Posted on 04/10/2018 1:57:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
It is an Indian name. Asian not American. Their first names are a big clue. Like Sandeep.
>> Hopefully, they didn’t go off the beaten path and inadvertently stumble upon one of the many Mexican cartel marijuana growing areas.<<
Most people have no clue about how extensive the breakdown of our culture and the resulting lawlessness really is, especially in California with its thousands of illegal criminal aliens from Mexico and Central America, and also from Asia. And the same breakdown and lawlessness is occurring in the upper midwest where thousands of Muslims are in the process of destroying the culture there. And the same is now true in many other areas of the country. This disintegration has been caused by very adverse changes in our immigration laws initiated in the early 1960s by Sen. Ted Kennedy and his fellow Democrats.
My bet would be in descending order:
1: Wandered into a Mexican Mafia (wetback) growing area and were killed for their trouble.
2: Drove off the road in one of our steep canyons up here and wound up in the bottom of one of our rivers.
3: Bigfoot ate’em.
And the jarhead wins on entry number 2! Turns out they did go off the road in a steep canyon and wind up in a river!
Spent most of my younger life out in the southern U.S. deserts (used to be a reptile collector), always shocked the hell out of me the numbers of people who had no idea of how dangerous those places could be.
The Mojave, the Great Basin, the Sonoran, the Chihuahuan, all great places to visit, but only if you know what your doing and carry plenty of spare parts and water.
I don’t even recall how many people I had to help out of some really bad situations.
Pulled people out of drift sand, and changed a lot of tires.
The two I remember most are, one time I found and old couple (they were in their 60’s, back then they were old to me) out on a dirt road between Baker and Death Valley (husband said they wanted to take a scenic route), their fan clutch broke and overheated their car.
I was driving a GM 4 wheeler at the time (they were in a Caddy) and had a spare on board, so I fixed them up and filled their radiator.
They had no water, no blankets, no spare oil or fuel, no food with them.
Followed them back to Baker and told them to stay on the paved road.
The other one was 6 Swedish tourists (yes they were all young ladies, yes they all spoke english), they were coming out of Stovepipe Wells headed towards Panamint Springs.
Boiled every drop of water out of their car on the upgrade out of the valley.
They had 2 bottles of water between them in their car (the little bottles that you sip out of) and they had been running their AC on the way up the grade.
Had to wear gloves to pop the hood, it was 114 in the sun that day.
Took almost 4 gallons to get the block and radiator topped off, told them to head for 395 and don’t use the AC, open the windows if they got to hot.
I have noticed that people from the urban areas and especially foreigners have no idea of what they are doing in harsh country.
They all think that help is just around the corner and don’t realize that it is probably a hundred miles away on a road that probably only gets 2 cars a week on a busy week.
Those places aren’t Europe and they aren’t LA county, where if you go five miles you find a supermarket or a cop.
Where I grew up you could go a hundred miles in a straight line and just find more sand or more trees.
Weather Channel just said their car apparently went off the main road and rolled over into a river. No sinister or supernatural forces, just a car accident. RIP.
You’re right - I had something in mind but I couldn’t sweep it out of there. That IS right....
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Missing-Santa-Clarita-Family-479327963.html
Latest update I could find. A report of a similar vehicle, but no confirmation yet of the vehicle and/or any of the family found.
I do not like mountain roads.. Lived in CA for 50+ years and never got used to them. Hated the one through Redlands up into Big Bear. When our daughter was little she threw up all the way up and back when we went up to the snow. When we got down below, I told my husband to stop at a gas station so I could clean her up and she said, “I’m ok now, Mommy - I don’t have to throw up anymore.” I think I had her sit in front 1/2 way down.
Ever been on the road to Sonora with the switchbacks? We traveled on that from Sacramento a bit and I’m not sure what the highway was but it was awful. I had a great aunt (only relative in CA) who lived up there and what a road!!
LOL
Like “it was right on the tip of my brain?”
I get that more and more these days. :)
“If anyone here on FR has ever heard of David Paulides, now is the time to ask him or watch his Youtube vids.”
I’ve read a couple of them. Spooky stuff. The woods can get really quiet at times.
“...it is Science FICTION.”
It is, until it...isn’t. Stranger things, Horatio.
They all think that help is just around the corner and don’t realize that it is probably a hundred miles away on a road that probably only gets 2 cars a week on a busy week.
You are absolutely correct! I live in the Great Basin Desert and a few years ago, I ran into a British couple with a nine month old baby who wanted to drive their rental car from Big Pine on Hwy 395 into Death Valley along a dirt road in Summer! I have driven that rugged Jeep road and told them in no uncertain terms what danger they would be putting themselves into. They stubbornly insisted on going that route anyway. I then told them that if they were lucky, someone would find their skeletons in the Fall. I don't believe they attempted the trip after that, but I'm not sure.
As Gordon Lightfoot put it...
... when the green dark forest was too silent to be real ...
I have been in a few places like that. I found it to sit somewhere between spooky and magical.
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