Some of the bums are beginning to adopt ebikes. How nice to no longer have to rely on a pedal bike or a shopping cart. Visiting big cities one now sees a lot of American success stories with the people living under bridges. Some good people are building bum nest for the homeless. Denver has a little bum nest area along the rail line to town. Some group has built tiny little homes for the homeless and fenced in the area. 

Actually you can live very well in a small space. We have been in the Earth Module for almost a year. The Earth Module is a deluxe bum shack. We lack nothing. We have a nice TV, shower, microwave, LED lights, heat, air conditioning, stove, refrigerator, and so on.  All of this is on wheels and about eight feet by 34 feet.  Some space is added with the slide outs.  Now the irony of all this is the number of people living in huge homes with so much excess space they really don't need or use. The Kadizzles were guilty of this with our old home. We never used the basement except when the kids came home. The living room was rarely used and so it was with a lot of the house.  We use every inch of the Earth Module. There is no poverty problem in the world, just a distribution problem.  Republican greed is the root of all evil.