By Gary Meyer and Patric Hedlund

Last July we told the story of Randy Whitbread, a 59 year-old man who was camping under the Monterey Trail bridge with his girlfriend in a tent.

Whitbread suffered health problems in 2013 that led to the loss of his job and then his lines of support, leaving him homeless for about a year and a half. During our interview in July he seemed positive about his prospects, and seemed to feel he would be out from under the bridge one day soon.

That day came on…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

Above: Randy Whitbread (right) is helped by his friend, Dave, to move out from under the Monterey Trail bridge on Thursday, Nov. 19.

Right: Whitbread loads his suitcase into the motor home he will now call ‘home.’

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This is part of the November27, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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