Fort Circadia

in 2022 I decided to add circadian living to my gut-healing lifestyle. I began sleeping, end eventually living, outside, and fell in love with it.

How do you create a structure that is portable, can be built on a grade, can be fully open-air, convert for rain protection, and has a floor?

The answer turns out to be scaffolding.

Living outside turned into a fun camping experimental lifestyle.

I learned a lot about paying attention to the sun, moon, seasons, stars, and weather.

I’ve had many wild animal encounters including aggressive wasps, wild boar, and a black badger (or wolverine?) that watched me sleep.

I am able to open and close the tarp/curtain walls depending on the weather and the seasons.

I set myself up with solar power, a hidden worm composting squat toilet, and running water.

For lighting at night I use a red headlamp and my grandad’s old oil lamp from his sailboat. But mostly I go to bed around sunset.

Here, you can see Orion watching over my tent, with Lepus below and Sirius peeking out from behind the trees.

I love this lifestyle so much, and wanted to be more portable, so Fort Circadia is now on it’s next iteration, which is an open-air trailer.

There are many problems that present themselves, living this way. For example, I’ve damaged my electronics by using them in the heat and having water condense at night. The important part is that I’m having fun, learning, and most of all, feeling happy and sunny.