On 11/29/2015 1:29 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 11/29/2015 01:24 AM, Micky wrote:
LOL. What would you have done if there was no place like the culdsac?

Shot the guy and buried him in the back yard? It would have been a long
way to back out.

Further off topic, I went up to a little alpine lake one spring on the
bike. There was a campground and a road all way but I hit drifted snow
about half a mile from the end. I parked the bike and walked the rest of
the way. When I came out, I noticed fresh tire tracks in the snow where
I'd parked the bike that made it about 25 yards into the drift. Trying
to break through drifts is sort of a spring time sport around here so I
didn't think much of it. Then I looked down the road and saw a pickup
towing a camp trailer slowly backing down. This is a steep, one lane,
not very good forest road with about a 500' drop off on one side. I had
just about enough room to squeeze by on the bike. The guy said 'This is
the stupidest thing I've ever done.' and I had to agree. He had about a
half mile to go before there was a place wide enough to turn around and
the sun was going down. There wasn't anything I could do to help so I
continued on.


Years ago I visited some friends in Trona, CA. They decided one day to
take me "off-roading" up a mountain nearby. At first it was just rough
road going uphill winding in all sorts of directions, but then the road
got rather narrow and a look off to one side looked like a million mile
drop off to someone like me who'd never gone off-roading up the side of
a mountain like that. I kept covering my eyes and mumbling "WE'RE gona
DIE!!!" The friends who took me on the ride thought I was pretty funny,
but at the time I didn't think it was funny at all. They hadn't given
me any warning about where we were going. When we finally got to a
plateau where there was a big enough place for the caravan we were in to
pull up next to each other it turned out to be this large sand dune that
was half way up this mountain. When we got out to take a look the view
was like nothing I'd EVER seen before. I could see this dry lake bed
below us and it looked like we were on top of the world.

Of course, my friends had made the trip so many times they knew every
turn, dip, and danger spot, but for me although it scared the life out
of me I can honestly say it was the most memorable site I've ever seen
or been to. After we came down from that mountain, we drove a ways to
another popular site where there were these sand dunes, I think it was
Death Valley. We got out and walked a ways on the dunes, and took
photos. It was amazing how far distances actually were compared to what
our brains thought was just a few miles... it was actually more like 20
miles.

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Maggie