Lloyd Locust

Exactly Rich. It really is quite simple. I dream my son finds the right people, we are trying to find, to tribe or commune up with and finally stop using the machine.
I spend most of my meager dollars I make doing manual labor or selling lambs on non industrial infrastructure. A better trailer, always used, to pull my son with my bike, handtool maintenance tools, quality food, local lumber or scaveneged lumber etc.
its about adapatability. becoming uncomfortable and then your baseline changes because you are adapting to climactic change, physiologically becoming tougher without tech. to support the comfort habit. my partner lived with more comfort than me when we met but has adapted herself to this lower tech lifestyle. she also is doing it for our child so he can hopefully have a cleaner future and a healthier upbringing.
it doesnt mean it isn't hard at times because it is. and when we visit family and use the grid for a couple hours or stay the night (sometimes a hot shower or this computer or to cook a  meal with everyone via modern conveniences) it is like a little vacation. though we go weeks and have gone quite longer without. but you have to watch yourself because tech. is very sneaky and i feel it can set you back from physical and mental growth away from being reliant. this morning my son and I bicycled the few miles to my mothers to do some work for her. we built no fire this morning in the 20's, just got up put on chilly clothes and did it. if my son lived in constant comfort and knew the ease of a vehicle(which he does) at all times he wouldn't have enjoyed it. but he knows this is reality for us and dad doesn't like life to be contingent on our living destroying other life.
big subject and i never can take the time needed to really extrapolate on these things(computers).

if we want to get back to the land we can't keep a bunch of extractive technologies between us and skill and craft and experience. we often take our herd of subsistence sheep(sometimes other critters) into the back country and stay primitive and semi nomadic.
we have to start to wean off of industrialized everything.
recommend reading Mark Boyle's book The Way Home-Tales from a Life without technology

I've lived without electricity or running water for my full time living for almost 5 years and did on and off mostly out of tents and families backyards etc for 8 or 9. My partner and our son have lived almost since he was born 4 years ago without electricity besides a couple batteries we sometimes hook up to a light or an occasional appliance no running water, get it all in jugs at a mountain spring we often walk or push carts to or get it on the way home from town. use a lot of rain water when it isn't freezing solid. we live near family now so do use their facilities at times, laundry-especially in winter, computer(as we keep no internet or computers at our place). we only cook and heat with wood all year. outside on open fire or rocket stoves.
we use no petroleum on our 'stead, from cutting wood to watering our herd or chickens.
we burn mostly candles and fat lanterns I made from an ox we killed and butchered with zero modern technology. we keep our meat hung outside dry and in the open air till it is eaten.
I'd almost call us stone age day to day. I only use hand tools for working lumber to burying timbers. we are more focused on an ecologically honest lifestyle with little impact. we are not perfect of course as we are all products of our hyper extractive industrial society.
our son knows for most days wood heat and sunlight, generally to bed after dark and up when it feels like time to get up.

Good to have a reply and not a "like", honestly. There are a lot of people in the west full time nomadic with their own herds. The East not so much and I am not sure why. There is a lot of greenery and lands to explore.
I just am not super convinced a settled existence is everything. Movement is the original way before we even herded. I am not against subsistence agriculture, but I just don't think it is for me and my family. We'd like to maybe trailer our critters behind her little pick up and find communities to help out and then still be able to graze our little herd.

My wife and son and I live our days in tents and our little hand built cabin. We keep a tiny subsistence herd of sheep, milk, meat, wool, hides, and our ram has a pack saddle. We move our critters every single day with a whole tool box of herding tactics. Solar fence, tethers, human tended etc. We are sliding towards more nomadic living because we've done the sedentary homestead thing enough.
Anyone else out there moving around with a herd that keeps you alive? Its the closest thing to living wild without totally being a part of this culture as you can get these days, legally that is. We graze on friends land, acquaintance's, public and minor trespass and our own little plot which is mostly goldenrod pollinator meadow right now.
Also semi open to visitors or "farm" hands. But we are primitive here. No internet, screens, electricity except for a small battery refrigerator for warm months, plumbing etc. We cook 99.9 percent of the time with solar and fire, everyday. Water from a couple springs up here in the North Central Penna. mountains. We eat our animals and wild ones, roadkill, some hunting need be. We of course buy food from store but only if it is of high quality. No machines except for a pick-up. Hand tools for everything from haying to wood cutting.
We are open and looking to join and help out other communities as well. Sort of nomadic homesteading if you may. We have a myriad of skills from living this way  and from previous work experience.
Take Care folks!