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04-18-05
Gregory
There is no greater feeling of complete freedom then when living within one
of natures many beautiful remote gardens. Whether it is a mountain garden, or a foot hill's garden, or a prairie's, desert's or seashore's. There is a feeling when living there amid it all of belonging to the Earth. It becomes a very personal relationship. It is being a part of it as it lives and breathes just as we do. We become one with nature. Dave Clingman who I have come to know as a treasured friend, has found such an Eden there on the property where he lives in Coarsegold. There is a
million dollar view from each of his windows. He respects the land and tends to it carefully in thought and action. My life is fuller today just by knowing Dave, and sharing his love for the beautiful area that he is so blessed to live in.
Record 256
03-31-05
Ron
My wife found your site because I grew up in Raymond and enjoyed many parades even the first one. Also I noticed you know the Swallows I went to school with the oldest I think his name is Jay and is a really good
guy. I last saw him at the rodeo about six or seven years ago and I think he was working on the railroad. I like your site and I have to go now. Tell Jay Ron from Raymond said hello.
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02-28-05
Candi
Dave, Good day! My name is Candi. I was searching the web for information on how to fix a problem I'm having with my home & came across your website. Actually, I've been informed by the water company that I have a MAJOR leak "somewhere from your house to the
road" (a mere 1 acre mind you:-)) & I can't afford a plumber so I thought I'd find some info on the net & pleasantly for me, I found this site...because you have listed your problems with water leaks...hence, here we are.
I have to tell you, I wish there were more to see on your site. I know it is difficult to maintain & add, etc. but your site is so interesting & wonderful. I loved being taken away from reality even if for a few moments. Keep
it up please.
I would like to know how you came to live in the bus please. I feel that we are kindred in some ways...I was especially thrown back & in awe that someone in the world besides me finds trees amazing & interesting. The fact that you took the time & the photos & posted them of the strange/different tree shapes in Ansel Adams Wilderness was incredible to me. I am forever pointing out to my family, friends & strangers, this tree or that
one. When I see one oddly shaped I tell them, "see, even nature has it's "weirdoes", as I'm so lovingly referred to.
Peace
Candi
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02-05-05
Theresa
Hi Dave,
This is Theresa...I very much enjoyed your website. I just want to thank you for working on my computer, it works faster now, to my surprise. Thank you for the phone call also, you surprised me!
If you are ever in my area please give me a call, perhaps we can have a cup of hot chocolate.
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01-29-05
Nick
Dave I will have to say I really enjoyed your home page. Thanks
Record 252
10-24-04
Martin
Hi Dave,
A quick hello from the UK after quite an absence. I hope you are well. I do from time to time have a look at your website to see what you have been up to. The backpacking trip looks like it was lots of fun, goodness
me it is so beautiful where you are.
Anyhow Dave hope you are doing well.
best wishes from over here.
Record 251
10-23-04
Tom
Wow, Dave, what a life you're having!
We just moved here three weeks ago. The 'we' is my wife and I and our 4
children, ages 2-13. A friend has been inviting us up here for 10 years and we never took him up on it. Our first morning waking up in his house in YLP last May brought this amazing feeling. I felt exactly the way I did
when I was 8 waking up on the first day of Summer and realizing I could go where ever I wanted.
I've never been terribly curious about my surroundings (L.A. & Orange County for the last 20 years) but living here makes me want to know the names of things, trees and constellations and mountains and such. I've been roaming the web and four your site. Do you know any books or web sites or clubs that could help me learn more about this wonderful place? I keep thinking some nameless
'authorities' are going to show up on my doorstep and try to take me back to Huntington Beach. Silly I know, but it's hard to believe we really get to live here.
Thanks for putting together a beautiful web site, you're quite good with that camera!
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10-07-04
Tony, Geocacher and owner of the "Center of California" cache!
Just wanted to read up on the other person that had a cache in Northfork. We (my wife, Kathy and I ) think North Fork is a
great little place.
We're coming over this weekend to winterize our cache. We were going to stop in Coarsegold and pic up a couple of caches but do to time constraints, (Kathy wants to hit the Chocolate Festival in Oakhurst ) we won't be able to. We'll be back to check on the cache in the future and will make our way over there.
Just wanted to say, Hi!
Take care!
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8-17-04
Patti
Ran across your site today, Dave. Some relatives are moving to your
area from down here in Huntington Beach and I thought I would cyber look around. Never got past your site it was so interesting and fun.
