Richard<\/em> is the fascinating story of a travelling piano tuner who chooses to live outdoors.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve always loved piano tuners. The white-mustachioed, soft-spoken fellow who stopped by the house to attend to our beloved baby grand was a fantastic combination of patience,\u00a0precision, and musicality. I still remember him spending hours hunched over the keys, making inaudible (to me) adjustments ad infinitum<\/em>, and finishing off with a burst of Bach just to make sure everything was in melodic order.\u00a0Piano tuners are\u00a0such interesting people<\/a>.<\/p>\n The \u201cRichard\u201d mentioned above is no exception. Meet\u00a0Richard Roberts<\/a>,\u00a0who\u2019s been caring for\u00a0acoustic\u00a0pianos \u201cin London for over ten years, and previously in Oxford and Portsmouth for ten years before that.\u201d Also, he\u2019s homeless, and intentionally so.<\/p>\n The long term goal of my lifestyle experiment is to find my own way to balance modern life with respect for our planet, in a lifestyle that\u2019s both physically and mentally edifying and that still enables me to make my own contribution to the future of our race. I\u2019m only consuming 10% of the energy and resources that I used to, and I want to keep the pressure on until I\u2019m only consuming 1%, whilst still getting on with every project I feel is important.<\/p>\n On his blog<\/a>, Roberts details some of the challenges of his Great Adventure (which he began back in December, 2001), such as packing and traveling as lightly as possible<\/a>, sleeping by the Thames without a sleeping bag<\/a>, and the\u00a0under-appreciated\u00a0value of a place to shower<\/a>. (That last topic finds its way into the Vimeo<\/em> clip, rendering it a touch more\u2026revealing of Roberts than is strictly necessary. Be careful out there, people.)<\/p>\n