{"id":9542,"date":"2022-10-07T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=9542"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:42:52","slug":"renee-micks-homestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2022\/10\/07\/renee-micks-homestead\/","title":{"rendered":"Renee & Micks Homestead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We stopped by Renee and Mick’s homestead on our way back home this summer.\u00a0\u00a0 Luckily, Renee mentioned I shouldn’t be concerned when I saw a gravel road to go down.\u00a0\u00a0 When I saw it, I was concerned for a few seconds; then realized that if they could get their coach in there, I shouldn’t have an issue as they are probably 1 foot taller and 5 foot longer.\u00a0\u00a0 It was very tight going, narrow and completely tree-lined, very close on each side of this long one-lane gravel road.\u00a0 I wondered what would happen if somebody came the other way.\u00a0 Luckily no one did.\u00a0\u00a0 There wasn’t anywhere to pull off that I saw.\u00a0 Within a few minutes, I saw their motorhome and was glad we made it there.\u00a0\u00a0 Mick came out to point out a few places where we could park.\u00a0 We drove the bus over top where they will be building the house.<\/p>\n

I could not believe how much work they had done in the short time since they bought that forested land:\u00a0 \u00a0Removing about an acre of trees, which would be no small feat; bringing in power; drilling a well; installing a septic system and leech field.\u00a0 And they were traveling and working a lot of the time!<\/p>\n

Renee had insisted she make dinner the night we were there.\u00a0 I had assumed we would go out or at least get takeout.\u00a0 But as we got there, I realized she was right, as we were driving away from the freeway, there wasn’t anywhere nearby their homestead for takeout or dine in.<\/p>\n

We got to see the foot print for their house and shop building.\u00a0\u00a0 I learned that the building department does not allow them to build the shop first, but have to build the house then the shop.\u00a0\u00a0 I thought it would be nice to build the shop, pull their motorhome inside out of the weather, and then build the house; but the local building department won’t allow them to do that.<\/p>\n

After a very nice dinner, we discussed interesting happenings and some of the \"\"<\/a>travails of motorhome travel.\u00a0 They had an incredible experience when pulling into a wedding venue and the dip at the entrance lifted their drive wheels off the ground so they were stuck and needed a large wrecker to pull them off.\u00a0 The most interesting part was their motorhome manufacturer installs rollers at the rear of the coach for just such a scenario.\u00a0 Without rollers, I would guess there would have been substantial damage to the undercarriage. \u00a0 Yikes!<\/p>\n

The next morning we said our goodbyes and headed back out that gravel road to find some pavement and get to our next stop at 7 Feathers Resort.\u00a0 Hope to see their beautiful home after it is completed!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We stopped by Renee and Mick’s homestead on our way back home this summer.\u00a0\u00a0 Luckily, Renee mentioned I shouldn’t be concerned when I saw a gravel road to go down.\u00a0\u00a0 When I saw it, I was concerned for a few seconds; then realized that if they could get their coach in there, I shouldn’t have … <\/p>\n

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