Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 1

So..this is an introduction or something... I guess a good starting point is 'Hello...' and if someone says 'Nice to meet you' I then say 'We will determine that later...' with the most serious face I can muster and sometimes folks laugh and sometimes I don't laugh along with them but sometimes I do and those are the folks that I then enjoy barraging with my banter about my strange experiences of life here on earth living as a bi-pedal homanoid in the late twenty-first century lacking any physical indication that my ancestors had webbed feet or a prehensile tail and is thankful that the rock we travel upon at roughly sixty-seven thousand miles per hour through space around a nuclearly exploding sun has yet to have anyone control it's trajectory through said space or around said sun.

I went 'off grid' five hundred and sixty-four days ago and it has been quite the journey since I got dropped off at this old fallow farm and built (continue to build) all my own infrastructure. I have been video documenting the entire process and in time I hope that I can share some of them publicly. I have not made these videos public but I have been sharing them privately since I started the entire process which I call Jacob Goes Off Grid In The Woods. 'Day 1' is the morning after I arrived at this little place in the mountains in the 'dead of winter' on January thirteenth of two thousand and seventeen with my dogs, my wits, minimal gear and very little hard currency to work with. Slowly I have done my best to breathe life into a very old farm and give it all my best, 'learning as I go', and documenting the process as best I can. It has been quite the journey so far and I'm hoping to share here some of my experiences perhaps in a similar manner as I share on other platforms.

I was really hung up on writing this post for the last several weeks since my account was approved but now that I have all I really want to say is 'Hi. I'm Jacob.' @jacobpeacock

This video is the first morning after my arrival at the site. A friend of mine visited the site a few days before my arrival and left me a tent, tarp and a few other supplies that I needed. Upon arrival it was tricky to even find a place to unload all my gear (from a different friend's vehicle) yet alone find a good place to setup a tent. There were literally briers, brambles, wild-raspberries and multiflora everywhere except in the 'driveway' itself. It had also been raining a lot for several weeks before my arrival so everywhere was wet, mucky and slippery. This is the very first video that I make and it and the next seventeen days of videos I accidentally shot sideways with my phone so I had to rotate them before uploading them.

Other Videos:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 1
Day Three Part Two:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 2 Part 1
Day Two Part Part One:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 3 Part 1
Day Three Part One:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 3 Part 2
Day Three Part Two:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 3 Part 3
Day Three Part Three:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 3 Part 4
Day Three Part Four:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 4 Part 1
Day Four Part One:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 5 Part 1
Day Five Part One:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 5 Part 2
Day Five Part Two:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 6 Part 1
Day Six Part One:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 6 Part 2
Day Six Part Two:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 7 Part 1
Day Seven Part One:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 7 Part 2
Day Seven Part Two:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 7 Part 3
Day Seven Part Three:

Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 8 Part 1
Day Eight Part One: