Tuesday June 10, 2025 Guerneville CA.
State park meet up
I had an appointment at 11 this morning to meet up with the state park guys to review my road work and look at some state park property by our property.
I rode on up through the state park heading up this road.
It’s a rather nice road on up through the big redwood trees
I continued on up the road to our meeting place.
Meet up
We met in the theater parking lot and hopped in my side by side to check out the old road I repaired and more. These are some of the head guys in our area which I have known for some time now. They let me get away with a lot because I’m always fixing stuff up and improving things and stopping erosion problem which I do at no charge.
Old road inspection
We headed out and reviewed the old dirt road I fixed up for them and the neighbors. I did all the work for free as a volunteer.
They were happy with all the work and gave me some gold stars for the good work. Part of what I did was to show the neighbors that live back in the hills that use this road how to do a dirt road right so it doesn’t wash out and only needs very low maintenance work and doesn’t cause erosion problems.
When I first started all the neighbors were against me doing the work and thought I’d just make the road worse than it already was. No one one smiled or waved at me at first. I tried to talk with them about it but no one wanted to listen to me.
Show them
I decided the only way to convince them that I knew how to do it right was to show them, so that’s what I did and eventually they started to wave and smile and even stopped to shoot the bull with me.
I did show them which was part of the reason I did this to start with so they would change their ways on their roads and learn to do them right so they weren’t all washing out and taking a lot of maintenance and causing a lot of erosion. Every time it rained they were out after the rain, cleaning out ditches and plugged up culverts.
And now I can see that they are all starting to practice the way I do dirt roads in the steep hills in our area. That is a win, win for everyone.
Fire access
Any way after we inspected the road, we rode on over to our property where I gave them a tour of our place and I showed them some trails I reopened on the park property for fire protection which they were also happy with as the trails are helpful during forest fires so fire fighters can get into the deep forest to work on putting out the forest fires.
It was all good
I’ve been working up here in this forest repairing roads and trails erosion problems and improving fire fighting access which has paid off. I’ve been working on this for a number of years now and keeping quiet about it, so no one would object.
It was a good meeting with them. I returned them to their trucks were we met and got lots of thanks which is always a good thing.
Phone problem
I also got a response from my cell phone provider where I finally got a good answer.
They said to take the battery out of the phone for a bit and then put it back, but that can’t be done easily on my phone. If that didn’t work, they said to ask for a new sim for it, which I think should solve the problem once and for all.
Nice day.
