Seldovia, Alaska – On a trip to the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico during spring break, Bretwood Higman and Erin McKittrick found themselves on a beach, holding a battered tourist map. Sick of the collegiate shenanigans around them, Mr. Higman suggested they ditch the bars, take the map and walk the 30 miles of shoreline to the next town. “The beach is probably continuous, right?” Ms. McKittrick remembers him saying.
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To his surprise, Ms. McKittrick, whom he had met while they were studying at Carleton College outside of Minneapolis, was game. “That was a defining moment,” said Mr. Higman, now 33; he knew Ms. McKittrick was the one.
Today, their lives unfold under the conical eaves of a Mongolian yurt, where they have lived since November 2008, high on a spruce-covered mountainside of the Kenai Peninsula in the coastal town of Seldovia (population of around 250), where Mr. Higman grew up.
The remote town has no access to other parts of the state by road. Residents have to travel by boat or airplane. A recent passenger on Homer Air, the local airline, was a poodle on its way to the vet.
Cute.. but big deal… I know thousands of families who risk their lives to live like this to protect eretz yisrael and am yisrael.
this town is so beautiful and simple, i wish i could bring a few frum families there, and settle there, free from all the hectic life here in lakewood
At least the property is affordable!!
don’t understand half the story. where r they now? what’s a mongolian yurt? where is kenai peninsula?…
i think this is awesome
Living on $12,000 a year? This could solve the problem of housing for our heimishe yungeleit!
A beautiful life, but no doctors, no shochet, no mohel, no mikveh, no cholov yisroel dairy, no shul, no sefer Torah, no kedusha.