If You Could Go "Daniel Boone"...Would You...?

[Iraqgunz]

At least you would have me near by and we could by the suppressed sniper duo.

Where would I get my Whole Milk Grande Latte before my Saturday shoot?

Where would I chase tail?

How could I make posts on the web about how LWRCi sucks ass?

I couldn't do it!

[Mark/MO]

As a kid I always marveled at stories about Boone and the adventurous life he lived. The idea that there was undiscovered territory where one could just "go and make his own way" hunting and camping to survive was fascinating to a suburban kid like myself. A distant, extremely removed, relationship to Boone simply fueled the fire of my imagination.

Must have been an incredible time to be alive.

I agree, an incredible time to be alive. Growing up I was facinated reading about Boone, Lewis and Clark and others who lived that life. Heck, I've passed the half century point and still find it the stuff of daydreams. I tend to read a lot and love to read about those who have explored and lived for extended time in the wilds. And yes, I would still love to try living that way.

As a teenager a friend and I used to go on long weekend camping trips w/o tents or sleeping bags. A day pack with just a blanket, skillet, potatoes, an onion or two, cornmeal, 22 pistol and maybe a fishing rod. We called them "catch what you eat" weekends. Squirrels, rabbit, fish, frog legs, fried potatoes, etc. We'd typically wander down a small river in the local area, camping under the stars beside a fire. I always thought of Boone or Lewis and Clark and feel for a brief moment there in the dark what it must have been like. Probably doesn't sound like a big deal but to a kid it was heaven.

[LHS]

Always sounds like fun until I remember I'd have to be my own dentist.

This. This also is why TEOTWAWKI/SHTF would suck.

[JohnnyC]

After reading Hatchet in elementary school, and, in my mind romanticizing the outdoors, I thought it would be great to get away from everything. Then I realized how difficult it would be in souther Arizona, even with the foodstuffs we have here. I wouldn't mind going out for a couple weeks, but a long haul might be tough out here. It would definitely be a steep learning curve, one that I freely admit I am not as prepared for as I should be.

[SteyrAUG]

I agree, an incredible time to be alive. Growing up I was facinated reading about Boone, Lewis and Clark and others who lived that life. Heck, I've passed the half century point and still find it the stuff of daydreams. I tend to read a lot and love to read about those who have explored and lived for extended time in the wilds. And yes, I would still love to try living that way.

As a teenager a friend and I used to go on long weekend camping trips w/o tents or sleeping bags. A day pack with just a blanket, skillet, potatoes, an onion or two, cornmeal, 22 pistol and maybe a fishing rod. We called them "catch what you eat" weekends. Squirrels, rabbit, fish, frog legs, fried potatoes, etc. We'd typically wander down a small river in the local area, camping under the stars beside a fire. I always thought of Boone or Lewis and Clark and feel for a brief moment there in the dark what it must have been like. Probably doesn't sound like a big deal but to a kid it was heaven.

Some of my fondest memories are sleeping outside under the stars when I was a kid visiting my grandparents in Iowa. While I was quite as spartan as you (I brought along an old wooden GI cot, pillow and blanket) falling asleep staring at the full moon was nothing short of awesome. Waking up to a crisp, cold morning with an iron skillet full of bacon (sometimes we'd bring eggs) on the campfire was the way to wake up.

[Honu]

Makes me want to get the Daniel Boone shows from the 60s and show my kids used to love that show

[variablebinary]

People do it all the time.

Yellowstone is filled with people who've fallen off the face of civilized earth.

There are caravan communities with residents that are beholden to no one.

Most people just don't have the balls to do it, or love the modern world too much to let it all go.

I had a good English friend that went to Thailand for 5 years. No one heard from her. She was just gone. Turned up in Scotland one day, like everything was fine. She was living on a beach somewhere in a hut.

[Suwannee Tim]

Always sounds like fun until I remember I'd have to be my own dentist.

I'm pretty good at that, with a toothbrush and floss I can keep them clean enough they don't need anything else. I'd have a harder time being my own Cardiologist or Gastroenterologist. I do the Dan'l Boone thing after a fashion. A week on some remote river or lake, you can get pretty far from civilization. In the North, Canada or Alaska, you can get way far from civilization. I haven't done anything there for the last 12 years. I am thinking of getting an Emergency Locator Beacon. I wouldn't go back to Alaska or Canada without one. A friend went on a 4 week trip in the Canadian Arctic. When he came back 7 weeks later he weighed 30 pounds less. And he didn't have 30 pounds of flab to loose.

[viperashes]

I think it would be interesting to go somewhere and not necessarily so much do the Daniel Boone thing, but do the Book of Eli thing.

Just load up with whatever I could carry. Food, ammo, water, whatever, and just go. Walk until I found the place that I was looking for without ever really knowing exactly where that would be.

Interesting concept in my head, in practice, the world is too screwed up.

[Honu]

People do it all the time.

Yellowstone is filled with people who've fallen off the face of civilized earth.

There are caravan communities with residents that are beholden to no one.

Most people just don't have the balls to do it, or love the modern world too much to let it all go.

I had a good English friend that went to Thailand for 5 years. No one heard from her. She was just gone. Turned up in Scotland one day, like everything was fine. She was living on a beach somewhere in a hut.

a lot of people in the islands live off the grid not as much exploring as just living totally on their own
the good thing about many islands you cant die of heat and you cant freeze to death that easy so its basically just keep dry in the Hawaiian islands no predators except for the two leg ones plenty of food grows wild and trading is very big with many