Welcome to the Normal to Nomad podcast, where we share stories, thoughts, ideas, and conversations on our journey to find balanced with nature in a technologically advanced world.

My name's Barron.

And I'm Elsa. We've lived five years on the road in our 13-foot scamp trailer, exploring the back country of the West with our dog camp.

Now, we dive into a new chapter as we build an off-grid home on our land in Colorado.

Greetings.

Should we cheers? Yes. Cheers.

Should we make it a thing? Cheers every episode?

I assume that we'll have coffee or something every episode, so that'll probably work.

We did get these cups specifically for this office.

That we did.

This podcast episode, we're going to be talking about the reality of owning off-grid raw land. It was a big-time dream of ours, and I have

noticed that it's a big-time dream of a lot of people to have raw land. Yeah. Because I think

the dreaminess is the freedom, the lack of overhead. What else? Is that? I mean, I I don't know it is super dreamy but the

realities of it I think they've been fun and interesting but there are things that

we're dealing with it it's not that I didn't necessarily anticipate them but

they don't I don't know they're not obvious or they're not necessarily part of what you dream about.

I kind of thought we'd be able to do anything once we got raw land.

And we can do as close to anything here as you can anywhere, and that was part of why we chose this land.

Yes.

But in a lot of places, even if you own the land, you're very limited in what you can do.

Which doesn't make any sense. Why? I don't know. Any chance you give people to make rules,

they will make rules. I suppose so. I think a lot of it is to keep land values up and, I don't know, just be arbiters of worthless rules.

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