Thanks for sharing.
http://www.wildwestcollectibles.com
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8-3-04
Brian
Hello-
Loved your photos of Norris/Jackass lakes. My 11 year old son Gabe and my friend Lori and her 2 kids will be going in there on 8/8/04. Is there a good place to camp overnite near the trailhead? What elevation is the
trailhead and how long a hike to lower Jackass Lake? How far a drive is the trailhead from Bass Lake? How hard a cross country hike is it to Lady Lake from Lower jackass Lake? We can't wait to see Mt. Ritter and the Minarets. My friend Jessica has a house in Mariposa - we love to come up in the winter too. Thanks for any and all assistance.
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7-26-04
Judy
Hi Dave,
Really enjoyed your web site! It was a lot of fun seeing
all your pictures, and I love your friend Tawny. My husband & I are thinking of semi-retiring and moving to Coarsegold. Seems like a really nice place to live from what I've been able to research so far. (We took a trip to Yosemite a couple months ago and did our grocery shopping in Coarsegold.) Since then, I've been to every web site I can to get info on the area. We are Southern California natives, and it is just getting so busy here. I'm tired of the
traffic and keeping up with the Jonses. (ha ha) Would love to have a much quieter lifestyle like you have, although a couple of acres is plenty for us! We live in Valley Center in San Diego County, and it is, or was the rural area ( I guess it is still considered rural, but not for too much longer as developers are buying everything up and building) There just isn't anything in southern Calif that is still quiet enough. Anyway, thank you for sharing your life in
coarsegold with everyone. Maybe we will meet someday, will let you know if we decide to buy a home there. Take care and enjoy each day!
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7-05-04
Lupe
Hi dave I appreciate your website is very nice.
Thank you for sharing to us part of your life.
Enjoy life.
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7-04-04
Chris
I've been checking out your website. It's really nice. Lots of stuff to see. I really love the little chicks!!
I
haven't been up in the mountains in a long time. I went to camp at Hume Lake once. I usually went to Calvin Crest. You really do live in a bus!! Excellent.
Record 244
5-11-04
Chubs
Dear dave
I truly love to visit your web site when ever i need to meditate. I went to the red forrests for the first time in april 2004 in arketa california it was so surereal i truly can understand why people would leave everything behind and
live there i was so at peace with my self and i was so truly happy i was so sad to have to come back home to longview wash were i am facing and dealin with a divorce I would love to learn more about the area and any if all the history on the red forrest. everyone said that the souls of the trees are magical and that i am accepted and will now be protected i belive in spirits and such but i also need to be abel to read something on the belifes and such
Record 243
3-30-04
Roger
Hi Dave, I have a small business vending prepaid phone cards. At the present time I am looking for a new card distributing company. The internet is not user friendly when you are a novice at it.
all I can find are internet calling card plans. If you saved any information from your phone card vending days I would be most appreciative in receiving any distributors names and phone numbers. I am from Wisconsin and am willing to deal with
any U.S. reliable company.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
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3-24-04
Ani
Hi, I checked your web page and I have a question I would like for you to answer, please. What type of posts do you use for the corral? Is the wood treated? I have been told to use untreated wood, but wouldn't that rot? I live in Florida and we get a lot of rain. If the horse nibbles at the untreated wood, would he get sick? Please reply as soon as possible, I need to build the
corral next week. My horse arrives in 10 days. Thanks Ani
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2-25-04
Sarah
Thanks for that Statue of Liberty sunrise shot...it's great! I sent it to my SoL friend in Florida to wake him up.
Sarah in Texas
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2-1-04
Gregory
Dave~~~ As a lover of rural living and a man who is at his best out among the tress and hills and land, I am totally in love with where you are living. I found it SO refreshing to see all the many shapes
of trees and the vast sky with billowy clouds above, and the furry high hills strong and sturdy and you smiling there like the big yellow Sun.
I live in a mobile unit (trailer) much like your living space. I never thought I would be living in a trailer this long either. But your bus has much more of a flair of uniqueness than my long trailer lol. My place is out along the river outside of Stockton California. It is rural here with Mt. Diablo looming on the horizon to the West. Actually I
have lived in the old country areas of Wisconsin which look very much like where you live. I was never happier living there under the stars at night and not having any neighbors for as far as I could see. A person really does become part of the land and nature when living with it all so closely. Although where I live now has it's beauty it's hardly comparable to the green rolling coulees of Wisconsin that nestle beside the beautiful Mississippi River.
It is ALWAYS a real treat to just
happen upon a site like yours and see someone like yourself who is filled with such a zest for life. The animals that surround you there also are delightful and are such an added attraction to a natural cozy setting like you have . It is clear that a great quality of life has been found for you at the ranch. All of your pictures are gorgeous and crisp and clear. I am totally envious of your living situation. It's one that I had in a similar way at one time. Just waking up to the those
fabulous sounds of nature every morning truly makes you feel so glad to be alive. And feel so privileged to be where you are. I could live like that where you are forever and ever.
