Competent gentleness: three Cold War engineers who built worlds for their families by Nicolás Boullosa on August 6, 2026 On an Ozark hillside and in the Maine woods, the quiet engineers of the postwar era are leaving, and handing …
Living 35 ft underground: inside a preserved Titan II nuclear missile silo by Kirsten Dirksen on May 17, 2026 For decades, four missileers at a time lived 35 stories underground in this Titan II command complex outside Tucson, Arizona …
Family wanted to start over. They’re building opt-in village for anyone to apply by Kirsten Dirksen on May 10, 2026 Sarah and her family of 5 ditched the city grid for a radically self-sufficient life 45 minutes down a dirt …
Leaves rat race, digs himself remote earthen home with underground rotunda by Kirsten Dirksen on May 3, 2026 Sammy left his office job in Ohio to teach himself a completely different way of building. He moved to rural …
Charles Bello and the good in the “California mind”: in memoriam by Nicolás Boullosa on April 16, 2026 Between spectacle and solitude, a different kind of California comes into focus. Come visit landscapes, memories, and a special place …
Couple buys whole ghost village, tells others to join & fix their own ruin by Kirsten Dirksen on February 1, 2026 On a freezing winter day in northern Spain, we arrived in Bárcena de Bureba, a ghost village in the remote, …
Starting over in Ghost Town: they found perfect village to escape 9-to-5 by Kirsten Dirksen on September 28, 2025 Shaniko, Oregon — once the “Wool Capital of the World” — went bust more than a century ago and with …
Expandable home with loop-filtered water is indoor/outdoor game changer by Kirsten Dirksen on July 7, 2025 Experiencing MO.CA gives one the feeling of entering a new type of experiencing mobile living: it’s flexible, indoor/outdoor, and entirely …
Building budget homestead little by little in ‘worthless,’ remote (is)land by Kirsten Dirksen on June 16, 2025 Thirty years ago, Vici stood on the rocky hillsides of Serifos and imagined a home made of stone — like …
Solar sailing & the spirit of Walden: charging with the sun, thinking with Thoreau by Nicolás Boullosa on June 5, 2025 A journey that began with a baby in a pouch, a college dorm bed, and Thoreau’s pond. From solar cars …
