Earthships...they're not ships.

Sorry for the delay again; been really busy in Las Vegas at our new receptionist jobs...but that's a different post.

Basically, an Earthship is a solar powered house that is totally self-sustaining...if Bear Grylls was a house, he'd be an Earthship. So D.K. had found a blog about visionary Americans and came across Dan Richfield: A Brooklynite so inspired by the Earthship movement he moved out to Taos, New Mexico to see how it was done and build his own Earthship...which is where we come in. He was taking volunteers to camp out on the site and just help out with the build during the day.

We met/met up with some really good folk while in Taos. There was Brad: a Canadian hitchhiking across the west on his way back home. He was studying environmental science so the earthship scene was pretty ideal for him. Dk's friend from college, Mia, was also meeting us in Taos.

A lot of the work we involved "pounding tires." Basically, you pour a crazy amount of dirt in the dire, compact it to the sides with rocks using a sledgehammer, and line them up next to each other. Sounds like b-word work but the tires are pretty much the bricks of the house, so yeah.

We got to use power tools which was awesome and ended each day by going down to the Rio Grand river and soaking in the hot springs there. Being exhausted is a good feeling; it distracts you from the prospect of black widows crawling in your tent.

 So that was two weeks. We found a cool website called that listed jobs which paid you in room and board. We got accepted for receptionist jobs in Las Vegas. Kind of straying from the manual labor path we were on but we were ready for a break and the idea of screaming "Vegas!!" every two seconds on the car ride over there.

We'll see...