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last week really lit a fire underneath me.  then sxsweco said we had won a grant for a ticket (saving us $800) and so now i'm in full on 'enable us' mode to get us out to austin, texas to the very first sxsw eco conference in october.  we have a tight schedule for sponsoring so we have a lot of work to do in the next seven days to make this a reality.  we are doing an outreach to as many people as possible in the hope that people will help us make this happen.

i was in two minds about actually flying to an eco conference but after a reality check with a bunch of people the fact is once the ark is built chances are for a year i'll not be flying anywhere as i'll be committed to the project.  sxsw eco might be the last southby until after the project.  i'll be insanely jealous of people going in march but you know in the grand scheme of things this project is so much more than a week away at a conference.  it's huge.  it has massive potential.

i just hope people can see the potential of what the year in the heart of the national forest will bring from me and my daughter as we discover and encounter the many different nuances of the 'off the grid' life - after this i'm never going back to bricks and mortar.  this is it, the blueprint and starting point for my future life of living in a more sustainable way.  for once in my life i'm gonna be committed to something and discover a new side of me that needs to be kept alive by living not existing and in the process preparing my daughter for a different future world that she may live in her lifetime.

possibly when i'm not here.  this is a memory archive too, a year when we spent time together in the ark, a media archive to look back on and discover what daddy and daughter did and for me to prepare her with her own ark that she can live in or sell or just reflect on the time when she was. ..

. . off the grid, but in the clouds.