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| I have found that one glitch can set off a whole series of unfortunate events...
Had a trip planned with my dad, nephew and son to Canada in 2008. All packed up the night before and ready to go. Were to drive in one shot to the camp 2 hours over the border and be fishing by the next morning...
Got up early to take off and before pulling the boat out of the garage, had to trim the motor down on my Ranger Reata.. trim was dead. Went and got jumper cables, still no luck. Went to the store and got a charger... still didn't charge. Now after about 2 hours of screwing around, decide to get a new battery. First store was out, second store had one...installed and off we go now 3 1/2 hours late.
When your traveling with older people or younger kids, it doesn't always make sense to do a straight thru 10 hour trip. We were going to get in late, so I called the camp and said we would get through customs and instead stay in Fort Frances that night. Get up and drive to the camp in the morning and still be fishing by 11:00 or so.
So we stayed over, drove out early the next morning. While driving North out of Fort Frances straight East into the rising sun, the Semi-sized logging truck behind me didn't see me put on my signal to turn left because of the glare and he decided to pass me just as I turned. I can still hear the collision and crumpling of metal...
To this day, I don't know how the 4 of us in my Jeep and the truck driver himself survived that accident. I still get flashbacks, but miraculously we are all okay. The more I have thought about the turn of events, it all started when that battery went dead and delayed our trip 3 hours, causing us to stay over and take off in the early morning sun.
But who knows, maybe if we would have driven to the camp that night we might have hit a moose and ended up dead... you just don't know. I guess the moral of the story is when a typical routine gets thrown off and sets a series of other actions in motion...slow down, think, how will this affect other actions, decisions, etc... Get there safely, fishing is secondary..
Edited by smalljaw 4/8/2013 3:29 PM
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