That happened to me once in BB, only I had tools. 7 flats & blowouts!
Jeep Wagoneer. Tubes inside broken tubeless tires worked for short
distances. I cut up the worst blowout and made an inside-the-tire
patch to make the tubes work longer. Finally at Study Butte I bought
two of the best used tires he had for $40, and that got me back to
Dallas. Replaced the bad Michelins (10K miles on them) with BFG's and
been using them ever since.
- Pete
On Sep 21, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Bill Bentley wrote:
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
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