Are you high maintenance and need central heating and running water and whatnots?

@okaybut I've done that. Not six months, though. Not in temperate climates. That would be suicide. I could hang on the western side of the Sierra Madre at about 17 degrees latitude, and I have done three months in the Pacific Northwest. Give me a sharp knife and some commo wire and I can make it as long as it doesn't drop below freezing for any length of time. I'm just too old for the cold. Plenty strong, but susceptible if you know what I mean.

@puck61 Sounds awesome! :) And me too...I headed out before the cold.

@okaybut You must have been somewhere pretty nice to go six months without cold! I think most grown men can figure out that friction makes enough heat to make a fire. It would kind of be interesting to see how the average modern male would fare if the the big EMP came and Yellowstone went live! I am proud to say that even at my age, a sharp knife and some good wire or cord would keep me healthy for a while.l

@puck61 It's a sad truth that most humans don't know how to foredge, don't know what plants and roots they can eat, don't know they can "tap" a tree for it's sap, don't know how to build a shelter, don't know how to start a fire without matches and think because they go to McDonald's they'd automatically know how to hunt

@AliceTinker I thank God for my mother who taught me herb lore, and I guess I have to give some credit to the military. If the balloon went up, I would probably be a lot healthier in a matter of months!

@puck61 LOL so would I. That's amazing she taught you that, with me it was my gran, she would point out herbs growing wild and give me tips on remembering what I could use them for and that they could save my life.

@AliceTinker It's a regular buffet of invasive species here! Florida.

@puck61 We don't really have very many herbs growing wild in Wales anymore too much spruce forestry very acid soil. Lots of invasive wild plants here. Japanese knotweed which can destroy a house. Lots of ground elder that the Romans introduced you can eat it, tastes of nothing but it will help keep you alive. Been getting into collecting seaweed, nice fried.

@AliceTinker I know you have what we call 'miner's lettuce' and fern sprouts? Dandelion? Mullen?

@puck61 oh sure, sorry what I meant was not as much as when I was a child, they were everywhere then or seemed to be. A few months ago I had no veg so picked tons of dandelions, ate the whole plants from top to bottom.
Not sure about fern sprouts? Will look that up. Not really up on my ferns, just know the ones you can worm dogs with.