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Been 5 years I haven't had a mains line for electricity. Living off the sun in a location where it is cloudy most of the year is feasible if you can turn off power hungry devices when not needed or when it's been very overcast. This has become a habit now and I have no regrets.

Grateful for this exercise in being always aware of my power demands and what my environment can afford me.

Harshad Sharma

Wow this really resonated with many!

For anyone considering this path, it's possible to provision enough panels and battery backup to not be constantly reminded of being off-grid, if your budget and geography allows, but I've come to appreciate the awareness towards weather that being completely dependent on the sun shining has brought into my daily life.

Thank you for the boosts and faves. I didn't think my posts could go this far. Fediverse rocks because you do!

Just got back from a lovely night ride to town (6pm to 11pm) and I'm probably too tired to compose thought-through, good enough replies. Will get around to that in the morning.

@hiway how far do you live from town? No worries, i'm mainly jealous. Just moved to Spain to live off grid. Been here about 3 months, but only had 1 day or riding.

@duncan71m I'm about 35km from town. It's a beautiful hill road.

How is Spain for motorcycling? Also, I got my bike here after I was here for 4 years X-) Should have done it sooner!

@hiway oh I got my bike here, but I got too much to do making the current house livable. We got 4 panels going, but the battery doesn't seem to charge enough. So we're still studying that. Working on the water supply and storage. Isolation, heating.
Bike is stored in a garage im renting in town. Im only 5 km from town. A gravel road gets me there. The road on my terrain is too unpleasant to ride by bike.
After the gravel road, it fantastic to ride here in Spain. Most places are quite enough.

@hiway roads are nicely smooth and curvy. Only thing I need to get used to that blocking a passage seems normal here.
I can choose straight highways and go up to 120km per hour or select the windey mountain roads. Both a great pleasure.

@duncan71m blocking passage - sounds familiar, it's a thing here as well X-) Highways sound awesome, we have 80kmph speed limits here, and it's okay because my old 350cc doesn't like higher speeds (vibrates a lot beyond 90).

The gravel last mile seems dodgy, mine is a kilometer of rutted dirt track, but I kinda like that now. Used to be a bit stressed getting out and then back to farm.

Hope you find time to ride out soon!