Willits: a small town in Mendocino County on Highway 101, about 100 miles north of Petaluma. My friend Will is living here part-time, in a hand-built house with lots of stained glass windows, off the grid on a dirt road—and this week, so am I.
I arrived one hot afternoon, just in time to jump in the pond to cool off after the long drive. Later we watched the full moon rise orange through the…