The Grose's Hit the Road!

The Beginning

In April of 2007 I left suburbia and took my family on a journey to find community.

What stuff we couldn't give away or sell we put in storage and we began traveling to the many tiny communities scattered across the landscape. I am referring to what are called "ecovillages" or "intentional communities".

Why would I do such a thing? TO START LIVING AN AUTHENTIC LIFE, that's why.

When you look with fresh eyes at the American lifestyle it's pathologies become obvious.

• Everyone is sick. We all know someone who has cancer, even little children are getting it. Autoimmune diseases, diabetes, and so on...are epidemic. Did you know the male sperm count is only 25% what it used to be a few decades ago? Something is very wrong here.
  
• We have all been taught to worship money but a tiny group of elites (The Fed) decide among themselves how much less it will be worth today.
  
• Our lives are spent constantly scurrying to keep up with an endless stream of obligations that leave us lonely and devoid of spirituality and love for nature.
• We've lost the time and interest for creative play with each other (but we sure know who's winning American Idol!)
  
• We put our children in "day care" and into goverment schools where they are indoctrinated and drugged into obedience to authority.
• We put our elders in "a home" where they are drugged, their savings are drained, and they waste away.
  
• We are milked like cows by a system DESIGNED to screw us, but we don't notice and we even defend it.
• Our so-called leaders do terror ops on us (9-11) and then demand our children to fight wars against the people they say did it, and we always fall for it! (Gulf of Tonkin, Pearl Harbor...what next?)
  
• Things are different this time though, as 9-11 signaled a change in The Plan. The police state has taken its gloves off (Patriot Acts, Military Commissions Act) and it looks like things are going to get ugly.
  

So what do we do about this? We can write letters to our congressman, we can vote, we can go out on the street and protest, but all of the solutions the system encourages are designed to be ineffective.

I think a good solution is to simply stop doing what we've been trained to do and do something magical instead: WITHDRAW from the system and start working with others to create a LOCAL situation that is healthy, nurturing, and independent.

And that is what WE are doing. We hope to find a community that is mutually acceptable to us--or form one--and then take up permanent residence there.

Our Trailer

Here is our new home, a 23 ft travel trailer. We had to learn a lot about load-leveling hitches and sway bars because my tough-guy jeep is really kind of a wuss. But we've learned to take our time and have gotten used to living in such a tiny space.





We'll keep you updated here on our progress.

Eric and Janet, Connor, and Alexis.