The Chronicles of John Trammell

     Jane always has to have a big birthday event every year.  She has had a few birthday's in Vegas with her co-worker friends.  I was never able to go do to money and/or other commitments/school.  This year, she pushed and pushed for me to go, even though I really had no money to afford a trip to Vegas.  She even threatened to not talk to me for quite awhile if I did not go.  I gave in to peer pressure, and I went for the weekend.  Of course, it is hard to predict what events can occur when going to Vegas.  I went up to Vegas for Jane's birthday from Friday, September 20 to Sunday, September 22.        I was bored, and wanted to avoid the Friday Vegas traffic, so I drove on up before the others planned to be there.  Jane has a co-worker that has access to a time share, and it was planned for us to stay at that time share.  At first, it was thought the time share was at the Tropicana Hotel on the Vegas Strip, so that was where I headed.  As I arrived at the hotel, Jane had l

     Jane, Scotty, and I had made plans to go hiking up the South Fork Trail to the South Fork "Slushy" Meadows, the headwaters of the Santa Ana River, in the San Gorgonio Wilderness.  The original plan was to hike on Thursday, August 29, but we were in the middle of monsoon season.  Massive thunderheads built up on top of Mount San Bernardino and San Gorgonio.  I knew that would be extremely unsafe, so I recommended that we postpone the hike until the next week.  Jane and Scotty tried to convince me to go on the hike anyway, for it will be a intense hike to deal with a storm, but I refused.  Instead, we hiked to Heart Rock (which was extremely disappointing because no water was flowing, and bugs everywhere) and then walked around Lake Gregory in Crestline.              A week later, on Thursday, September 5, we planned to hike if weather permitted.  We chose a Thursday because that is the only day of the week that Scotty has off from work.  The morning of the hike seemed p