Back in the saddle again...

as far as looking at houses, that is.

Words do no justice to our adventure this afternoon trying to see one house-
5 acres on top of a mountain. Literally you can see the ocean from it. They have pictures of the view from the house to prove it.

Sounds lovely doesn't it?

Well.. there might not be internet available there other than dial up, but we wanted to at least to check it out.
5 acres, no neighbors and ocean views?! I mean, really- it called to our inner pioneer spirit.

Mapquest had it 30 minutes from the hospital, so.. why not see it. I mean- 5 acres- what's to loose?

I'll tell you what you can loose- your life

and/or your car as it snakes up the side of the mountain on a rutted road wide enough and appropriate for a mule- on the side of the mountain. With nothing keeping you from the drop off into the ravine so deep you can't even see the bottom of it from standing on the side of the rutty road.

We were driving out there, turn out of town, head north and the road gets really sharp turns and winds around mountain sides- but paved. We get a little further out and it gets more narrow, and driving the Excursion we essentially take up the whole road..

And then the pavement ended.

And the adventure began.

I have pictures and video which I'll upload but suffice to say we got 70% of the way there when the road that mapquest said was there was just too steep and too narrow and too rutted to try to navigate.

We could see the house, on top of the mountain, we just couldn't get there. At the place where we we turned from the road that was passable to the road that wasn't passable, there was a car rolled on it's side and completely stripped.

Ominous- did it slide down the rutted road that way or is it there in red-neck fashion?

As Larry was backing down from where we just couldn't pass any further and we were 90% sure AAA wasn't going to save our butts on this one and for the first time- EVER- the kids were silent in the car. I think they had an idea that maybe mom and dad were really really nervous and talking was a bad idea.

ok.. finding camera cord and coming back with the video and pictures

And now Larry feels like the mountain is not going to get the best of him. He wants to try scaling the mountain from the other side of the mountain and road to see if we can get there that way. You can be sure I'll be videoing the WHOLE thing instead of snippets between getting whiplash from the bumps and trying to not toss my lunch...

And I want to know- do you think a moving truck would be willing to move us there? Or do we need to rent a cargo helicopter?

And another first- none of the kids got carsick on this wild wildadventure..