![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For him, every morning is a wonder and every storm a blood-coursing thrill.īut while Daniel loves this permanent boy's life, his wife longs for the life they left behind, and his spirited stepson is feeling isolated. He generates electricity from solar power and a terrifying windmill, funnels rainwater for their showers, creates a toilet seat out of a whale vertebra, strings their bed up on pulleys so that by day it can be lifted out of the way. And Daniel Hays, as readers of My Old Man and the Sea will remember, is well equipped to do both. This is the story of fulfilling a to live by your own rules and your own wits. So he took his love for the sea and his need to escape civilization and pushed it he bought an island off the coast of Nova Scotia built a tiny house packed up his wife and stepson, two dogs, and three boatloads of supplies and moved there. He went back to school, bought a house, took a job, got married.īut as it turned out, in the real world Daniel Hays felt lost. Profound.” - SFGATEĪfter Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest. Hays is a superb comic writer, an irrepressible jokester who turns this epic camping trip into a cracked, sitcom Walden. ![]() “Here is the soul of an adventurer laid bare. ![]()
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