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Life After the Oil Crash
Deal With Reality or Reality Will Deal With You
Editor's Note: Some Photos from my Trip, Acupressure Program, Possible LATOC Survival Conference/Backpacking Trip
Pics from the trip I took two weeks ago have been posted to Photobucket, for anybody who cares. Ones with me in them are here, here, here, and here. Some great nature shots are here, here, here and here.
Those of you who emailed me about the acupressure and holistic medicine program I'm in, I've archived the program information here.
Also, as some of you no doubt know, ASPO-USA is having it's annual Peak Oil blowout. I'm not a big fan of Peak Oil conferences myself as to me they seem almost oxymoronic. (I suppose a Peak Oil website falls into the same category as flying to conferences given the massive energy and infrastructure sink that is the internet.) But people keep emailing me to say I should sponsor some type of LATOC conference. I thought the idea ridiculous until it occurred to me that instead of organizing a "conference", how about a 4-to-7 day survival type camping trip? Lots of hiking, good doses of hard labor, firemaking, map and compass work, cold-and-hot weather survival, edible plant identification, maybe some animal processing, etc. I'm not qualified (or anywhere near insured enough) to organize such an endeavor myself but I could almost certainly set something up through a company like Adventure Out, based out of Santa Cruz which is not terribly far from my home here in Santa Rosa. (See the recent SF Chronicle article on the company's surge in popularity following the 2008 econo-collapse.)
If this type of thing is of interest to you and you'd be willing to fork over $300-$500 (which is what these things usually cost), send me an email to let me know. I'd need at least 5 and probably something like 10-15 people to sign up when the time comes to make it work out dollars-and-sense wise. If I end up doing this, it would almost certainly be based in Northern California and it would be your responsibility to arrange your own transportation. -Matt
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