After leaving Zion National Park, we decided to marathon it all the way as far as we can go and stop in Riverside, CA. We left Zion area pretty early, as we decided to trek via I-15 through Las Vegas, Barstow, Cajon Pass towards Riverside. As we're driving through the hot sweltering heat of the desert, we got stuck in traffic just south of Victorville, CA. Unbeknownst to us, a fire was starting to brew in Hesperia. We finally broke lose from this snail pace and headed towards Redlands where we camped for the night. As we hooked up Gertrude, I wanted to listen to the news... and to our surprise, we found out that we 'cheated death'.... we missed the fire jumping the freeway by 30 minutes!!!! Imagine that! Check out this these pics taken from the news cast. This is the 3rd time in our trip that we cheated death.... 1st time is when we escaped the tornadoes in Oklahoma, and the 2nd time is in Bryce Canyon when we crossed the street (using the crosswalk) and a woman driver did not see us and almost impaled both of us, especially Allan. It must have been my superwoman motion of extending my arm and hand out (talk to the hand!) which alerted the driver to stop and prevented Allan from becoming a hood ornament!!! HA..HA.... Yeah, sure! |
Not our time yet!! Thank you, Nick for looking out for us..... :-)