Catholics Living off the Grid in the Pacific Northwest

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Jamie G (Jaklande), you posted last fall about being a Montessori teacher and looking for other Catholic families who want to live off the grid in the Pacific Northwest. Catholic Answers Forum unfortunately closed your thread two weeks after the last post, and I just saw it. I would love to get in touch with you because my husband and I share this vision (specifically including Montessori) and have connections with others who are planning such a community in rural Western Washington. Please get in touch if you see this. Thank you!

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wouldn’t this be better accomplished in eastern washington ?
just asking; i live in NE US …

a different universe
 
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Eastern Washington is mostly desert: Not a very friendly place for living off the grid.
 
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Yeah it looks like a whole other planet on the east side of the Cascades. Like literally from the east side of the Cascades to the Idaho foothills of the Rockies at the border…it’s like you cross the border and you literally are on another planet. It’s so weird.

I wouldn’t say “desert” as much as I would say “prairie”. (Desert is going to make some picture Phoenix.)
 
More like rolling grassland.

Peppered with windmills and the occasional vineyard. It’s a very odd place. I’ve been in all but two of the mainland US states and it’s the oddest I’ve seen. It’s like you can’t describe it.

LOL I’m sure there’s someone on here from Spokane who will be offended. LOL but you leave Spokane and there’s…almost…nothing…until you get to the base of the Cascades. 😆😆😆
 
Coming across I 90 I saw more of this…

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And this…

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and this.

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I’ve only seen it from the highway; I’ve never been farther than that.

That bottom one (not my photo) seemed to go on forever. And it was eerie when you’d see all the windmills.
 
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These actually are my pics. The Montana and WA wildfires were at their zenith when we came across. So we couldn’t even see the Rockies in Montana for the smoke - and you can see it here in eastern WA as well.

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The smoke is really bad in this one.

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Most Easterners have no clue that the majority of WA does not look like it does on my side of the Cascades. The fact that mountain ranges have created two entirely different climate zones is amazing - and to just see it in such a relatively small space is incredible.

The first time I saw it, 24 years ago, I was shocked! 🤣🤣 It also drove home how big the Cascades really are (that and the fact that Snoqualmie required trucks to have chains, and it was the first part of June, LOL).
 
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Most Easterners have no clue that the majority of WA does not look like it does on my side of the Cascades.
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Most easterners also think that there are mountains east of the Mississippi :roll_eyes:🤔😁

I just about choked driving down I’80 and seeing the sign that it was the highest point on I-80 east of the mississippi . . . approximately the same height as I’m sitting in this valley today (ok, technically it’s an “anduvial plane” , not a valley).

Bumps. Bumps in the land they have out there.

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The cool thing about eastern Washington is that is was largely shaped by the colossal floods of glacial Lake Missoula. Having grown up in Missoula and seeing the ancient shorelines on the surrounding hillsides, driving through eastern Washington and down the Columbia River Gorge, the landscape takes on a whole new perspective.
 
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