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Step Two: Yurt Life
Today makes the end of our third week once again living in our little yurt (we lived in it for nine months when we remodeled our Encinitas house several years ago) in the back country of San Diego. It's near Mt. Palomar and Julian and is a one and a half hour drive from Encinitas. We love it up here! Bill likes to tell folks that we're 30 miles from the nearest stoplight! And our nearest neighbor is about a half mile down a dirt road. It's so pretty and peaceful, and there are some fall colors happening. The temperatures are perfect, although, I'm, of course, hankering for a storm!! As some of you know, we are completely off-grid up here, hauling up our water (100 gallons at a time), running off of batteries/inverter/generator/solar panel, and using a composting toilet.
We built our yurt from a kit (from Pacific Yurts in Oregon: http://pacificyurts.com/). It took about 4 months of driving up several days a week. We built the deck it sits on, did the interior walls, carpeting, tile, cabinets, plumbing, etc. ourselves. It was a great project! Our plan is to stay here until sometime in Jan., when we will hit the road! But we decided we should celebrate this New Year's Eve right here, which will also be our 10-yr yurt anniversary! Our first night here was Dec. 31, 1999.
Today makes the end of our third week once again living in our little yurt (we lived in it for nine months when we remodeled our Encinitas house several years ago) in the back country of San Diego. It's near Mt. Palomar and Julian and is a one and a half hour drive from Encinitas. We love it up here! Bill likes to tell folks that we're 30 miles from the nearest stoplight! And our nearest neighbor is about a half mile down a dirt road. It's so pretty and peaceful, and there are some fall colors happening. The temperatures are perfect, although, I'm, of course, hankering for a storm!! As some of you know, we are completely off-grid up here, hauling up our water (100 gallons at a time), running off of batteries/inverter/generator/solar panel, and using a composting toilet.
We built our yurt from a kit (from Pacific Yurts in Oregon: http://pacificyurts.com/). It took about 4 months of driving up several days a week. We built the deck it sits on, did the interior walls, carpeting, tile, cabinets, plumbing, etc. ourselves. It was a great project! Our plan is to stay here until sometime in Jan., when we will hit the road! But we decided we should celebrate this New Year's Eve right here, which will also be our 10-yr yurt anniversary! Our first night here was Dec. 31, 1999.
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