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- Looks amazing. Just finagle a small solar array for power, some backup batteries and a satellite uplink for the web and I'd be there in a heartbest.by foodandart
- If you like these photos you should check out the paintings by artist Randy Wheeler. Like this photographer Randy embedded himself there and painted landscapes and portraits of guachos and Puesteros. https://www.realcowboyart.com/painting-category/patagonia/by arodako
- I was just looking up lightkeeper positions in my province. Unfortunately no openings right now. But it would be an interesting job for an introvert like myself.by _whiteCaps_
- > “What a shame to come to love the land that will never be mine.”
This reminded me of a song about the related job of arriero, aptly titled "El arriero", which includes these lyrics:
"Las penas y las vaquitas se van por la misma senda. Las penas son de nosotros, las vaquitas son ajenas"
Which (loosing the musicality) can be translated as:
"The sorrows and the cows go down the same road. The sorrows belong to us, the cows do not"
by fipar - These photos are beautiful: https://media.newyorker.com/photos/6a7f7ed55b6cfa7eff424505/...by wxw
- Yesterday I was reading about this place in Oregon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Shirk_Ranch
Today, with a modern vehicle, it is 1.5 hours from the nearest 'town' and 2 from the county seat, which has 2000 people.
I can't imagine how remote that must have been in 1900. What the seasons must have looked like going by, and how far the rest of the world must have felt.
by davidw - Good article about living at a remote estancia at the bottom of Argentina, January 1971, 'The Housewife at the End of the World'. Not too much has changed since then.
https://archive.org/details/edg-ng-1961/edg%20NG%201971-01%2...
by sriacha - by bookofjoe