Our story - life between London and the Yukon wilderness

Our cabin
Neil and Lou’s story

We live very remote, in a log cabin in the sub Arctic Yukon bush. We are off the road system, off the electricity grid (and off our heads). We came to the Yukon in 2012 from inner city London, two urban middle-aged professionals with not much in the way of survival skills. 

I worked as an actor, Neil was a manager at BSkyB.

We'd never used a chainsaw, ridden a snowmachine, driven a boat, got firewood, fished, hunted, pickled... we'd never even made jam but were pretty hot with internal communications plans and line learning.

I always wanted to live in the Alaskan wilderness, Neil didn’t. In fact, far from it. 
Alaska!
I'd watched a Disney film called The Wilderness Family as a child growing up in Plymouth and fell in love with the freedom and excitement that Alaska seemed to offer. 

I later found out the film was made in Colorado and set in Canada, so this has all been based on a mistake.

Neil grew up in quiet suburb of well-to-do Winchester. His dreams of adventure didn't extend beyond Dungeons & Dragons gaming with his friend Chris.


Winchester
Somehow we have made it work since 2012. (See How we ended up living in the wilderness.) We return to London for a while in the summers to see friends and family and put on weight.

There is no big dream. We are just muddling along, much the same as we did in London but with different furniture and more chances to die. 

This blog is about trying to stay alive and make it work. 





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