Living Alaska, Off the Grid

The Self-Sufficient Homestead

Photograph by Author Southeast Alaska

I was in a town yesterday that had no roads. It had a few board walks that allowed you to ride your ATV on, but it was clearly not designed for automobiles. They could build a road but chose not to. Reason being this whole community was off the grid. They even outlawed cell phone towers. There were some satellite dishes, they probably belonged to the Doctors’ and…