Because I believed then (erroneously) that the U.S. government was going to go bankrupt because of the Financial Boondoggle that the Viet Nam war was. It was likely the most wasteful war (money wise) until the Iraq war and Afghan war that the U.S. had ever been involved in.
When did I realize that what I believed wasn't true?
At some point between 1981 and 1983 I realized that we had made really good friends with all of Europe and Japan and because of this we weren't going to go bankrupt because we had loaned them all money to bail them out when their countries all were destroyed almost completely by world war II. The countries destroyed the most were Japan and around London and in Germany. So, since the war never came into the lower 48 states really at all our manufacturing and farming industries were still intact after World War II and loaned money to everyone and thereby made friends with all countries, especially England, Germany and Japan. Eventually by Nixon and Kissinger making China trading partners we avoided an inevitable nuclear war with China in the process in the 1970s. Nixon and Kissinger literally stopped World War III and world nuclear annihilation by creating trading partners with China.
While I was studying about survival techniques we met Larry Dean Olson:
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In 1968, a Brigham Young University professor named Larry Dean Olsen, author of Outdoor Survival Skills, founded a program to take failing college students into the wilderness for 30 days. So, my wife and I learned a lot from him and others like Crow who was a native American Medicine man who also sometimes took a job as going and roping teenagers escaping from survival quests.
I know this sounds bad but it was a way then in the 1980s for teenagers to get off drugs and not go to jail by going on a group survival quest across Idaho with nothing but the group and a knife and a blanket for survival. So, Crow would go along when some of them escaped on his horse and track them down on horseback and bring them back to the group. many of the teenagers were drying out from various drugs. However, if they spent a month with a group away from drugs and criminal or drug addicted friends I think they had a 90% or better success rate with these kids then of not going back on drugs or going back to crime.
So, this was one of the things my wife and I learned during this time of how learning survival skills helped everyone survive long term by just getting closer with nature.
One time we took our kids which were then around 8 years old to 11 I think and we went to Big Sur to the VEntana Wilderness and then hiked 13 miles in with them to Sykes Camp where there is a hot springs there in the early 1980s. But, we only took lunch at the time. We told our kids to only eat 1/2 of their sandwiches and lunch because they needed to eat the other half of their sandwich for dinner. They had jackets but no tents or sleeping bags. I think we realized soon that we were going to the Himalayas and so we wanted our kids to survive all this both physically and psychologically. They all made it through the night okay by building a fire and heating up large rocks which we put just under a layer of sand next to the river to warm ourselves on since we only had our jackets and pants and shoes for warmth.
The next day walking out the 13 miles one by one they psychologically broke down. We knew this would happen so we were there to observe this so they wouldn't hurt themselves while they psychologically lost it.
What we found was that the youngest lost it first and screamed and cried while walking out the 13 miles. But, our oldest a boy was stronger than the other two so when it lost it he really lost it and it scared us how bad he got.
But, from this all learned that given enough survival stress they were going to "lose it" and then recover. So, from this experience they were then ready for whatever happened in the Himalayas in Nepal and India for 4 months time in 1985 and 1986 when we went to Thailand, India, Nepal and Japan for 4 months from December of 1985 until April of 1986.
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In 1968, a Brigham Young University professor named Larry Dean Olsen, author of Outdoor Survival Skills, founded a program to take failing college students into the wilderness for 30 days.
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