Josh Duhamel

We had to wash dishes in the lake, shower in the lake.

It was like homesteading.

It was like homesteading for the first 10 years.

I loved it.

That's awesome.

Because I was constantly into pickaxes, and it was shovels, and it was clearing little spaces.

I remember I found this little area down by the water that was all sand, but it had all these dead logs and all the kind of overgrown.

And I just knew that if I could clear this off, we'd have this beautiful little beach.

And sure enough...

That became Axle Beach.

My oldest son, I named it after him.

And that's where the kids just run wild now.

It's all cleared up and it's beautiful now, but it was, you know, a lot of just... And then I got a tractor and I got a skid steer and then it got to go, you know, we started moving.

Because then you can pop stumps and rocks and clear things much quicker.

But for the first 10 years, it was literally like homesteading.

And I loved it.

Because I'd leave LA, I'd go out there and I'd spend two weeks and just work on whatever my little project was.

And over the years now, it's become like a really cool little spot that we just, you know, my family loves it.

My parents, my sisters, my wife's family, they all come out.

We just like make the most memories out there.