Hint re identity of this Eagles & GR blogger: I'm from 1 of the wealthiest 'old money' GR families

Hint re identity of this eagles blogger: 

I'm from 1 of the  wealthiest 'old money' 💰 GR families. My grandfather was a entrepreneur who grew up in Holland & Grand Rapids in the early 1900's & later made millions in Chicago as an inventor.

 After which he moved his business back to GR & it is still in business in 2021. McDonalds restaurants are his biggest contract. All of his 9 children (minus 1 who had down syndrome) attended GRCH & Calvin College. 

Can you guess who he is ?

 (Hint: Not Prince or DeVos or Van Andel or Meijer family). 

I'm a grandson 😁

Who am I

I  worked at Pine Rest Christian Hospital  for a while as a mental health worker in the Van Andel Center but also in other sections of the hospital and my father was also a employee here before me. 

 I had some good experiences here & a few bad ones- including losing a  patient - so mixed feelings- but  I think we helped a lot of people with the Christian emphasis on mental health.

I remember working with Brent Gates and Belinda Clarke and Frank Sisung the drummer who was married to the Boorsma girl,  and also several others who were fun to work with including Johnny King (great 70's bb 🏀 player at Calvin) .

I continue to pray4 🙏  the patients and the workers at Pine Rest some of whom are still there - who I worked with back in the 90s 👍.

Van 

Review of SF Bay Bridge Toll plaza

👎 👎  the Bay Bridge makes it so difficult for one time travelers to pay the toll especially if you're not going back to your mailing or residential address for a while you won't get the invoice 

...and if you don't have the invoice number in some cases such as mine  it's difficult to pay online with just a license plate number because in some cases if you bought a used car the previous owner may have already an account with that license plate

-so I can't log in -and so I need the invoice number -and nobody is there to open my mail for for me.  and if I call SF MTA on the phone 📞 they DON'T answer or make you stay on the line for literally hours to get through to anybody to pay your Bay Bridge toll. 

..and if you don't pay it within 30 days they assess a late fee -and I think that's exactly what they're trying to do is get a late fee to make it more expensive&  fill their coffers - a  very creepy system for one time travelers - aka tourists

Re vehicle #NoisePollution driving people crazy .

If i walk down the sidewalk & yell in peoples ears I'll prob be arrested for disturbing the peace, rightly so. its NOT free speech. 

Yet loud exhausts 🚗 🏍 R increasing everywhere. It disturbed 1 man so much recently in Battleground WA he shot (& killed) his neighbor.

  I ask police 🚔to start enforcing applicable laws  so that it DOESN'T drive more people CRAZY, literally. #NoisePollution

Re SF MTA parking enforcement San Francisco, 2021

I understand the city needs to have some parking rules and some way to enforce   otherwise it could be chaos but when you notice your parking citation is issued only a few minutes after the time begins, then you start to think that these are vexatious agents working for the city who actually delight in  issuing  parking tickets - like they're waiting for that moment to begin that they can start writing a ticket almost as if they're waiting at the end of the street drooling for the clock to start ticking so they can start writing tickets. 

 That's what makes you angry 😡- when they are lying-in-wait like a hunter waiting for the animal 🐅 to slay.   I got a parking ticket at 6:13 a.m. for a zone that starts at 6 a.m. and I had already had moved at 6:20 a.m.. It's like they intentionally chose my vehicle to start with. Sickening - that's the only thing i need a mask for in SF. 👎

And this is at a time when we are just barely emerging from the covid lockdown and all the financial hardships that it has created and now they add an  $83 parking citation to it.

Thanks a lot. NOT.  😠

Check out this review of Gary Bale Redi Mix Concrete on Google Maps

This guy is a CREEP 👎 - started honking at me to go faster - um, that's what a passing lane is for dude. I was driving the speed limit. Then he gave me this gesture. Glad I got his license plate and commercial identification so I can report him for aggressive driving.

https://goo.gl/maps/4C6rPsHXxrZ9Cvxe6 

Re highway 41 across the everglades . Cops 🚔 need to patrol it more .

JUST A WARNING TO TOURISTS re HIGHWAY 41:

  freaking stupid truck driver in a big rig tried to pass me on the two-way highway . I was driving the speed limit and as he passed there were cars coming and he was NOT going nearly fast enough to make a safe pass - so either he had to back off and return behind me but he wasn't going to do back down OR there literally would have been some sort of collision if I had not actually slammed my brakes to allow him in , and that's NOT the way you're supposed to pass . 

If you're NOT able to pass safely with enough speed you don't make the other driver slow down to allow you to pass- that was really BAD driving.  I wish I had gotten his license plate to report him.  he could have caused a serious deadly accident . 

And this road has a lot of wildlife and there are tourists driving up and down it going the speed limit , but there's locals & truckers who want to go faster. They've been down this road so many times they get angry behind you. It's very frustrating.

 I wish they'd go somewhere else if they don't like driving down this road.  I mean if you live in  Florida you got to get used to being around tourists otherwise you better move somewhere else. 

 And then I also saw a dead turtle 🐢 on the road which is another proof of  overly-aggressive driving - if you can't avoid a turtle crossing the road you know you're driving too fast , or alternatively they intentionally hit it and you're a sick puppy if you're TRYING to kill a turtle with your truck.  slow down . There was a dead alligator 🐊 as well

re Ecology Trail Presidio San Francisco

Nice hiking trails 👣 BUT there are TONS of local yokel parents hovering over their super precious kids & you represent "stranger danger" to them. It kind of ruins the vibe of taking a hike 🚶. One kid actually announced "stranger" as I passed by. Another kid said "What are you looking at?" as I turned the corner & they were on the path. Both kids sounded SCRIPTED as if they had practiced with their PERFECT parents. Wow. This is the future of America 🇺🇸 ?Kids trained to adore & worship their parents & be suspicious of everybody else . i recommend you do this hike once to get to know the area & then cross it off your list.

6/13/21 I was there: it rained ALL Saturday night &ALL Sunday day "Sunday marks the wettest day in Portland since February | "

 I was there: it rained ALL Saturday night &ALL Sunday day  "Sunday marks the wettest day in Portland since February | "

https://www.kptv.com/news/sunday-marks-the-wettest-day-in-portland-since-february/article_02e331a8-ccae-11eb-a588-93a49f5692bb.html 

Review of Wahclella Falls hike

It's a very nice Trail -pretty easy and a beautiful waterfall at the end.  however on the day I went there was a wedding at the waterfall - I couldn't believe it . which is  fine and beautiful but some of the wedding party (from utah) were a little bit suspicious of other hikers & they kind of took over the place as if it was theirs- which ruined the moment that you have when you arrive at the waterfall and want to enjoy it.

 Instead  they stare at you suspiciously and start picking up their stuff like you're going to steal it.  good grief -I'm a tourist too  you fools.  I'm just as uptight about people stealing my stuff as yours. DON'T be so damned self-righteous and then as I tried to make my way through this group of about 50 people one of the dudes said "Stop. My girlfriend is changing. She's topless". too much information . just say "please wait, she's changing" i get it. I'm NOT a neandarthal nor a thief. Treat others the way you wish to be treated and don't act so damned self-righteous. 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/pFiH3P4xWpPi4yMWA