We saw a lot of what could be viewed as poverty, but much of it looks like it could be on purpose. Living in remote areas, or living off the grid, by choice, doesn’t look like it generates much income. There appear to be a lot of people living just off the road, just doing whatever they need to do to get by in the bush, live in Alaska, and not live in town. That makes me wonder, if by choice someone living off the grid’s income is below the poverty level, do they show up that way in the national and regional statistics? Is there a statistic for poverty-level-by-choice?
We’re still just west of Des Moines. There was severe weather last night and all the occupants of the RV park were evacuated to the tornado shelter for a time. It’s still raining today, but no sign of severe weather for this evening. I think that diagonal band of severe weather on the radar moves a little east every day. Maybe spending two nights here will let it get far enough away we don’t catch-up to it tomorrow.
We’ll see…
Seattle to New York part of the trip map
Still 1,174 miles to Pleasant Valley. P minus 10.
