Another Day Off and Exploring Another Neighbor's Place

Saturday March 8, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Barry showed up in the yard today which meant we’d go for a dirt bike ride up in the forest and I wouldn’t be moving rock for the old dirt road.

We rode around and around through the forest and eventually ended up at our break area on this hill top for a break and to enjoy the day.

Eventually we left there and stopped here so Barry could throw a log off the road.

The log wasn’t very big so all I had to do was take a picture and watch as Barry did all the hard work.

We rode around some more and decided we go over and see if our neighbor Cliff was around.

We made it over to his gate, but was closed so he wasn’t there.

However, I had permission to move some logs and go around the gate, so we moved the logs and Barry started around the locked gate. I had the combo, but we cleared the trail around so next time we wouldn’t have to use the gate as it was easier to just go around it.

We hadn’t rode all around on this property before, but we’d been to where the house was several times.

We took a side road and explored this hill. We had to walk up it for a bit of exercise.

This place used to be a sheep ranch, back before 1960, so there were some nice meadows here for us to explore.

We looked around checking the place out riding over the nice grassy hill sides.

We rode up to where the house used to be and hiked up the hill to where their spring was for a nice walk.

Old house

Eventually we worked our way back to where the old house used to be. Some wild plum trees were blooming in the old orchard area.

We’d parked on top of where the old house used to be. The house made it through the forest fire in 2020, just barely as the fire burnt right up to it,,,,,,,,,,,,,But.

Huge explosion

There was a huge explosion that I heard down at my house about a year later that blew the house up and burned the house down from a propane leak. One guy died and the other two guys were too old to live there anymore and were lucky to survive. They moved to an older folks home and it looks like Cliff inherited the place and has been trying to clean up all the trash on the place that has built up over the years. I think we counted about twenty old cars and trucks Cliff is trying to move off the place along with a lot of other stuff.

The house was on this spot.