It is my pleasure to have visited your Eden and I will come back again and again to see what's new and to just revisit. Thanks for having a site like you have. As I have said, it is a refreshing situation for me. Take care of yourself and those cute critters too. Bye~~
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1-27-04
Mark
Dave, I live in the Sierra Foothills (Penn Valley), seven acres, two dogs, a cat, and a bunch of rocks. I live alone and spend my time reading, writing, playing tennis, restoring an old pick-up, and hanging out with friends.
My number one "thing" is authenticity. I want it for myself and I want it in the people I spend time with. Being real I find is the key to being happy.
Record 238
1-21-04
Keith
Hey Dave,
Was just surfing homepages,
then felt I really should sign the guestbook...and I agree with you completely 'Honesty is not something you should flirt with-you should be married to it. Thanks for restoring my faith dude!!!
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1-4-04
Andrew
From the photos I saw, it reminded what beautiful country it is. I was out West years ago when I was a young sailor. I fell in love with the area but ended up back in Alabama (old farm boy turned exec). All the best to you. I'll stop by from time to
time to see what's new.
Andrew (OldSailor)
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1-3-04
Paul
I'm signing your guest book via this e-mail. Great Site!! Thanks, I'll visit again! Paul
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11-18-03
Bruce
Hi Dave!.........was breezin' through your website on this sunny, windy afternoon in November. I admire your lifestyle....i sort of live off the grid in a ramshackle place near the coast by Monterey. I lived up in the foothills above Columbia for seven years.....my kids
live in Jackson.......so I have a real love of them hills! Best to you man....
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11-08-03
Marc
hey bro...
i live in oakhurst... super close to beashore... which is freakin awesome. Anywho, i've been having some tough times resently and seeing the pictures of ur trip made me think of all the fun i've had out there. well i g2g, tomorrow i think i'm gonna be paddling... just wanted to say thanks
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10-27-03
Laura
I am a 44 year
old woman and I have had the idea to buy myself a bus and live in it. My friends think I have lost my mind, but I will be graduating from college soon and I have worked full time through all the years I have been going after my degree. I have found that in this world your strengths lie in the things you can do without and I have indeed done without many things through the years. I am so tickled to find your website. I have this vision of myself living in my bus on the Texas
coast, teaching during the school year and long boarding and fishing all summer long. My daughters are grown and have left home long ago so I don't have a lot to lose. I am not much in the line of carpentry, but heavens It seems I could possibly rought it out myself and remodel as my pay permits. It sure beats rent and I don't ever want to be tied to a piece of property again. I think you are terrific for living the way you want to. Life is far too short to spend
it making money for a house that you spend so much stress trying to pay for, and never really getting to live. All my best to you. What an incredibly unique man you are. What an exciting adventure your life has been. This is what I want in my life, adventure, friends, memories, love, not things. I am so inspired.
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10-10-03
Mike in Big Pine
Hey Dave! Just wanted to send this note. I also live in the Sierra Nevadas south of
Bishop in a small town named Big Pine. I live at the foot of the mountains and can take a 10 min. drive and be up at the trailhead at 7,700ft. It's pretty nice so I can relate to your love of where you live.
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09-28-03
Mark (again)
Your website is so appealing because I can live vicariously through it. I grew up around family members' farms and working ranches in Southeast Texas. The saying 'you can take the boy out of the country but you can't
take the country out of the boy' is very true. That may be misleading because although I was present, I did not actually take part in harvesting crops, spraying cattle, etc. I have lived in large cities my entire adult life but a part of me really longs to live as you do, even part-time.
You seem to have a really nice existence and your friends seem like real people. I just looked at your website again and I would have to say the pictures with the brief but succinct
narratives MAKE your website. My favorite part? The ride with your friend Teri. Looks FUN.
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09-24-03
Mark
Nice website! If only for a moment, I lived vicariously while reading about you and how you live.
Best of luck.
Mark, Houston, Texas
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09-08-03
Steve
Hi. You have a very nice web site. I like the pictures of KC and the chicks. I was surprised that a cat would act like that.
Record 228
09-06-03
Pat
Glad you and the bus are doing well, your story brought to mind the lines from a poem. Something about "there aint many troubles a man cant fix with several hundred dollar's and a 30-06." You be safe Dave.
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09-05-03
G
NICE SITE. So just how did you come to be living in a bus in paradise ?
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08-10-03
Roger
Hello Dave,
Found your site and what a delight.
