• Redoubt; “Something that holds or defends a belief or way of life; especially one that is disappearing or threatened”

• Bound; “Traveling in the direction of…”

To be “Redoubt Bound” is to be “Traveling in the direction of something that defends a belief or way of life that is disappearing or threatened”

Boundaries of The American Redoubt

not quite right?

Why are we “Deciding To Go”? Have you ever felt that things were “not quite right”? Looked around you as you did your day to day activities and felt “out of place” even though you had lived there all your life? Even my father in the last few years of his life used to tell me that “things” were changing. Well folks, things HAVE changed and things they ARE different. CRAZY BUSY all the time among other things… Of course many other places in the world experience the same things so we know this isn’t anything directed at us personally but we still feel it…

crowds, traffic, noise, pollution

And of course when people congregate to an area they bring with them all the things that large groups of people bring with them when they gather; crowds, traffic, noise, pollution, crime and on and on. Overall man as a species is very inconsiderate and uncaring about what we destroy, use up or impact with our day to day activities. This occurs even for those that work hard NOT to have that type of impact. Just the way it seems to be but we don’t like it…

state government

We also started to look closer at the state government and the things that they have done over the last 10 to 20 years. Overspending, overtaxing (indicating great wasting of money), sanctuary cities, extreme ideologies, corruption and and a very adamant hatred of the second amendment. State government is it’s own topic; so we’ll leave it at this for now…

deciding to go

We started by talking together and praying together and eventually came to the realization that we needed to make a change, get out of the sprawl of “civilization” and to a safe and hopefully less stressful life. Deciding to go we began moving towards that goal, the goal of finding an “out of the way” piece of property where we would have the freedom to believe the way we wanted to believe, to remove ourselves from the constant hustle and bustle and in essence slow our lives down as we headed into our “golden years”. Odd that we are feeling the need to leave an area we’ve been in all of our lives and we end up realizing that a much better life may very well await us.

just how little we knew

The first thing we realized was just how little we knew, or worse, how incorrect the things that we “thought” we knew were. So, we began to read, study, discuss and plan for the basic questions of Who, What, When, Where, Why and How? We began to haunt blogs and “survival” type sites. (we don’t consider ourselves “preppers” or survivalists but found that these types of sites often held the most useful information). Initially the number of “things” to consider was overwhelming but we persisted and with that we had begun our journey to the American Redoubt.