[TML] Lower-tech colonies

[Richard Aiken]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've know re-enactors.  They spend a few weekends a year playing at it,
> usually driving in from air-conditioned homes or motels.  I've never met
> even 1 that wanted to *actually* live it.  :)

Most of the ones we had at our recent "Battle of Gatlinburg"
re-enactment slept in the field.  But most of their wives and kids
slept at motels in town, for at least some of the three nights.  I
remember one little girl in particular, wearing a bedroll/pack almost
as big as she was, straggling along at the end of a line formed by her
mother and older siblings as they marched away from the SUV: "Mom!
This stuff is *heavy!*"

So I'm thinking it would be the wives and kids who kept the more
enthusiastic from signing everybody up for a "back to nature" colony
world.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein