On our recent trip to Bristol we visited a cemetery with the oldest man in the world.

Si Goodson was reported to be 132 when he died. That would be 10 years more than the oldest verified person on record which is Jeanne Calment who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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