It has been far too long since any progress has been made at the little place in the desert. This main culprit this year has been weather. Mostly rain, excessive amounts of rain. The ranch road going in suffers greatly from erosion during heavy rains. Last time I towed in our run about RV trailer, I damaged the black water tank. The road only got worse for a couple of months after that. Pulling the trailer in became impossible just as if the road had been blocked.
Without access for a sleeping and cool down place on site, the work all but stopped. In early July, I along with my wife and two friends took advantage of a short dry and not too hot spell to go and pour concrete bases for gate columns. The road had gotten so bad that I nearly was forced to run my truck in four wheel drive to pull my utility trailer in with the load of concrete sacks and cinder blocks. In any case, we worked furiously to get as much done by midday as we could. I regret not taking photos of the work as it progressed.
I had to make an unexpected trip to South Carolina and Florida in mid July and while I was traveling the road maintenance crew graded all of the roads in the area. I was pleasantly surprised to see the fantastic condition of the road going in. So I should take the small RV in and park it, right? Well on the trip east, I experienced a roof leak around a roof repair that has become damaged again. I will need to completely remove the old repair and start over with a new repair before the camper can be used. I have to make a return trip to Florida to finish the business from the first trip and the repair will have to wait until I get home. I may try to take advantage of a not so hot day forecast next week to run the block columns up.
Cheers!