I left
Southern CA to opt for N. Ca as it is much more honest and closer to my New England roots, values, etc. Also sold my home and bought a 33ft Avco RV that has had it's problems since the engine rebuild, but am tackling that at every free moment. Also live on a small ranch, smaller than the one you are on........and will look for someplace that I can buy and build a nice log cabin or whatever.
I love your site and how you represent yourself and honor your friends and
surroundings. Your Soul really comes through.......that's the reality. How great to share your life and what's important to you. It was my pleasure! Thanks, Roger
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07-17-03
Kristine
Hello, I was looking for some info on Coarsegold and your site popped up. The pictures are beautiful!! I will have to take a drive up and look around sometime. So I am curious about how you ended up in a bus.
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07-01-03
Gary
Hello Dave, I enjoyed your homepage.
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07-01-03
Susan
I found your site while searching the internet yet again for Tennessee Walkers. You have done an enchanting job; it was a pleasure being your guest. We are looking for a reg. TWH mare or gelding for my 10 yr. old daughter. Actually, we have been looking for quite a awhile. Wondered if your friend Terry might have any leads? Glad to see someone else enjoys
life here as much as we do.
Best wishes,
Susan
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06-30-03
Dave
Just wanted you to know I really enjoyed your site. I live here in the Black Hills of SD, and am going west soon on a vacation, the High Sierras. I have traveled a lot, climbed Mt. Whitney twice and hiked back of Yosemite a lot. Grew up in S. CA. Spent 11 years in the USFS as a wildland firefighter and trails engineer, now work with youth in trouble. Beautiful area of your
pics. One of my favorite areas is Lone Pine and of course Death Valley. Well, just thought I would say hi, thanks for your great site. Dave.
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06-29-03
Pete
Dave, My compliments on your site. I lived in Fresno for about 8 months last year looking for a job after being laid off from a dot.com in San Francisco. Familiar story I guess. Not much luck, so I moved back up to Sacramento in May, this is my home town, and my family's
here. But I wish I had come across your site while I was in Fresno, I had plenty of time to visit the high country that I was so close to. I visited the giant Sequoiadendrons many times in snow and sun. That's my idea of a spiritual retreat. I found the Sierra Endangered Cat Haven on one visit. Also followed 168 to Huntington Lake and had lunch at the Lakeside hotel built in 1921. I'm amazed at the huge expanse of high sierra country between Fresno and the
Owens Valley with hardly a road or trail to cross it. Do you know of anyone who does high country horse backpacking?
Pete
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06-21-03
Greg
Not sure why I pulled up your site, but enjoyed it. The pics in "beautiful-strange" are of areas I used to ride in.
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06-05-03
Dan
Do you really live in a bus?
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05-30-03
Aurr
Hello, Can you help with directions (and the Name) to the trailhead
that leads to Jackass Lake? I went with a class about two years ago and I want to go back, but I can't remember how to get there...I can only remember that we drove by Bass Lake...
Thanks for your time
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05-23-03
Kyle
I must commend you,I have allways dreamed of having just a part of what you have,I for some reason stumbled on this web site and I was amazed at what kinnda site it was,so I started looking in the pages,I myself am having a somewhat mid life
crises and I was serously thinking about taking off at the end of the summer and finding myself somewhere else besides here. I am tired of this rat race.
Record 218
04-07-03
Dora
Hello Dave I'm Dora I'm 15 years old I thought you would like to know I love your pictures and that they have help me get and A on several of my school assignments. Keep up the good work!
Record 217
03-16-03
Robert
I used to live in Fresno, have been up to Shaver Lake,
Courtright, and Kings Canyon. I just moved back to Charleston, SC to help my parents and to come home. Yep, I love my grits and love okra and shrimp, especially the ones that I have caught in the past. It is good to see someone who loves the Sierras, and that I do understand. You have my admiration and my appreciation for what you have up there. I hope the snow pack has picked up in these past few weeks, or there is going to be one mean drought this summer.
Take care of yourself.
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03-16-03
Brent
HI Dave.
I found your web site and have spent an hours snooping around. It's great!! I laughed at the picture of the snow, was that it for winter? I live in Maine and some winters we get our share of snow. This winter most of the storms have gone south of us so we didn't get much.
I just wanted to say Hi. Loved your site. I would like to hear the story of bus
life sometime. I worked construction two years and lived in a 14 foot Scotty camper with my Dachshund for those two years. I went home weekends or I never would have made it.
