Paddy's Got A Gun

You have to substitute 'paddy' for the Aerosmith song 'Jaime's got a Gun' - and you will hear what was in my head at the time I was shooting this - hahahah

OH YEAH - - my man brought a gun and I wasn't happy about it - until as we were driving late in the darkness to our remote destination we saw a caravan of cars blocking the dirt, bumpy road waving us down. I am NOT lying to you when we both thought it could be a trick and they can kidnap and eat us or (at the very least) keep us under the floorboards like that horrific episode with the inbred people of XFiles.

So with gun on his lap when we approached the people we found out it was a professor from Cal State Fullerton and about 30 geology students who had caravaned to the Rocks and one of the trucks on the way out dropped its carburetor, I think. (Scary). Although they were there about an hour, and we had to wait for them to repair as we couldn't pass - - they DID have a boy or two who knew about cars and were able to repair it - Most impressive!

We went along and then took out the gun another time when almost at midnight we saw a lone truck miles away slowly making its way towards us. Now, at this point WE had even arrived and travelled late on that desolate, dangerous road. To see another coming at that hour was a little curious. So out came the gun again. This time it turned out to be a group of Russians (accents and all) - E was in heaven - - led by a very knowledgeable Russian young woman who was driving the truck and stopped to chat with P and I at the fire while the others went out searching in the dark for the racing rocks and their trails. She was very cool and gave us insight that we would get moonlight around midnight - which we did. We couldn't believe that group went out there in the pitch dark with only flashlights to try and see the rocks - nearly impossible to find in the dark with so many stolen or washed away this season, not to mention you can't even do it justice seeing it with only a flashlight. I give them props for making the 2-hour journey from the main road to come out for an hour to search. But she said they had spent the last couple days hiking and seeing everything else and were leaving in the morning so this was their last chance to see the rocks so they had to come out even in the middle of the night. Whew - -that's appreciation!

So here is P the next morning - we had left the Playa and were heading slowly back to the main road and on to other sights. Kids - Don't try this at home - -