I hiked into the bus [1], and eventually spent 4 years living in the Yukon. I've ventured all over Yukon and Alaska, and met some very, very interesting people.

I hiked into the bus [1], and eventually spent 4 years living in the Yukon. I've ventured all over Yukon and Alaska, and met some very, very interesting people. There are absolutely people living in the middle of absolutely nowhere, doing as they please. Growing their own food, hunting their own meat. Summers have incredibly long days and an abundance of food, winters are cold, dark and long. Plenty of people work something like a month or two a year to pay for basics they want to have. I once met a family that built their own "log cabin house" in Telegraph Creek, Canada (Pretty remote little town). They worked their land, had a few kids and kept to themselves. The mother went to work for 8 weeks that year as a camp cook in a mine, and she was quite annoyed - that was the most she had ever had to "work" in a year, and she was around 50. [1] theroadchoseme.com/the-magic-bus