Chapter 16: Long Hard Road (Part One)

It’s been a long hard road to finally end up where I started in the 2003 when Mom and I first moved into Tulelake, California and we were living at 316 B Street, PO Box 813, Tulelake, CA 96134-0813

My first trip to Klamath Falls on Saturday to get gas and get cash from the ATM for my friend Lanie Bailey that I was going to rent her mobile home that had no water hooked up and problems with the electricity line. No plumping and no power and she wanted me to rent it. The place inside was thrashed where other people had lived in it and just let the garbage pile up and it was not habitual by any means. Not only was the inside a mess like I have never seen before, the yard outside had all kinds of weeds and junk all over the place. And yet, I was expected to rent this place in the dilapidated condition that it was in.

I spent three weeks in Redd Bluff with all my belongings that I could fit into my van when I left Redding, CA on June 30th with the hope that I could finally find a place to call home again. In Redd Bluff I slept in an old beat up motor home that was also a piece of junk where I pulled my mattress out of my van and slept in it while waiting to make the trip to Tulelake, CA. Eating lunch at the Vineyard free lunch program for the homeless or houseless in my case. Where I was to stay, there was no rest room so I had to go to Wal-Mart or wait each day until I went to lunch to use the rest room. Being a male if I had to go I could find a place to relief myself with the exception of bowel movements then I would have to wait until the next day and go when I went to lunch. Where I was staying there were no facilities that I could use with that purpose in mind. Which I will explain some other time about the conditions and where I staying and why.

On my first trip to Klamath Falls I thought on the way I would stop by Eternal Hills to see if Mom’s marker was where it was suppose to be. This same friend was following me to Klamath Falls. The deal was before we left that they wanted me to give them $150.00 for the rest of the month when we arrived in Tulelake, CA at her Mobile Home and if it did not work out she wanted to borrow it so that they could use it to make repairs. After arriving and seeing the condition of the Mobile Home I regressed and did not offer them anything for obvious reasons and the obstacles of the ill repair on the plumbing and electrical problems plus the fact that she is more than six months behind in the space rent and expected me to pay more than the space rent in order to use me to catch up with her past space rent payments. After I arrived I discovered she had tried to do this with other friends of hers that lived here in Tulelake and I was the third person that backed out of the deal. I wonder why?

This friend when Mom was alive helped me take care of Mom when she was here among the living. I spent the last week sleeping in my van out front of the Mobile home as it was no place I was going to move my stuff in with the condition it was in. She was used to that kind of filth and where she lives in Redd Bluff it’s a junk yard too with all kinds of junk where they live in two small travel trailers behind a fenced yard with two junked cars, a shed with no plumping other than one of the two travel trailers that was not in the best of condition either and no electricity other than a power generator that uses gas to generate power. Not only no way to use the rest room, nowhere to take a shower either. The only place to take a shower with warm water was inside one of the trailers behind the fence that the septic tank was backed up and toilet was difficult to flush. Where her dog that is known to bite people was at unless they took her with them or put her in the trailer that did not have the working shower and toilet.

Where the motor home I was sleeping in did not have a working toilet or shower in it. There was another storage that had another junk car and other stored stuff along with a camper that was filled with junk too. They rent the space there for only $200.00 a month. It is supposed to be a business on a back lot area but it is more like a junkyard. The only good thing is I had a fan and a small TV to help pass the time but I would only use the TV at night for a couple of hours due to the generated power situation. I paid $20.00 for gas, bought them dinner once from KFC the last night before we left and gave them $50.00 for sleeping there.

The day before I made the trip to Klamath Falls my friend came to me crying one morning that since I decided not to rent her Mobile Home they were now out of money and did not have enough gas to get back home. All the time we spent here they accomplished nothing but had time to run around all over the place and do other things that had nothing to do with the task at hand.

Go to Chapter 16: Long Hard Road (Part Two)

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