On a plateau in central Idaho, Almost Heaven looks a lot like a trailer park. Laundry flaps in the wind at some homes.
Old vehicles sit among weeds at others.
The housing development, started by patriot leader Bo Gritz in 1994 as a refuge from urban ills and the predicted chaos of the millennium bug, has stirred concerns among local residents that an armed group of people worried about Y2K was moving in. But the results are more banal. Gritz doesn't live here anymore. The former Green Beret colonel returned to southern Nevada this year after a failed marriage and suicide attempt. Fuller and her husband were among the first residents of Almost Heaven.