“These staples included two hundred pounds of flour, a hundred-pound burlap bag of pinto beans, fifty pounds of sugar, thirty pounds of cornmeal, fifty pounds of rice, twenty pounds of noodles, several gallons of cooking oil, honey, powdered milk, salt, pepper, spices, baking powder, yeast, tea, several cases of three-pound cans of coffee, and powdered creamer. “ We bought what we figured to be a year’s supply of dry goods,” Bonnie writes. The following passage is labeled a ‘Popular Highlight’ in the Kindle edition: If you are wondering what a grocery list would look like for such an adventure, you’re not alone.

Bonnie steps out of her comfort zone and learns how to shoot a. They deal with isolation and sub-freezing temperatures along with making new wildlife friends like a milk goat named Esther. Through Bonnie’s intimate excerpts, we learn how the couple, and their friend Bob who tags along, lived on Caribou Island in self-built cabins without running water, electricity or a phone.

It’s an engaging and inspiring story ripe for anyone who has merely dreamed of a new life or for those similarly courageous enough to take the leap to remote living. In her beautifully written memoir, Winds of Skilak: A Tale of True Grit, True Love and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness, Bonnie invites us into a routine that began in 1980 when she was 25 and Sam, 36. However, her deep love and admiration for her mate led her to check out library books on how to live in the wilderness and finally make the difficult decision to leave their home in Ohio for a tiny island on Skilak Lake on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. It wasn’t necessarily Bonnie Rose Ward’s dream, but her husband Sam’s to move to Alaska for a pure existence. In this day and age of omnipresent cell phones and electronics, is it not the quintessential dream to quit one’s day job to seek the peace and quiet of the last frontier and live off the land? Top Chanticleer Marketing Articles & How To Tips.Chanticleer SHORTLIST, SEMI-FINALIST, & Finalist Digital Badges.Book Genre & Category Descriptions of our Book Awards.Chanticleer Awards Deadlines and Announcement Projections.Chanticleer Non-Fiction Book Awards for Instruction & Insight.

Winds of Skilak by Bonnie Rose Ward