£10,000

[Shewie]

If I gave you ten grand how you would spend it? *

Try and keep it a little bit bushcrafty but anything goes. Imagine you're starting with nothing, work and family commitments can be ignored to keep it nice and simple.

How would you spend it, would you go for that once in a lifetime trip? Buy a tipi and stove, a royalex canoe, and a ferry ticket to Norway? A time share in a Swedish log cabin next to a lake somewhere remote? Buy a load of gucci gear and just enjoy it when you can? A year of courses at Woodlore? Try and get your NCFE bushcraft instructors badge? Buy a wee sailing boat and tour the Scottish islands one summer?

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* I don't have £10k spare unfortunately so this is purely hypothetical

 

[Dreadhead]

small plot of land with trees. use the timber tae build myself an ecohome based around a pictish roundhouse and the rest tae invest in some animals for the missus tae manage for resources. she does the animals, i do the land. 10 grand goes a long way if you can live without many comforts

 

[Wayland]

I'd buy a new van.

My current one has a quarter of a million miles on the clock and it gets me to the places I want to go with all my kit in it.

With that sorted I would be able to afford all the other things I want in life.

 

[Dreadhead]

or a plane tae norway and spend several years in the woods and mountains

 

[Kepis]

Id take the family on a trip to the Great Lakes & The Rocky Mountains and hire some professional guides to show us the non tourist (read spoilt) areas, and then Id go on to Disney World, where id meet up with my Uncle and cousins who live in Florida and basically have a blast.

 

[ex-member Raikey]

just had your bonus Rich?

 

[John Fenna]

I would give half to my favourite charities and half to my wife - job done!

 

[Nagual]

I'd take myself n Bivibabe on a trip to the Rockies, spending our time on a horse trek with a guide for a couple of weeks. Followed by some canoeing and maybe some light backpacking too. A few nights in a 5 star hotel to recover of course at the end of it all..

 

[cbr6fs]

If i had nothing then i'd either use it to set myself up in business, or i'd get a job and invest it.
Difficult guessing what to invest in these days, but i'd have this as a long term investment so would probably go for £10k worth of premium bonds.

 

[udamiano]

descent sleeping bag, hammock, stove, knife, axe, and saw, the rest on supplies and fuel. get in a landrover and just go. Don't know where, just go from place to place, country to country, north to south, east to west. and have adventures

 

[nuggets]

put it in me buy a `bush` plane fund !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ppCbdPA-8


ahhh maybe one day !!!

 

[Teepee]

I'd go straight to Canada for 6 months to check out work opportunities and dissapear for a while into the wilderness.

 

[Mesquite]

I'd probably do the route that John Steinbeck did when he wrote 'Travels With Charley' . That's been on my wish list for a long timebut I'd probably add a detour to it and go up through the Canadian Rockies over into Alaska as well

 

[gsfgaz]

I would buy a nice camper van ,

 

[gabrielsdad]

Without a doubt. Anythung that could transport me to most navigable pount on the danube. A novacraf5 prospector. Lavvu and stove. And go all the way down to the sea. Im already gathrrung the gear for it, aling with the neccesary skills and 8 more years me and my son are going to do it

 

[British Red]

I would buy a plot of land adjoining mine and plant coppice wood on it for fuel independence. A circle of trees would be allowed to grow to maturity for Shewie to pitch his hammock in for perpetuity

 

[Humpback]

Having just done an 'experience' as a gift I would buy a Segway with off road tires for bushcraft - they're brilliant and then I would waste the other £5K.

 

[greenwood]

Holiday abroad to Canada/Greenland/Sweden/Norway or plot of land/woodland

 

[JAG009]

Well Rich for me it would be pack the ultra light kit up and get a cheap flight to the USA were i would set about doing the triple crown


Jason

 

[bilmo-p5]

I'd pay off my debts and take my wife on holiday.