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03-09-03
Daniel
Hey bud,
Here's a pretty good article about Zzyzx Springs. There are others, but this one is pretty complete. By the way, Zzyzx is a "made up" word... though there are many companies that use it as a brand name (there is a dirt bike with this name,
for example).
Here's the site listing:
http://wordways.com/zzyzx.htm
Take care,
-Daniel
Oakhurst, CA
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02-26-03
Dave
Hey guy-
Great site- Just thought you might like to know when people appreciate your great work
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02-17-03
MysteryStore
Like what i saw
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02-06-03
David C
Dear Dave, Yes I am very interested in learning about how you came to live in a bus. Appears to me to be the peak
of resourcefulness, true? I have yet to cover your entire site but it most certainly peaks my interest! The outdoors! how can you beat it? My passion as a kid and stilling growing strong at 37.
Best wishes Dave
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02-01-03
Rich
Nice web site. From here in Reno and being a rural farmboy, I enjoy reading about people who find the sanity of rural life over city life.
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01-28-03
Joe
hey
dave, enjoyed your homepage. looks like your in some beautiful country out there! a perfect place for riding your horse. also, wishing you a early happy birthday man.
joe (from alabama in case you hadn't figured that out, lol)
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01-28-03
Brian
Just wanted to say I enjoyed your backpacking pics. I do alot myself. One of my dreams ever since I was 16 was to hike the PCT and hopefully I'll do it one of these years. Anyway,
nice website.
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01-22-03
Jason
Hi my name is Jason, I live in Portland OR I have friends in Arkata and came across your web sight. I thought I would drop you a line. I grew up in Iowa and have always wanted to live in the country,become self sufficient. I envy your lifestyle.
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01-21-03
George
Hey Dave: I stumbled across your website this afternoon while I'm seated at my computer hiding from -30 celsius
weather. Even though our winter sun is brilliant, it was great to read every aspect of your life in California, to see the many great photos and to get a glimpse into your great lifestyle. While I'm urban I'm sure my heart is rural; long for horses and wide open spaces so I shall return to your site again and again. Thanks. Geordie
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01-09-03
Steve W
Looks like you have a nice life. Beautiful landscapes. It reminds me of
the landscapes in "Big Valley". California is lovely state.
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01-03-03
Peter
Hi buddy, nice website. I'm a cowboy too in Canada. I love country music.
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01-01-03
Alex
Hi Dave, I visited your webpage and liked what I saw. Just wanted to say hi and that I admire that you live your life the way you want.
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12-31-02
Jon
hello Dave
I want to say Happy New Year! to you. I enjoy checking
back to your webpage and finding new pics.
Take Care.
Jon Green Bay WI
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12-23-02
Lisa
Hi. I was looking for the Hume Lake web site and stumbled onto your site. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Your pictures are great!
So.... why do you live in a bus? Sounds like an adventure!
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12-13-02
Ted
Hi, found you on the web page for Coarsegold, Ca. Looks like a great place for a get away...
Years ago when I first came to California, I settled in Fresno, was there for 5 years and remember Coarsegold as a sign on the road to Yosemite....That was back in the early 60's...I have not been there since...
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12-04-02
Sine
I have two school buses on land in rural NC. I was hoping to see a picture of your bus/home on your site! In one of ours we have a claw-foot bathtub, and friend cut the roof out of her bus and installed a sleeping loft. I'd love to see pix
of your bus!
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12-02-02
Devin
Hey bud, I liked your site. Im up here in the foothills near Sonora. Raised here and been here most my life. After spending several years in the South, I had to come home to my mountains. there is no place I like more then my Sierra's
Take care and I hope to hear from ya,
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12-01-02
Byron
Hi, Dave!
Man, I was just out surfing about - this is all pretty new to me - and I was going from
one site to another, getting all lost in all those links leading me from one thing to another and - whammo - there you were, Dave! I just want you to know that I "dropped by", that your website looks good, your story and lifestyle sing with joy and I really dig your "Honesty" quote.
Blessings to you, brother, from a new friend in Chico!
TTT
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11-29-02
Keith
This is nice, Dave
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10-23-02
Curtis
Dave, By chance I stumbled on to your Web site/ page. I am so glad to see that others have a sense of self actualization, and are happy being ones self, on there terms and not what the world tries to mold us to be.
I commend you.
When I got done viewing your web site I think I got a glipse of the person you are. You seem to be a warm caring and spititual man. I hope your dreams come true.
Have a safe and prosperous journey.
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10-14-02
Rainheart
Hello. I was checking out your web sight. Fasanateing!! Please tell more about what you do for a liveing, Although I am guessing you are a care taker of the land. Also, please tell more about the buss, I am verry into alternative homes. I have lived for 2 years in a small travel trailer.
