Robert Earl:
CLASS OF 1971
John Glenn High SchoolClass of 1971
Westland, MI
Robert's Story
Somehow, my profile here was deleted it seems, so I am reworking it now.
After school, I did not go to college. I worked warehouse jobs before heading to the Canadian NWT for two years to work on pipeline and mineral extraction jobs as a truck driver & heavy equipment operator. Came back to a bad job market in 1976. In 1978 I met my wife, also from John Glenn (1978) and we married in '79. We moved to Houston, TX where I was successful in automobile sales for nearly 20 years, on and off.
We moved to south Florida for a while, but we both love the outdoors and farm life as it turned out, so we moved to rural north Florida for a while, creating a poultry farm.....then back to Texas to establish an off-grid homestead in 2010, long before it became fashionable.
I taught sustainabl...Expand for more
e living to others as we build a 6000 square foot compound BY HAND, as well as a 30 site campground with cabins, all off-grid and sustainable. In time, the campground became well known and we were busy much of the season.
But Man Made Climate Disruption and old age caught up to us both. The 103 degree days & 70 degree nights in 2010, turned into 108 degree days and 90 degree nights by 2021. It became too much work..... but the real estate market soared, so we sold out and moved to the slow pace of the "Sunrise Coast of Michigan" and the fishing and outdoor activities we both missed!
We have a small acreage just outside Alpena, where we can do what we enjoy, freedom from debts and everything we want, far from big cities, but close to shopping and doctors for when we need them!
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