in 2014 my brother and I started a trucking company, and although it has accomplished part of what I wanted it to, I now wish I had never gotten involved. I'm just not mentally suited for driving long term. Apparently I've spent too much of my life working in peace, with natural surroundings. When I go to driving full time the stress builds until it's too much. Driving naked helps a little, but not much. I was out 6 weeks since first of December, been home 2 weeks, have to go out 2 more just to satisfy some money hungry truck. So I'm planning on quitting that permanently, try to set up salad farming like I wanted to long ago.
But anyway, the best day on the road was an off road day. I have to take a day off every week, so the last Saturday in December I was in the middle of Texas. Parked on an isolated exit next to some desert hills, it was quite cool and foggy in the morning, but about 10:30 the fog cleared and sun took over, and it warmed just enough to make a naked hike feel good. So I jumped the fence, lost the fabric and spent the rest of the day wandering up the wash and around the hills. Nicest day of the whole time out. Although there was a threatening sign on the small road going trough the fence lower down, disappearing into the brush somewhere else and staying out of sight was easy. Edge of the hills was in full sight of the interstate highway, but I could stay just back from the edge when over that way so I wouldn't be silhouetted against the sky from below. The whole day in the sun got my tan started, but it wasn't strong enough to get sun burnt even though I didn't have much tan left from summer. I burn pretty slow anyway. But other than a couple more weeks out. I'm looking forward to a whole summer in the garden, a new garden up on the mountainside, and try to make the garden pay so I can stay there and turn it into a naturist paradise of sorts. Aint much paradise anywhere in this world, but I can make as much of one as possible. Build a shelter beside the little part time stream and have all my natural food right there. Spring water to irrigate with and abundant firewood to make biochar from, (and keep warm when needed) Its as ideal a lifestyle as I can invent. And as I grow nutrient dense vegetables and fruits, and eat them, I want to see what kind of health it will give me. I've seen hints of what is possible, and it's greater than most people imagine is possible.
But so far since I've been home January has been too cold for any outside nude work. I'm just getting my pickup fixed, swapping engines, and aiming at getting things set up to make that garden work. Got the track hoe track put back on it and drove it home 3 miles through the woods. (since the truck that can move it is out on the road) It was taken over to the co-owners home last summer and used till it lost it's track. Then left for me to fix. Meanwhile the key got lost and they couldn't tell me where it went. So along with the track job I pulled the key switch drum out and figured out how to take the tumblers out of it. So now it works with any key, or a screwdriver. But I'm not telling anyone what I did, so they still have to find their key. That track hoe is the main thing the trucking has earned me, my first $10,000 in pay went into the job that earned it, dozer rental and fuel. plus a whole lot of work digging the stumps on 30 acres and smoothing it to plant grass. It was not a good deal in my estimation, could have had the machine a lot easier just by saving the money till we had enough to buy one. But I learned to be real careful on any job to earn something other than a fixed payment. It's real easy to get into something that takes a lot more work than it's worth. But anyway it's here and makes clearing the garden sites possible, it will rip trees out in no time and move rocks easily, up to large boulders.