Best wishes
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10-04-02
Keith
Congradulations on a terrific site, your ranch, and your "honesty" and intergrity is refreshing to find. best of luck to you always.
kindest regards,
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10-02-02
Dale
I am just starting in bulk vending, your straight talk was appreciated.
Thanks
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Derek
9-19-02
Hi Dave, I found your interesting webpages and wanted to let you know I enjoyed them. By the way, have you heard of non-dig gardening ? It saves a lot of hard work. You might like to check it out sometime.
Best wishes
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Frank
9-15-02
I was checking out your
web site. Loved it. You sound like a great guy. I love your outlook on life. And your feelings about honesty. I live near the California / Nevada border by Topaz Lake, in Nevada. About 35 miles south of Carson City. Anyway.. Just wanted to tell you I loved your site.
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LM
9-13-02
I liked your site. Of all the places you have lived which do you like best? I want to retire and bring my 10 year old
and our horses to Northern Calif (too liberal for a 10 year old) or Wash or Oregon. Have you ever lived on the coast?
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Eric
9-7-02
Enjoyed browsing your web site, and "meeting" you, Tawny, Lady, etc. First off, congrats on giving Lady a new home...hope you two share many good rides together! Sorry I couldn't help out with the tack and all...I know what'cha mean by a free horse being far from free...but it's been many years since I had to
give mine up.
Needless to say, I was intrigued to learn you live in a bus. Oddly, I had just read "Into the Wild," a book about Christopher McCandless, who had the guts to realize a dream of living in the Alaskan wilderness, ironically ending up in an abandoned bus near Denali Nat'l Park, where he perished in 1992. Anyway...it's been a long-time interest (and struggle) of mine to down-size into a 30-foot Airstream. Perhaps out of protest to all the "McMansions" that
continue to litter and cover our beautiful state like a cancer. A more rural existence beckons, and am considering moving up to the Gold Country.
Hope you and the critters are doing well! Thanks for taking the time to read this.
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Cathy
8-31-02
Hi, How far down do you dig to lay the bottom wire down? I never thought of this. Thanks
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Joe
8-27-02
I ran across your website when I was search for Coarsegold. My son who
is leaving the Marines ( 12 years ) is moving to Coarsegold. He and his wife have 5 children ( 4 girls ). I plan to visit them Dec 31 - Jan 4 (Cheap air fares ). So I was searching for a place to stay , etc and came across your site. So it seems that we should be able to find plenty to do. Seem like you like it out there. Thx.
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Glenn
8-23-02
hey dave,
i am a farmer and i dig what your about. i get awakened each morning by the screech of cockatoo's. or if i'm
lucky in the middle of the night by the call of the mopoke.
ain't country life grand?
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Robert
08-13-02
Good morning. It's a rainy morning here in mid-Missouri, a much needed drink, so instead of being out in the garden I thought I'd spend sometime on line. This is my first time visiting your site. Very nice place to visit, and for you, a beautiful place to live. I'm sure you revel in its glory. Enjoy your day and I'll visit again.
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07-30-02
David M
Great Website. I admire your commitment!
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07-28-02
Jeff
hey i stumbled on your trip report and wanted to say thanks for the pictures etc. i'm considering a trip to the ansel adams wilderness in sept and am looking to hike out to lillian lake, stopping by lady lake en route. if you have any ideas/suggestions about the hike let me know!
thanks again
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07-19-02
Dave B, in Nevada
Hi There,
It has been a while since I wrote you. Hope all has been going well in the bus in the woods.
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07-15-02
Bart
Just a big Hi from Utah. Love your pics of your horse, and your trips. Keep it up.
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06-20-02
Paul
I was absolutely enthralled with your pictures and stories; I felt like I spent the afternoon with you and was catching up on old times. Even the country that you live in
reminds me of the area that I have spent my early years, doing the same activities - riding, hiking and a few friends. Some of my youth was spent in Tehachapi, the surrounding mountains, the Mojave dessert, Sequoia and Mt Whitney - climbed that twice, once from each approach.
Are you living off the grid there or do you have commercial power? I lived off the grid and had built my own power system - that was wonderful, thought I would be there forever. I had 25 acres on the
Canadian border in the foothills of Mount Baker, NW Washington. Alas, someday I will do it again. For now, it's the city life.
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06-20-02
John G
I was just checking out your website...pretty cool stuff. How did you come to live in a bus? What is life in a bus like? I live in San Jose and am actually moving to San Francisco. Somehow, this is getting me closer to my dream of owning a ranch...at least that's what I keep telling
myself. Anyway, just wanted to let you know that your website is appreciated.
