Hey Kevin.
Not really advice, just a story. When I was 16 I thought my time would be better served focusing on rewilding. I dropped out of high school and started this path. I have never looked back! Welcome to Rewild. I hope this site can help you, whatever path works.
Welcome!
Where at in Appalachia are you? Seems like, itās slowly growing out this way.
Hey Kevin, if you go to Trackers NW, even if you donāt end up liking it, youāll be in the great NW. A handful of rewilding types are out here. Perhaps meeting different folks, and touring land projects, could help inspire your own course, or hook you into something that is already moving. You can find a few of us on here. Between Grimkin, Porcupine Palace, and myself (all on rewild.info) we represent 3 different āback to the landā oriented groups. There also seems to be a decent sized OR crew as well. The more the merrier right? (Untill you near carrying capacity I suppose. ::))
Hello all.
My name is John, everyone calls me Johnny. I am originally from southwest montana, and then moved to Cody. Right now I live out of my car and go where ever the wind blows. I am a desert rat. I love the areas of southern Utah, and consider Moab my Mecca. Hence, Edward Abbey is my favorite author, and one of my favorite teachers. I am a mountain rat. I love the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and spend 90% of my time in it, hiking. I have been remodeling a house for one of my friends, when I am back home, to run 90% on renewable energies, and biomass. I have worked on biomass projects, and am very into environmental conservation projects and ideas. I am a very anti-corporation/consumerism/industry. I think we should demolish every building over two stories high, get rid of our cars, and all go back to powering ourselves around. It would make life more interesting. I am a river rat. I have floated into the canyons of Utah, and the flats of Montana and Wyoming, and through the mountains of all three states. I have guided people professionally, either on the river or on horseback for 8 years, and have found it to be a good way to make a living. It gives me a chance to teach people that may have never experienced things from that perspective about nature. My degree is in outdoor recreation, and would have double majored, but was about 2 classes short to qualify for resource management. That will be fixed eventually. Basically I am a very open minded, but very opinionated individual, and am very, very happy to have found a place like this. It is refreshing to find people with quite a few opinions that I share.
Hello,
My name is Shawn. Iām originally from Northern California. I am now living in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. Iām in my late 30s.
Iāve considered myself an anarchist since high school, and have gone through a few iterations of prefixes/postfixes for that term. I am most aligned with anarcho-primitivist thought these days. My favorite authors are Nietzsche, Zerzan, Abbey, and Thoreau.
I had the pleasure of growing up with a family who was very outdoor oriented - my first wilderness backpacking trip was when I was a toddler. I very much miss the Sierras.
Iām working on developing a number of primitive skills - atlatl making, bow making, etc.
Ironically, Iām an IT engineer for a huge multinational corporation. And I hate it.
Love the site - I have been a lurker for quite a while. Hope to be more participatory in the future.
Shawn
Welcome to the forum, Shawn! Thanks for coming to surface. An ex-lurker is a fine thing to be. 
Zerzan makes me feel depressed, but recognizing truth in his observations is all the more reason to get out of civilization.
Cheers,
Rebecca
Welcome Johnny and Shawn
there seems to be a lot of us in the carolina area.
should we do a meetup or camp or something?
Hey welcome all !
Hi Everone,
Iām Stef. Iām from Utah, Salt Lake City, but currently in St. Louis, Missouri, and trying to figure out how to set up a little rewilded corner in the city (you start where youāre at, I guess?) with the dumster-diving possums and the mockingbirds that mimic car alarms ā¦
Really, really happy to see you all ā¦ so glad that a friend pointed me here. I think my heartās way ahead of where I am in the physical world as far as where I want to be in terms of lifestyle. Planning to step it up quite a bit this year if possible. We shall see!
welcome stef, good to see ya 
So, yeah.
Iām tired of the whole system treating me the same way it would treat dog shit. I donāt care if a crash is coming or going. I just want off this crazy thing.
I used to have a few friends I could talk about this stuff with and now I donāt have anyone.
Soā¦ yeah.
Welcome Stef and No Parking,
No Parking,
Could you tell us some more about yourself? Where are you from, where do you live now? What events/things brought you to rewilding, and how did you find out about the site? What do you hope to accomplish here?
Thanks for joining. Looking forward to hearing more from all the new peeps.
Scout
Hey new people! whats up?
I currently make my bed in Panama City, Florida, where sometimes I can feel the walls closing in. I used to have a few friends I could talk to about some of this stuff in Tampa, but I lost touch with them. The first book of any real political import I ever read was Ishmael (followed immediately by Beyond Civilization). Years later I would I would find other books including Culture of Make Believe that sent me reeling. Sometimes, I feel like Iām still in shock.
I found the site just from scouring the web for a forum like this. After I lost touch with those friends, it was comfortable to stop thinking about escaping or at least try to stop thinking about it. But I donāt think I can do that anymore.
Hey there No Parking -
This overwhelming āshock and aweā you talk of is something I seem to experience in spades. Have you read this book by Chellis Glendinning? Iām in the middle of reading it right now, and so far itās been a good help.
ā¦and loved every word of it.
ā¦and should probably send for a copy of it as the only copy Iāve seen was in the USF library where in my tender care the cover came off. Shoulda just kept it and paid the āI lost itā fee.
Hey yaāll!
my name is will, and iām from birmingham, alabama, but right now, Iām at boarding school in New Hampshireā¦ BUURRRR. Anyways, Iāve been looking at this site and Anthropik for awhile now, being interested in rewilding and such. well iāll leave it at that. hey everyone!!
Hello everyone, my name is Ben. I live in Groveland, Florida, and have been rewilding for about three months, Iām originally from Pensacola, and I wish I could move back, the forests up there are nice Iām currently in school as well, going for a career in Medicine.
shadowfox, what kind of medicine?