John Wells, 64, Who Fled New York for the Solitude of the Desert, Dies

> He eventually arranged for a D.S.L. line and phone service (it cost $10 to bury the cables and run them to his property from the highway two and a half miles away).

Either that’s a typo for $10k or he had the nicest phone company in existence.

John Wells' blog: https://thefieldlab.blogspot.com