September 15, 2024. An overcast day, four and a half months into living off-grid. Two years earlier, in 2022, I’d stopped my car ten meters from a fox standing on the garden path, watching me. Back then, it didn’t have the opportunities it has now. My daughter saw it first — a fox circling the…

The expectation turned out worse than the reality. The common wisdom around here is that off-grid life in Slovakia simply isn’t possible. That’s not true. What is keeping you away is every comfort you’ve built up around yourself. Off-grid life isn’t a loss of comfort. You’re just the one responsible for the comfort you build…