i'm leaving next week for a six month long hike through the appalachian mountains. in a couple of places you're walking, by yourself, and twenty miles from the nearest roads. i guess that counts.

In the backwoods of Oklahoma , believe it or not, you can die if you stumble upon a meth lab. I live to tell the story.

I grew up in a small village named Muniches on the bank of the Itaya river about 2 hours by boat upstream from Iquitos Peru.

Iquitos cannot be reached by land. Only by boat or airplane. There were no roads out of there. In the middle of the Amazon jungle on the bank of the Amazon river which is still about 4 miles wide at that point.

About 8 more hours upstream was a smaller village named Cawidi. That's about as "backwoods" as I have ever been. There were so many mosquitoes that the chickens would get fat just pecking them out of the air. I think we were the first white people they had ever seen.

i only see one business in dryden open when i cruise thru. only a few houses and sanderson seems to be boarding everything up as far as businesses.

Sanderson TX seemed like a metropolis to me when we moved there. I wonder if there is anybody living in Dryden TX now? (about 20 miles from Sanderson)