yeah he did that but first he made his money--that is how he was able to afford living in the desert, planning to build his windmill. I don't knock the guy for reevaluating his life and taking a different path. But his previous lifestyle affords him his new one. In this world you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

I used to love going hiking in the bushland near my old house, until I was slapped with a tresspassing charge. What mystified me was that there were no signs that it was private property, and the only fence in the entire area was rusty and half-collapsed. Everyone had assumed it was abandoned, and everyone walked their dogs around there because it was nice, hilly, rocky terrain that could really give your body a workout. Now, stuck out further, my only real option is walking around the streets - there's very few actual parks around here, and most of the truly good hiking areas are fenced off. I still try to take the time out to go hiking along the creek, but I'm a little more careful to watch out for other people now. On a more food-centric note, I recently started a vegetable garden with my mother. Using only horse manure, seaweed solution, lawn clippings and kitchen scraps we managed to get a 4kg pumpkin, at least 1kg of tomatoes (most of which are now being sun-dried or made into sauce because we can't eat them), enough spinach to fill a 5L bucket, and some truly gigantic zucchinis. I wasn't even aware that vegetables could get that BIG.We're not even on good soil - most of Adelaide is heavy clay, and very few things seem to like the climate. We water only once every few days, using a bucket (and we don't water if it's rained), and the plants only get fertiliser once every four or five weeks, if that. I was sure that growing your own fruit and vegetables took hours of effort, but it's actually the ultimate lazy-man's way to get food. The whole garden, for me, is only 4m away, and I can pick from it whenever I want, rather than waiting for a store to open. The tomatoes are in pots, and we're soon going to be potting lettuces, thornless blackberry brambles and fruit trees, as well as planting potatoes, onions, garlic and some raspberry canes. Even if you don't have a backyard, there's ways to grow vegetables - packing crates and old Styrofoam boxes are good, or you can buy actual pots if you feel like it. Fruit trees will even tolerate being potted, although the fruit will be much smaller (and IMO much nicer-tasting as a result). The stuff I can get from my garden makes store-bought vegetables seem bland, undersized, and overpriced for that.