[pct-l] No one at home

Tortoise Tortoise73 at charter.net
Fri Sep 28 19:47:19 CDT 2012


As to taking care of your house, ask around and you may find someone to 
live there and take care of the small stuff in change for free rent.

A friends of mine in San Francisco takes six weeks visit in Switzerland. He 
shuts off the water and gas; just leaves the refrigerator and a light on a 
time on. A friend comes by every day or two to check on the place and 
remove the mail from the inside catch box to elsewhere. He in returns does 
the same for when his friend is gone.

Whether such a person would send your resupply packages and be reliable in 
doing so is a more open question.

Tortoise

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable
President John F Kennedy,  1962

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On 2012.09.27 19:33, mkwart at gci.net wrote:
> I find myself once again grappling with the perennial problem of
> planning my next long distance hiking project as a long distance hiker
> who doesn't have a parent or significant other who they live with or a
> cadre of dedicated friends who can take up the home maintenance slack
> (my friends are gone as much as me)--I am interested in the logistics of
> taking care of the home front without breaking the bank while on the
> trail for months at a time. I left for a ten day trip in June and when I
> returned discovered that my toilet had "run" almost the entire time
> resulting in a water bill of $350 for the month. I now turn off the
> water to the toilet when I'm gone for a long time, but what will happen
> next?
>
> Any suggestions from those of you out there who actually don't have
> someone at home to pick up the slack? I can't afford a full time home
> sitter--they charge a lot of money. So far I have used people through
> the local time bank to house sit and have invested in an automatic
> watering system for the yard. I live in a small, single family dwelling
> (956 square feet) with a yard--and I let the lawn dry out in summer.
> Moving is not an option at this time in my life. Maybe we should start a
> website for long distance hikers interested in helping each other take
> care of their homes while they are on the trail.
>
> Although many hikers are young and mobile  and could care less, the
> other major group of hikers are older folks who may own homes. I look
> forward to any tips hikers have to share about maintaining their homes
> while out on the long distance trail.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --Fireweed
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