6 — PLUS! — Saturday. December 2. 1989
 Goodbye,
 city
 life
 by BEV CHRISTENSEN____________________________
   Five years ago Sally and Ian Wilson abandoned their high-stress jobs in Vancouver to spend 14 months living in the log cabin they built beside a lake in northern B.C.
   After they were flown into the wilderness lake 120 miles from the nearest settlement at Iskut, about 575 km northwest of Prince George, their first task was to build their cabin and begin gathering wood for the winter. They brought in most of their food and other supplies.
   In retrospect they say, although their friends and family didn’t understand what they were doing, it was the best decision they’d ever made because it gave them a new perspective of city life.
   For example, Sally now says, when living in the bush without electricity, she had more time to read and think than she did when living in the city where she was surrounded by labor-saving devices.
   "That life (living alone in the wilderness) gives you a chance to discover who you are and become self sufficient," she says.
   Ian says, he now feels safer in the bush than he does in downtown Vancouver. Both Wilsons agree the noise and confusion of city life is difficult for them to cope with after they’ve spent several months living in the wilderness.
   "In the city your senses shut down and in the wilderness you're more aware and see and hear more," she said.
   That first trip into the wilderness changed their lives.
   "We thought, after the trip, we'd go back to living in the city but something happened along the way and we now make our living by writing and giving slide shows to children and seniors to pay for a grubstake so we can spend the other part of the year in the bush,” Sally said
   The time they spent at Hottah Lake became a bestselling book, Wilderness Seasons published in 1987. The book now is into its fifth printing.
   They were in Prince George recently to introduce their second book, Wild and Free — Living With Wildlife in Canada’s North, which has already sold 8,000 copies.
   In the book they describe the trips to the Spatsizi Pla-
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 Sally and Ian Wilson find the the noise and confusion of city life is difficult to cope with after they’ve spent several months living in the wilderness.
   photo by Brock Gab e
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