A Three-Hour Tour

[filkertom]

Every now and again, I mention my ultimate Lottery dream: buying an island somewhere, building up some infrastructure, and moving my family and a whole bunch -- three to five hundred -- of my friends there with me. Just getting us the hell away from everything.

It would never work, of course. There are too many technical problems, potential legal difficulties, and supply problems to overcome. Not to mention the existence of pirates, various naval forces with weapons tests, and the occasional tsunami.

Besides, Cthulhu's alarm clock might be about to go off.

This does not mean that I'm the only person to think like this. And now some ultra-rich doof is trying it. They're supposed to be little libertarian petri dishes, where a man can truly be free.

Good luck with that.

I figure that, in a few years, these little Time-Share 2020s will have been picked clean and abandoned, and maybe then we can go out there and rehab 'em.

Meantime, I'm saving up toward a missile silo.

What's your ultimate personal fortress? How detached from civilization do you wish to be? In my case, not much at all, thank you -- but I do want a nice, tornado-and-nuke-proof haven. (Seanan, don't you even think about all the ways you could mess me up with virii. I don't get enough sleep as it is.)

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I just want my own private hotel/lodge on a big chunk of land in Northern Michigan with a square-mile grassy rocket-flying field, a solid mile light-pollution buffer, carefully placed telescope pads power and couple observatory domes, one with a long 12-inch refractor, and one with a big light-bucket reflector. Yeah, and a few nice outdoor firepits for campfires. Inside, Enough bedrooms rooms for a filk convention and for NARAM, and for a big star party, several octagonal filk rooms, including one with a dome and a planetarium projector that can be concealed under the floor, as well as a well-equipped shop for the modelers and telescope makers. Oh, and my own private train shuttle to the nearest airport for use by guests.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Can I come visit sometimes?

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Peter, build your own airport onsite. A nice rolled greenbelt all the way across the site (or if your prevailing winds are other than cardinal, 5000' is sufficient), we can set sunken lights to border it that only shine towards incoming aircraft, and have them pilot (radio) controlled so they're only on when need be... GPS will help us find it in bad weather... and instead of a locomotive and rolling stock, a couple small to medium sized aircraft, probably of the de Havilland marque (since those handle small strips - and skis - well... would be easy to get to their choice of Green Bay, Milwaukee, Detroit, or in a pinch Midway...

Just dreamin'. :)

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

There's actually a property like that up for sale, government surplus, for like $1.3M but it's in upstate New York.
It also comes with a spacious underground bunker complex.

with one enormous chair/oh, wouldn't it be loverly?

[violinsontv.livejournal.com]

(Sorry--couldn't stop myself....;)