My buddy Pat and I visited the land several times over 3 years to decide where the building site should be, how we could get a road up to the site, and where exactly to locate the house, garage and parking .

This s a photo of the start of the newly-created rough road about 4 years ago.

The road overall is about 1,400 ft long.

We ran into hard rock right where we wanted a switchback. It took a lot of hammering, and finally explosives, to make it easy to drive round the bend.

Road building is a lot of fun, but far more expensive than you would think.