Ha! Gotcha. Bet y'all thought I'd gone to the dark side.
Anyway. As tiring as the whole "Alone" thing is, it did get me thinking about something that happened some years ago. It seems in the early 1990s that a couple of Tlingit kids (17 yo) beat a pizza delivery guy with a baseball bat to get his $40. They were about to get sent up the river when a tribal elder appeared and wanted custody of them to administer tribal justice of banishment to separate tribal islands for 18 mos. Everybody thought it was a good idea. I thought it sounded like fun. So, the judge releases them and they disappear, all three of them. Come to find out there was no tribal punishment of banishment and the tribal elder who got them released was a con man. I don't know that they've been seen since.
Every now and then I think about how nice it would be to leave the cares and worries of modern life behind for 18 mod and just live in the woods.
Too bad it's only a con.
Alan
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