Comments on: I would like to go off the grid http://stevereads.com/weblog/2008/08/21/i-would-like-to-go-off-the-grid/ Books and policy from an endlessly curious perspective Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Seth http://stevereads.com/weblog/2008/08/21/i-would-like-to-go-off-the-grid/comment-page-1/#comment-6096 Seth Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:05:26 +0000 http://stevereads.com/weblog/?p=4306#comment-6096 <p>I think you should rent a condo, pedal your bike into town each day, and walk around demanding that people give you a massage, since you just finished a long ride. I guarantee you will have more success than you can imagine.</p> I think you should rent a condo, pedal your bike into town each day, and walk around demanding that people give you a massage, since you just finished a long ride. I guarantee you will have more success than you can imagine.

]]> By: Paul http://stevereads.com/weblog/2008/08/21/i-would-like-to-go-off-the-grid/comment-page-1/#comment-6088 Paul Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:25:16 +0000 http://stevereads.com/weblog/?p=4306#comment-6088 <p>We are going with a close friend to P-town on Labor Day, I think. We're taking the ferry. Our motivations are not exactly the same as yours, but boy can I identify with want to get the F out of Boston/Brookline/Cambridge. Looks like you're not getting much advice in the comments (although mrz's are helpful). If you do find out more about what's good to do there, do drop me a line or send some love through the rss feed. I'll be curious to know what you come across.</p> We are going with a close friend to P-town on Labor Day, I think. We’re taking the ferry. Our motivations are not exactly the same as yours, but boy can I identify with want to get the F out of Boston/Brookline/Cambridge. Looks like you’re not getting much advice in the comments (although mrz’s are helpful). If you do find out more about what’s good to do there, do drop me a line or send some love through the rss feed. I’ll be curious to know what you come across.

]]> By: mrz http://stevereads.com/weblog/2008/08/21/i-would-like-to-go-off-the-grid/comment-page-1/#comment-6087 mrz Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:37:32 +0000 http://stevereads.com/weblog/?p=4306#comment-6087 <p>I'm kind of disappointed by the title vis-a-vis the content. I thought you were going to tell us about how you wanted to move out to the country, build a stressed-soil house with recycled glass windows and doors, heat it with geothermal, and power it with solar and wind. Instead, we get some junk about going to the Cape without a cell phone! Pft!</p> <p>But seriously, Provincetown is nice on the "just" off-season. I went up there at, I think, around that time a while ago. It's still quite nice, though, a lot of the restaurants/things-to-do kind of close down a bit. So be prepared to rough it a bit, maybe go to a market and make your own food. I recall staying in a 4 room cabin in Truro, which is the next town over, and it was reasonably inexpensive. So you might want to look into something like that. Also, because of the off-season-ness you might need to bring your own bike. To avoid traffic and be "off the grid" you might also want to look into taking a boat from Boston to P-town.</p> <p>Maybe you can't do it now, but some folks I knew used to do a bike-a-thon up the cape to P-town for charity. They give you massages at the end! But you could do something like this: ride up to P-town for charity, then ride back over the next week, sightseeing and B&B-ing (or camping) on the way back.</p> I’m kind of disappointed by the title vis-a-vis the content. I thought you were going to tell us about how you wanted to move out to the country, build a stressed-soil house with recycled glass windows and doors, heat it with geothermal, and power it with solar and wind. Instead, we get some junk about going to the Cape without a cell phone! Pft!

But seriously, Provincetown is nice on the “just” off-season. I went up there at, I think, around that time a while ago. It’s still quite nice, though, a lot of the restaurants/things-to-do kind of close down a bit. So be prepared to rough it a bit, maybe go to a market and make your own food. I recall staying in a 4 room cabin in Truro, which is the next town over, and it was reasonably inexpensive. So you might want to look into something like that. Also, because of the off-season-ness you might need to bring your own bike. To avoid traffic and be “off the grid” you might also want to look into taking a boat from Boston to P-town.

Maybe you can’t do it now, but some folks I knew used to do a bike-a-thon up the cape to P-town for charity. They give you massages at the end! But you could do something like this: ride up to P-town for charity, then ride back over the next week, sightseeing and B&B-ing (or camping) on the way back.

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