Pat and I are driving down to Southern California for a vacation. In our home life and on most of the route south there is no need for winter gear, but we do pass through 2 summits on the I5 where there could be snow.
As insurance I brought along some winter gear and clothes including chains for our vehicle. Watching the news tonight we are following the story about the search for Donner and the $million reward. The search is east of LA in the mountains and not far off our route
I have decided that we are going to go on a detour on our drive to Palm Springs and I will stop and don my winter gear and go off in search. Me and I suspect 20,000 other guys. I have a toque, winter boots and warm clothes and a stick. maybe I will find him and win the money. 20,000 to 1 is better odds than the lottery for a million
Pat has gone wimpy on me and said no way even after I promised better hotels on the remaining vacation if I catch him.
February 10, 2013
rbellis11
Views From Paradise 
1 responses to “Donner Search”
James
February 13th, 2013 at 13:09
‘Cool story, bro’ time: In my late teens / early twenties, my buddies and I would, on occasion, make reservations at restaurants using the name ‘Donner’ and then slightly overstate our numbers (say we had a group of 5 when there was only 4 of us, for example). We’d then chuckle to ourselves when the waiter would announce “Donner, party of five” and only the four of us were present. Sadly, I don’t think anyone outside our group ever got the joke…