I use Amateur Radio... Stranded with 2 flats along the 1/2 way point near the "Domingas Trail" along the River Road in Big Bend National Park ...It was a Spring break weekend in 2000 and not one vehicle drove by us... I used my Ham Radio mobile set up ( 100 watts of 40 meters) to call for help to a fellow Amateur Radio Operator in the Dallas, Texas area who was also mobile....He phoned the gas station in Study Butte and they came out and found us several hours later and brought a couple of wheels from a Nissan... (I had a Toyota 4 runner) magically enough the wheel fit... I hobbled very slowly into Study Butte and got my 2 flats repaired for a sum total of $87.00 for the flats and about 6 hours of these very nice two men's time, gas, & wear and tear... I bought 4 new tires when I got back home, a repair kit, portable compressor, hand pump, tire changing tools, along with another full size wheel and tire... You know second time shame on me deal... Link is to a picture of my young family having a unplanned picnic in the desert of the Bend...(We had a good time in spite of it all and it is now a family story we tell.) http://www.caver.net/images/hnc-013s.jpg
The second link is to the fellow Amateur Radio Operator Bill Muxworthy, a IRS agent by trade who helped me that I would meet in person a week later at a swapmeet. The Picture was staged since he was an IRS agent and he had fun with it for his friends back home. http://www.caver.net/images/hnc-024s.jpg ----- Original Message ----- Deleted -----
