Originally posted by fdt
I posted this some years ago about a trip we made to Cañon de Guadalupe and how we saved one life but lost another who died in Simone's arms.
On May 04 2004 we took a trip to Cañon de Guadalupe, fdt, Mrs. ferna, and the kids in one Saturn VUE and James and his daughter in another Saturn VUE,
we wanted to try them out, both brand new, the plan was to leave Tijuana early, but ended up leaving till about 10, we reached the Ca?on de Guadalupe
exit at about noon or so and into the Salada we went, there was some pavement then, maybe for about a few miles in and then the dirt started, about 4
miles in we see at a distance a man walking, as we get closer he starts waving at us but not very energetic as if his arm weighed a ton, remember it's
around 12:30 and it's 109 farenheit according to our thermometer in the mirror and this guy is just walking twards us. Were all what the? and we stop
and the guy is foaming in the mouth and sais ayudenme por favor, immediatly we start asking what is he doing walking in the dessert (he had a digital
camera hanging from his neck and was well dressed but dusty). As we continue asking and giving him gatorade / water / soda, we sat him in front of the
air conditioner (the guy was dying when we found him), he starts to compose himself and starts telling us that they thought they whent to far and in
turning bak got stuck in the sand and that they waited and waited and no one would drive by so they decided to walk to the hwy and that his friend was
back there cause she couldn't make it any further. I'm all what do you mean back there, there is someone else? So we get back in our cars and there we
go full speed and after quite a way we spot someone laying on the middle of the road. Were all Oh my God! Oh poop! En la madre! We get there, get out
of the car and it's a young laidy just laying there navy blue skirt, white shirt, navy blue sport coat. I start moving her in desperation, Simone
tells me get out of the way and starts mouth to mouth, listens to her heart, sais she still has a heart beat, I say lets get her in the car fast!
Rapido, rapido! I start emptying the back of our VUE of fire wood, ice chests, transfer the tents, sleeping bags etc from the back of my friends VUE
and we get her into the back of his vahicle and off they go to the hwy, James his daughter the guy, and my wife with the lady trying to resucitate
her. I stayed with the kids, loaded up some stuff, left behind some other stuff and followed them. when we got to the hwy I'm all now what? so I head
twards Mexicali. I spot them on the side of the road by one of the emergency phones and there is a white pick p truck aproaching them, the ones that
work on the roads. kids stay in the car, I go to the other car, my wife is crying, the girl's dead. The road guys call the caseta de cobro and 2 more
trucks arrive and they call an ambulance. By this time Simone (Mrs. ferna) is getting really peeed off at these people that work on the roads and
don't even have a first aid kit, or nothing and are just staring at the dead girl and she's all but the guy needs help he's all dehidrated. The
ambulance arrives and the same story, they go to the dead girl and pay no attention to the guy. Finaly they cover up the girl w/a white sheet and tend
to the guy. Remember the dead girl is inside the back of my friends car. so now they say that they have to wait for the federal because of the dead
girl. When the federalde caminos arrives we realize the hole thing that happened and all of the possible complications (dead girl in car? Who done
it). We start explaning to the federal and tell him the whole story. he gets on his cellular and is talking to someone, he goes to his patrol car and
radios, then another cellular call and then another and another. He comes back to were we are by the ambulance and then to my friends car, uncovers
the girs face and sais to the ambulance guys I don't think she's dead, he orders us all to follow him, that we were going to the hospital in Mexicali
to get an electrocardiograma to verify that the girl was dead. So here we go caravaning, the federal, my friend, with dead girl in back, the
ambulance, me and the kids, the three hwy trucks. Boy it seemed like a long way, we whent all the way downtown MXL to the Hospital General, drove into
the emergency drive, we all get out, it looked like they were already expecting us, a young doctor goes to the back of my friends car and verifies
that the girl is dead, the federal orders them to get her out of the car and get an electrocardiograma for verification. They all look at him like
he's wierd or something but obey and get the girl out and place her in a wheelchair, and could'nt get her straight enough to sit (she was stiff) and
they rolled her into the hospital. the federal callls us and sais give me your information so we do that and then he sais "You need to hurry and move
your cars because they are blocking the emergency driveway".
My friend and I realized tat that was our queue, out get out of jail card, our ticket to leave. We now knew what all those call were for back in the
hwy.
So there we go back to Cañon de Guadalupe, this time we took distances, from the road to were we found the guy, from the guy to the girl's location
and pick up our stuff and then we whent for 9.8 miles and found the truck stuck in the sand, brand new, with a sign on the sides that said CESPM. They
were both engineers for the water company on theire way to do a survey at a ranch and they realized that they had gone to far, stoped and tried to
return and the truck got stuck, they had no radio, no water and no cel phone(it wouldnt have worked anyway). Anyway we got out of our cars and we all
whent to the truck like something was calling us to look at it, it was the missing link to the story, our experience, the kid's real live dead person,
it was reality, lessons to be learned, time, meditation, prayer, thankfulness, and reality. Ok now so we went on our way, by this time the sun has
gone down so we want to hurry so Arturo is still awake when we get there. Here is were it really got weird half a mile in tward the canyon the road
bends to the right slightly and as you finish that bend ther was a ranch with trees, windmill, water sprinklers, people. Now that was wierd, if theyd
only gone the other direction.when we got back home, I started going into the la cronica's (Mexicali's newspaper) web page and found out that her name
was Rosario, she was 26 years old, etc.l My wife was reading all the stories they wrote about the incident and she, against all logic wrote to one of
the reporters to tell our story, and they even printed it. I was kind of nervouse that they might find us but nothing happened, the girls mother ended
up emailing mi wife and thanking her for all she did for her daughter.
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