Alone in the Past

[Alderic]

So, I came across an article on a blog someone shared on Facebook earlier...skimmed the pictures and just had to look into it more.
Basically, this guy is spending 6 months living in the early medieval period during the winter. And we all know the reputation the Russian winter has.

Anyway, here's a trailer for it...


Eventually found the actual project pages. Ones an info page, and another a blog. Both are in Russian, so you may want to use Chrome or something that can translate it. Probably won't help with the blog much since most seems to be video.
Info Page
Project Blog

Even if you can't understand a single word I'm sure there's quite a bit we could still learn quite a bit from this. Haven't gotten a chance to look through too much yet but I know what I'm doing later.

[Greg]

Open the pages using Google Chrome and it will automatically offer to translate it. I did, and though there are a few verbiage errors for modern English, it's understandable. This is incredible...there is a complete map of what is essentially an 800+ years past homestead on that page. This is incredible.

[Ringulf]

Wow this is really cool Greg, I love this sort of thing! I even got into the show on the Nat Geo channel the other day about the Legend of Nick Dodge.
Even though I would be dead in a month or two without the meds I need, I often fantasize about returning to a natural life, one that is simple and uncomplicated but a challenge each day to live.

[Straelbora]

Awesome. Over the last few weeks, I've been thinking that I wanted to polish up my Russian, since I really don't get to use it, and this website is the perfect place to do it- it's not 'literary,' so I'm not looking up every other word, and it's preeminently interesting to me as a topic, so I'm motivated to keep reading.

[Cinead]

Not that i can speak a bit of Russian....and some would say that we in Kentucky barely speak English...this is still excellent!

[Sindara]

Hey, thanks for posting this, Alderic! Sign me up - I'd be right at home in that situation - well, maybe not in Russia, but somewhere on our side of the pond! With my first marriage, lived next to the Yolla Bolla Wilderness area in north California. No 'electricity, got water from the spring, cooked over the wood stove, or outside over the fire pit. Bathed in a big metal 'tub' - during the winter (heated water on the wood stove), bathed, and did laundry, in the creek in the summer. No fridge (used the spring, or a 'cooler' box, had an outhouse. Was an hour's drive to shopping. Loved it! Have to say, I really miss that life! Would go back to that (well, not that marriage) lifestyle in a heartbeat! Sindara

[Alderic]

One of the things I really like about this is that's it's not a report made after the fact, that guy is actually out there right now and we're getting an update almost every day.

While I wouldn't want to live like that for an extended time, at least alone, I wouldn't mind having the option to go out for a few days to get away from modern life.