When we first met we both had a long-term vision of owning a few acres of land in an area of natural beauty that we could share with family and friends. We devised a “search plan” for available land and established some basic principles upon which our decision to purchase would be made. One important concept was that we wanted the land to be protected from encroaching real estate development. Locating land near national forests and state parks or designated preserves was therefore one of our “basic principles.”
We eventually located land that was an “in-holding” in the Daniel Boone National Forest. One whole section of the land borders the national forest proper, and is therefore unlikely to see much development. I tracked-down the owner of the land who had moved to Tenessee. He wasn't much interested in selling it, but each time we returned from a hiking trip I called him up. Eventually, I must have wore him down, because he finally agreed to sell us his three acres.
The (almost) finished cabin
Work Party Camp-out
The old structure