"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately..."

[WilliamPitt]

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

- Henry David Thoreau

My new neighborhood:



Boston in my rearview, by deliberate design.

Roll, wheel.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. kinda looks like the woods behind our house. When we are on our deck, it is just

my wife and I, our dogs, and whatever birds and insects and other critters wish to visit our feeders or flowers. we can't see any neighbors' houses or yards. We love it.

Balm for the soul!

[rug]

2. Except Henty was supported in his contemplation by the workers in his father's pencil factory.

[Squinch]

11. And often walked the few hundred yards to his parents' home for a hot dinner.

But hell, his ideas kick ass.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began...

Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow if I can...

Be well, my dear Will!

For you and yours, forever...

[snappyturtle]

4. I'm getting closer to the day of the same...can't wait. Looks

like my beloved northwoods in MN. Ahhh...........

[Jenoch]

7. We are lucky enough to

have 140 acres of woods that resemble the OP's photo in Itasca County. (We bought it for less than $200/acre almost 15 years ago.)

[snappyturtle]

8. Beautiful country! I had a home first on Woman Lake in Cass County

and then one on Thunder Lake. Still rue the day I sold the last one.
You bought yourself a gem. I was selling real estate in the late
90's...busy time. Haven't decided exactly where to go this time.
My grown kids are in the Cities....so.........but maybe I can find
a compromise closer than the 1500 miles that now seperates us
but without the Cities hubbub!

[pengillian101]

13. Hey, we moved to Itasca County 15 tears ago, too.

Howdy, neighbor!

We just have a shade over 20 acres, but love it here. My user name comes from a nearby town

[Jenoch]

15. I know where you're at.

We're just a few miles south in the Swan River/Warba area. When we bought the place it was just a tarpaper shack in the woods. This is recreational/hunting land. We don't have electricity or running water. Our fulltime home is in the Twin Cities. (Although I grew up in a small farming town in southern Minnesota.)

Edit: One of the original builders of our cabin is Tom Anzelc - DFL MN House 5B.

[pengillian101]

18. Hey! We are neighbors for sure.

Want to meet at Mr Roberts sometime? That would be fun!

[Jenoch]

24. That sounds interesting....

I don't know when we'll be up there next however (I live in Ramsay County). I might not get in any grouse hunting this year unless I take vacation days. We have a college football player in the family, so weekends are out September until November.

[pengillian101]

26. Will hope to meet you soon.

Let me know the next time you're here and we can get together. We are retired, so we're around most of the time.

[flvegan]

5. Yo Henry T, you can't front on that!

Nice new neighborhood. Forgive the Beastie invocation. I can't help myself sometimes. They're from NYC, but I can't hold it against them.

[Little Star]

6. Love your new neighborhood. My kinda place. Enjoy!

[pipi_k]

9. So are you

out by my area (the Berkshires) by any chance?

Congratulations on being able to get away from the rat race.

We don't go on vacation anymore. It's like being on vacation all year long.


My own road, from a few years ago

[In_The_Wind]

22. We are almost neighbors.

It's beautiful over there.

I drove over to Lee twice this week, shopping.

[Crewleader]

10. Smart Move William

I told your Mom, it's the Best News! Beautiful for All of You!

[Trailrider1951]

12. Ooooo, beautiful country lane

Reminds me of the year I spent in rural New Hampshire....Lucky you to be out of the city.

[femmocrat]

14. Beautiful!

It looks like you took the "road not taken"!

We live at the top of a road that looks much like that. It is fabulous in the fall!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. gratuitious shot of my drive way - just cos it seemed like the thing to do -

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

29. That looks like November...

...if it were this area. Reminds me of a line from a movie: "They look like November, not Autumn, not Winter, in between."

[applegrove]

17. Pretty.

[malthaussen]

19. Please keep us posted on your bean patch. n/t

[livetohike]

20. One of my all time favorite quotes. Your new neighborhood is beautiful and may you

make many happy memories there .

[sinkingfeeling]

21. Are you far from Boston?

[WilliamPitt]

23. About 75 miles

[ConcernedCanuk]

25. "by deliberate design" - me too . . .

.
.
.

Was poor for decades,

recent unexpected inheritance allowed me to buy 28 acres at the end of a dead road,

mostly surrounded by Crown land.

View out my front window one morning, watching Gopher enjoying the clover in my yard.



So I absolutely get it . . .

Good choice!



CC

[handmade34]

27. and...

...this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. (Shakespeare)

so nice...

[struggle4progress]

28. I remember visiting Walden on a cold Fall afternoon about 40 years ago

There was a rope on a tree overhanging the pond which we, like idiots, used to swing over the pond. Somebody predictably fell in so I had to lend my dry coat. Did I mention it was a cold afternoon

[Raven]

30. I will arise and go now...

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, and a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean roads will I have there, and a hive for the honey bee, and live alone in the bee loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, dropping from the veils of the morning
to where the cricket sings; there midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, and evening full of linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always day and night I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats