I spent my formative teenage years in Paradise California, a place where I excelled at Track and Field in High School, set a few records, and eventually flunked out of their damned stupid school. I actually had a counselor tell me that I wasn’t college material.
So, I took his words to heart and hitchhiked around the country for a couple of years, landed in Height Ashbury for a bit, and eventually got my Computer Science degree from Merritt College in Oakland with a 3.98 GPA, in 1971. Go figure…
There is a road that drops off the canyon from the high buttes of Paradise, onto Butte Creek, and into Chico. It’s a road I remember fondly from my youth when I used to test my driving skills on it, in my old hot rod Fords.
There’s an old covered bridge at the bottom and it was hit, and damaged, by a car in 1965 (not me) so they closed it down, built a new bridge, and made a park out of the old.
I’m heading to California this Summer and I will visit this old bridge, so stay tuned. I will also drop down your way in Petaluma Skoge, so make me a bed…
Click the photo below, to check out the map…
We left Paradise and took the Durham-Pentz Road and missed our turn and ended up out amongst the fields in the valley. Thank god we found a fire station that was occupied by one volunteer fire woman. She set us straight. Grant is an awful navigator! We’ll see you sometime this summer.
There are a lot of ways out of Paradise, some not so good!
See you this Summer.
btw: DM your address again so I don’t pull a Grant :-)