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06-19-02
Joseph
How did you come to live in your bus?
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5-26-02
Keith
DAVE, i really enjoyed ur site, it is well done and very imformative. did u do this on ur own or have someone do it for u.. me i havent put one together yet as im new to
the concept of setting up a site, even though i work woth comupters all day....
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5-24-02
Bob
Hi Dave: I came across your pages about 4 years ago, when I had a WEBTV and you had your phone card business then! Now, here I find you again and it is so great to learn what all has happened to you over these years; all good other than the terrible foot surgery you had to endure! Hope everything is coming along good for you and each day
brings you better walking,etc.,! So nice to meet some of your "family" too, which you didn't have way back when! Oh yes, I'm that old fart in Florida, who lives on an island and is water logged from either swimming or roller blading or driving a jet ski like a bat out of Hell and scaring everyone! Just wanted to say "HI"! Please keep your site up so i can check on you ever so often! Take care, Bob Stevens
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5-22-02
G.H.
Great site. Really
enjoyed the virtual tour and your interesting lifestyle. Lots of camping and hiking and nature is too cool.
take care.
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5-21-02
Walter
you have a very nice home page and i love the honest of it and the pictures of the ranch and of you and your animals. i just want to wish you the best in your future and just want to say howdy .
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5-20-02
JD
You're ranch looks like the place they filmed bonanza! It's beautiful!
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5-16-02
Derry
Hi Dave, This is my very first e-mail to a cowboy (imaginary, I suppose) so hope you will understand my letter. I live in San Francisco and am a retired librarian and Latin American historian. I think your website is very interseting. I love the western lifestyle and would love to live in a rural setting like you do.
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4-29-02
Kellum
Just wanted to say thanks for your
webpage. I really admire you for living the way you want to. I'm a city boy now, I guess, but my heart still yearns for country life. Anyway, it was great to see your beautiful pics. Take care.
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4-27-02
Bruce
Howdy Dave,
After following your various links here and there I thought I'd zap you a note. I too am an outdoor nut and like you do not care for competitive sports. My favorite activity is backpacking. My love of
the mountains of Oregon has led me to work with the US Forest Service for a total of about twelve seasons.
Be well,
Bruce
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4-11-02
Lee
Loved Your Site. I found your story to be very interesting. I thought I was the only one in the world that does the same things you do.
Write be back and tell me the rest of the story.
Warm Thoughts Rain
LEE, FLA. USA
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4-5-02
Jerry
Dave, I saw your website, it looks like you enjoy maintaining it alot!
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Ted
3-29-2002
Hi. enjoyed viewing your website. so how did you end up living in a n old school bus. Just curious because I drive a school bus for a living. Very Cool Website. Nice photos.
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Ken
3-26-2002
What a nice site! I live in Maryland, out in the country on a once thriving farm. I just have dogs now. Not allot of time to do farm
work. Anyway I came across your site and was curious as to your living in a bus. How did that happen. I also enjoyed your pictures especially the one's of the neat trees and the sunsets. We don't see to many sunsets here in Maryland because of all of the trees. If you live on a hill maybe. I love the outdoors and was taken back by your photos.
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Bob
3-25-2002
Saw your page. Looks like you have a great existance. Best of luck from UncleBob.
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David
3-23-2002
Hi Dave, I was looking for information on Coarsegold and found your website. I've enjoyed reading and looking at the pictures. It looks beautiful there. I especially enjoyed hearing about Tawny and KC. I'm an animal lover myself. Me and my girlfriend Kaaren are planning a weekend at a local Bed and Breakfast house in Coarsegold in early April. We are wondering if you can lend some advice about good hikes in the surrounding
areas. We're not very familiar with the area even though we only live in Clovis.
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Brad
3-2-02
Hello Dave,
I'm impressed that you live in a bus. I also have a homesteading mentality, acquired from twelve years of Alaska. I still have a cabin there (no running water or electricity) and some property on a remote island (16 acres) where I spend summers. This winter I've spent in graduate school at St. John's in Santa Fe. Santa Fe is
tolerable, but I'm missing my adopted Alaskan family. In mid-May I'm going back to build a cabin on the island, and I'll be back in Santa Fe in mid-August.
Brad
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Randy
2-22-02
Hey Dave! Really enjoyed your site. I live in Las vegas and those foot hills are sure looking good to me also. ha Just wanted to say hello and tell you that I really enjoyed your web page.
