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Later on 03 September 2005

And what a place! The site alone is worth the trip. All around us are high mountains. Below us runs a river through a lush valley. The buildings are rough and ready, some of them, the cowboys’ bunkhouse for example, is basically a log cabin. Drinking water comes from a spring back up one of the hills; there is a cold-water tap in the kitchen. Personal hygiene is served by composting toilets inside or an outhouse near the corral. Showering is done outdoors with the aid of a solar-shower bag if you want the water warm, or a hose if you don’t care. Bathing can be done at a thermal warm (not hot) springs a 25-minute walk from here or in the river some 100 feet below the house. Electricity is provided by large solar panels out of sight on the roof and stored in a battery bank under the eaves. There is a telephone with more or less unlimited usage and a U.S.A. number. The house and the telephone work through wireless computers, rather strange when you consider that everything else here is basic. And by “basic”, I mean “primitive”.

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