[pct-l] Fwd: Hiker-trash lifestyle and the Future...

[marmot marmot]

I'm going to see if I'm going to end up on some trail ---spring,summer,fall or if I can live in my house that I found in a resupply town.   Four more years  until I try.  Diane,what is "Slab City". Is that short for trailer park? 
All that has to happen is they remove the cap on SS and it's good forever.  Is that too much to ask? I don't think so.
Marmot
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> On Nov 21, 2013, at 6:03 PM, "Diane Soini" <dianesoini at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For a long time now I've seen the handwriting on the wall. My mom  
> tries to reassure me it'll all be okay, but I know better. People are  
> actively trying to eliminate social security and the big money will  
> certainly find a way to steal my 401K just when I need it. So ever  
> since I read a story in the LA Times in the 90s about a 66 year old  
> lady who lived on the PCT with her goat during the hiking season and  
> lived with her goat in a trailer in the winter I figured that's my  
> plan for retirement. Without the goat. Now that I've actually hiked  
> the trail I know what a great retirement it will be. Yep, the trail  
> in spring/summer/fall and Slab City or equivalent the rest of the  
> time. I try to remind myself of this as much as I can because I still  
> wake up in a panic now and then. I know I can't be useful to the work  
> world forever. There has to be somewhere to go when I'm actual  
> garbage to the regular world. Hiker trash is the best form of garbage.
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