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Martin
2-22-02
Hi Dave really enjoyed your site!
best wishes in all you do
Martin
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Bill
2-18-02
Just a Texas Cowboy stopping by to say hi. I live in the Panhandle of Texas outside of Amarillo. IM sure you see the same stars I do at night esp. in the summer. People need to be more like you. I do not know you but seeing your sight and reading your interest tell a lot about your heart and soul. It is neat to know that there are still people out there in this world that sees simplicity not complication,
honesty not doubt or fear, nature not hurt or sadness. some of these words do not belong together if you notice but do they really have to?
Have a good day friend.
Bill
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Rob
12-6-01
I stopped by and checked out your web site the other day and emailed you but did not sign your guest book... <G> I live up in Humboldt county. Born and raised there. I presently own four acres in the middle of the redwoods...with a stream going through it. A
bit different than living in the mountains.
Enjoyed your web site.... went through a lot of the same stuff.... like burying the wire under the garden.... afraid mine was'nt all that successful. Ended up getting gohpher traps.
Rob
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Dave
12-4-01
Hi Dave, I found your website while surfing the net. Great pictures, it must be nice out there in nature. You seem very happy. Best of luck to you and have a great holiday.......Dave
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Erick
11-14-01
I thought my life was different, but I have to admit I was intrigued by yours! OK... you invited us to ask how you came to live in a bus... so I'm asking. :) How did you come to live in a bus?
I'm attaching a picture of my dog, Tawny. She is an Anatolian Shepherd Guardian Dog and died 4 years ago giving birth. I kept the only two living pups from that litter.
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Keith
11-11-01
I came across your site the
other day and I think I've visited every page. You seem like a kindred spirit and I thought I should write. Actually I remember visiting it last year and intending to write but I don't think I did -- if this is a repeat, please forgive me.
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Randall
9-28-01
I've been a new york city-boy for a long time now, and for the last couple of years I've been wrapping my mind around the idea of moving to the country- I know- its an old story-
but every time I'm out in nature I calm right down and think-ok this is who I am.
For the past couple of years I've been complaining about how crazy people are here, and then the World Trade Center went down. I volunteered to do clean up/search and rescue, but we ended up standing around because they were afraid another building was going to collapse.
In the following days, the people were at first very caring and much more "real." An event like
that puts things into perspective. But now most of them are back to being nuts. And its driving me nuts.
So I've been thinking about moving back to California and getting back to my hippie "roots."
I keep telling people here that I want to put a trailer on some land and over the next however many years build a house. They're dumbfounded. So it was great to find out how you're living in a bus and that you didn't have to do it by having to be a
landowner yourself.
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J.C.A.
9-19-01
Just had to say (real great webpage). I lived on a bus for a while during our travels around the Country When we went from one of our ranches to another. I just had to say the pics of your place look real nice and all - I'm down here in Southern California for about a year and then I'm out of California thank-god (LOL) aint my place to be.
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Bruce
5-23-2001
hi
Just dropped by to say hello.
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Cindy
5-18-2001
hello dave,
i was just looking in ur webpage again to see what was new since the last time i saw it... u have added quite a few since then... saw picture of buchert gardens before ur surgery!!!! yes, i loooooovvve that place, sooooo beautiful and breathtaking, i could just sleep under the tree under full moon, so peaceful!!!
wow, about ur surgery!!!! i hope i never experienced what u went thru!!! i can imiage its equal to woman giving
birth....aarrrghhhh!!!! no thanks!!!! but am glad its over!!!! hope u are feeling much better and can walk much better than ever!!! any more hiking trips for ya ths summer with ur new ankle????
congrats on ur new love!!! what a cutie doggie u have and its nice to have someone to keep u company just like my kitty cat even tho i have been neglecting her badly lately!!!!! ratttss!!
cool picture of you in magazine! what a magazine star u are!!!!
oh, that was a beautiful pix of the
snow back in feb... wish we had some here... ratss!!! i know if fresno had one inch, they will close everything even FCC!!!! 8-) whoppeee!!!!
well, thanks for sharing everything on ur pooter... keep it up and i ll be back to check for anything new in a few mons!!!! smile.... have a good night!! was in workshop all day today at FSU and again tmw for half the day!!!! whew... then sunday, jen, joelene and i ll be giving our friend a baby shower.... then workshop all next week from
9 to 5pm M-F!!! whew.... busssy... now u see why i have been neglecting my poor kitty cat!! hopefully, after may 28th, will settle down a bit before i take off for east!!!
nitey nite!!!!
cindy 8-)
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Mike F.
5-18-2001
dave... i found your site to be a very well crafted web site... i enjoyed it... i'm thinking of buying 10 or 20 acres in the sierra foothills... i might profit from your experience... i would welcome hearing from you if you have the
inclination.... mike
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