I’m buying all kinds of oddities, perhaps for propane usage in an enclosed space or running water. New tires too. While no doubt finite, the list is too long to write and honestly is at odds with my ideas of living in a sustainable manner.

The bus is after all a genuine tiny house with a low maintenance engine run on leftovers from petroleum refinement bought second hand. Is it not a great compromise? Compared to building a single family house and an accompanying car, the bus sure seems so. Is that the right question though?

Some days all the news is about clear cutting, extinction and other end of the world matters. Ecological footprints and the like. Far away and mega macro. For instance, there is always news when McDonalds decides to make a change such as only buying chicken not pumped with hormones because scale matters. That can’t mean we don’t individually, does it?

It is a sad truth we are indoctrinated to believe our choices and lives themselves are not quite relevant as big picture this keeps folks from voting and locally from choices leading victories however small.

Happily this is demonstrably not the case. For example, while maybe a single car is essentially irrelevant, taken as a whole our choices add up to a lot. Those McDonalds changes are to cater to us, the customers. Last summer’s recorrido was supremely educational in how our perspective and choice are to our resultant planetary impact: we *are* powerful and focusing on what we can control rather than the other stuff is inarguably world changing.