Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

Elio, 84mpg, $6,800. I hope it's not vaporware.

Now taking $100 non refundable deposits.

Toyman01 wrote:

wearymicrobe wrote:

Toyman01 wrote: In reply to wearymicrobe: I seriously dream abut getting off the rat wheel. Might be time to slow down and smell the roses.

Even if I could just cut down to 40 hours a week I would be happy, and maybe move out of San Diego where a shack is not 750K. That bike and a small shipping container house just might be my escape cabin if I could find some decent land up north near the coast.

Cranking the money machine to feed the consumer machine is getting old. If I didn't have two kids still in school and a wife, I think I'd be living in a camper in the woods somewhere, and doing handy man work for cash and food. I've done broke and enjoyed life just as much as I do now, if not more. This may well be me in 10 years.

I have no kids and 7 figures invested and I still cannot break free. I love the stuff that I make, and it is important work, its just the people that make it unbearable. No wife though and I would be living in a barn in some god forsaken part of the country living on interest and consulting work that I could do by network and telling everyone else to piss off. Her version of ruffing it is the four seasons.

wearymicrobe wrote:

Toyman01 wrote:

wearymicrobe wrote:

Toyman01 wrote: In reply to wearymicrobe: I seriously dream abut getting off the rat wheel. Might be time to slow down and smell the roses.

Even if I could just cut down to 40 hours a week I would be happy, and maybe move out of San Diego where a shack is not 750K. That bike and a small shipping container house just might be my escape cabin if I could find some decent land up north near the coast.

Cranking the money machine to feed the consumer machine is getting old. If I didn't have two kids still in school and a wife, I think I'd be living in a camper in the woods somewhere, and doing handy man work for cash and food. I've done broke and enjoyed life just as much as I do now, if not more. This may well be me in 10 years.

I have no kids and 7 figures invested and I still cannot break free. I love the stuff that I make, and it is important work, its just the people that make it unbearable. No wife though and I would be living in a barn in some god forsaken part of the country living on interest and consulting work that I could do by network and telling everyone else to piss off. Her version of ruffing it is the four seasons.

Me, too. I'd like nothing better than to live in a garage with only a bathroom, a bed and a way to call for pizza. Maybe I'll build something like this:

THIS is a weed whacker.

http://www.chonday.com/Videos/excamuoich2

Someone tacked this up on my bulletin board...

^^^ Fake

Everyone forgets Michael Collins.

Will Smith's "camper" when he's on a set.

In reply to wearymicrobe:

I used to know a guy who sold just about all his worldly goods, bought a double bay shop with a mezzanine in an industrial complex and moved his trailer, racecars and shop into it.

He lived in the trailer in his shop.

You do get a bit strange after a while though. About once a week, one of us would drop by and take him out for breakfast somewhere so he still had some form of human contact.

Trans_Maro wrote: In reply to wearymicrobe: I used to know a guy who sold just about all his worldly goods, bought a double bay shop with a mezzanine in an industrial complex and moved his trailer, racecars and shop into it. He lived in the trailer in his shop. You do get a bit strange after a while though. About once a week, one of us would drop by and take him out for breakfast somewhere so he still had some form of human contact.

I want human contact, just not a barrage of it on a daily basis. I don't want people to come looking for me and hear.

Though being close to the coast so I could surf would be best. Plus I do not think I could live without California burritos. I guess what I want is more balance for everybody. I work 60+ hours a week average if you count the weekends, what is wrong with someone like me working say 20 hours a week at a big company but working till I am 75 or so. I would have a much better quality of life, and I would bust all kinds of hump in those 20 hours.

If not for my friend's upcoming wedding, I'd be pulling $500 from savings for this.