Just spent two days in Yuma, Arizona, doing an archaeological survey with one of my employees in 114 degree heat. Because we have several jobs going on, I drove my personal F-250 Superduty. Yesterday, halfway through the survey while trying to turn around on a dirt road, my truck found hidden deep sand and it went down. I gave it four tries of digging the rear wheels out with my hands, putting my floor mats under the rear tires, and some pieces of wood my employee found but no go. That took an hour and I shredded the floor mat that was under the right rear tire. I finally gave up and called AAA for a tow. I have RV towing, so there wouldn't be a charge. The idiot dispatcher sent out a two-wheel drive tow truck to pull out my two-wheel drive diesel truck out of deep sand. She had asked me if my truck was four-wheel drive and I said no, if it were four-wheel drive I wouldn't be stuck! I told her to send a BIG tow truck. It took an hour for the first truck to arrive. He wouldn't even come down the road after looking at it because he said he would sink (we were visible from the highway where he was). I asked him to please get a tow truck that could haul us out. He said there was a truck in Yuma, which was 25 miles away. He called them and it was $300 to come get me. I said get them out here! It took 90 minutes for the other guy to come out and he did pull my truck out, but it wasn't easy.
The worrisome part besides the heat, was that we were less than a mile from the Mexico border. There was no way I was leaving my truck there abandoned. Fortunately, we had plenty of water and we're used to the heat.
The good part was that when we got to the hotel, they had two free drinks per room during happy hour. So, the two beers kept me going until we could go over and get margaritas at the restaurant.
The topper was I woke up this morning and discovered that there had been a mosquito in my hotel room last night. I'm very reactive to mosquito bites, and just recovered from about 100 bites that I got in Mexico. Sigh......
The worrisome part besides the heat, was that we were less than a mile from the Mexico border. There was no way I was leaving my truck there abandoned. Fortunately, we had plenty of water and we're used to the heat.
The good part was that when we got to the hotel, they had two free drinks per room during happy hour. So, the two beers kept me going until we could go over and get margaritas at the restaurant.
The topper was I woke up this morning and discovered that there had been a mosquito in my hotel room last night. I'm very reactive to mosquito bites, and just recovered from about 100 bites that I got in Mexico. Sigh......
