Well, I own only 6.27 acres, but it's on the point of a wedge of thousands of acres where nobody lives. Whoa, that's really isolated. It looks very nicely wooded, too; ours is mostly prairie except for around the house. If you look at a map of Missouri, you might notice the Mark Twain National Forest blocks - we are sort of between the main blocks. This area is too hilly for agriculture, except livestock, and there isn't much else here to draw crowds except the scenery and the university (and pieces of the old Route 66).  The cats seem to like it though. (Aside from the mice, there are frog infested ponds everywhere - there are three within 400 feet or so of my house: one sewer lagoon and two stock ponds.) I'm really not all that isolated: there are several homes along the road - maybe as many as ten along its three or so miles (there is a string of three beginning about 500 feet away across the road), and the road comes out on a couple of fairly good highways about ten minutes from St. James and fifteen from Rolla (about thirty to Salem and some other smaller towns).  It's close enough to Rolla that a cat I tried to adopt from just east of there ran away and returned home in three days. T.E.D. ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - e-mail must contain T.E.D. or my .sig in the body)