Bagdad, CA: Route 66 Ghost Town and Site of a Tragic Military Death in the Desert
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- Опубліковано 12 бер 2024
- Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #780
Date of adventure: 2/23/24
There's not much left of the old ghost town of Bagdad, CA -- just one tree, a few graves in the old cemetery... and a memorial to a fallen serviceman who suffered one of the most tragic deaths in recent military history.
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One more piece of history that most of us just drive past without stopping. I swear, California and Nevada need to employ you as a historical laureate. The west is filled with so much history that the majority of us would never know without you educating us. Thank you a million times over.
You hoist yourself up by the ladder you see on the side of the car
Letterboxing is a much older hobby than geocaching. It was started back in the 1800’s in England. You need your own rubber stamp when you go letterboxing. Once you find a letterbox, you leave a stamp mark of your stamp in the journal and sign it, and then you stamp the letterbox stamp in your own journal that you keep. There are letterboxing sites online that give directions and hints where different letterboxes are hidden. It’s a wonderful hobby. Gets you out in the fresh air and leads you on a mystery every time trying to find the letterbox.
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Hey Sarah, we love your videos! Watch them with our grandkids but do not like the reefer info. Sorry but kids do not need to hear that crap!
Give us a break . It is legal in most places in the U.S. now . Maybe your grandkids need to watch videos in their age group . BTW , I do not smoke pot !! @@ramblin_wreck
This is the very first time I have heard anything like this too. Need to be aware of these when I do Geocaching and keep a stamp with me.
Hey everyone, I’m a train engineer and I’ll actually be headed through there today. I make that “run” (we call it) and go through Bagdad, CA in one direction or the other just about every day. That train you were touching we call a “rail train”. It deposits new pieces of rail as maintenance work for the tracks. I’ve heard a little of this story about the Marine before, we all know the 29 Palms Marine training station and I can assure you, absolutely, a soldier who would’ve hiked to the tracks who have been reported and called in to the train dispatchers office alerting authorities. A sad story for sure. I’ll see Bagdad in a new way, thanks for the adventure 🚂🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
From what I recall….He hiked nearly 20 ish miles without water from deep inside the base to where the memorial is…..where he perished and only a few remains were found….less than a mile from the highway and such. If he had made it, he probably would’ve been picked up by hitchhiking……so close and so sad.
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R u a ndls mustang from like 1983
That story about L.Cpl. Rother is so sad. I remember back in the 80's, flying out to 29 palms with my Marine Corps C-130 squadron and doing unimproved runway landings out in the desert. We were in the middle of nowhere as well. Luckily, we didn't forget anyone there. We all flew back together and slept in our own racks that night. R.I. P. LCpl. Rother You died too early..."Semper Fidelis" Say hello to "Chesty" Puller for us...Ooh-Rah! Thanks WonderHussy!
I was actually there in the same CAX when he went missing.
I remember that incident. I was a paramedic at the time and thought to myself... how in the hell did they not do a head count. Personnel accountability is job 1. That was drilled into us in virtually all deployments, exercises and training I had been through in my 44 year career.
Was anyone held accountable? Sargents? CO? How did Leadership not do a headcount? ~ A snafu right out of a ‘Few Good Men’.
Water is important especially if you're in the desert.
Wow my dad was stationed there , one of best bases we lived at growing up. This was before that happened. I hope that the gut in charge got in trouble 😢
I'm already emotional today as it is since today is my wife that is deceased and my wedding anniversary 😢 but to hear this sad story of this young marine was heart breaking. Salute and Rest In Paradise Lance! 🙏
I was a Marine stationed at 29 Palms. I can distinctly remember seeing Baghdad on the map. It was just off the base and I always wanted to go see it. That itch is now scratched. I was actually there when Rother got lost. They didn't even realize that they lost him until the armory insisted that they had a missing rifle. He joined the unit in the field and no one remembered to pick him up from a road guard position. Sad story but the last item he dropped was his rifle.
You know a lot of people including myself are hearing about marine Rother for the first time..and I am sure there are a lot of good people out there who would like to show respect to this fine young man…so I don’t think giving out the location of his memorial would be a bad thing. I am in tears over this..I never heard of this and this is very sad.
Sad story. What you said about staying in one place is absolutely correct! Don't try to get back. ADMIT YOURE LOST and work on calming down and making do. When going to a remote location, inform others of the time you get there, how long you plan to stay and time of estimated departure.
If possible, go with a group. Safe to all. Thanks WH.
I like the fact you say the names of those posted at the Graves, even if their markers get destroyed this video will live on, it's a renewed record that will last for many years later, thanks for posting I watch your channel all the time
How sad. The poor parents! Makes me that much more aware of taking caution on hikes anywhere!!
I'm sure the parents weren't told the truth. He died during training exercises
it's great to see you
The lieutenant did not follow protocol by doing role call. Nor does the Marine Corps allow Land Nav courses to be run without proper protocols... the officer was General court martialed, decommissioned and imprisoned for dereliction of duty.
92 UCMJ
Miss Hussy, you are THE most beautiful wild flower of all!
Well said
Fascinating history. You never know what you'll find!!!!
The officer should have ordered the NCO to do a head count before the bus left. The NCO should have known to do that without orders. Being hot and tired is no excuse. Protocols have been in place for years to prevent things like this from happening. Terrible to imagine what that soldier went through because of stupid mistakes by his leaders.
As always, great video Wonderhussy. 😻❤👍
Is it a stretch to suspect 'code red' or is that something you only hear about in the movie 'a few good men'? There could be evil intent behind all this...as you say too many protocols to prevent such a horrible tragedy from happening in the first place...
I think it's a stretch. The officer and NCO were likely just tired and wanted to get back to the base. Not an excuse. Forget protocols for a minute. To be a good officer everyone under your command must come first. The soldiers all eat first, all get to sleep first. They are ALL accounted for before you rest. This was not a good officer and I'm really disappointed in the NCO.
I don't think it was done through malice but instead through stupidity. Both officer and NCO should have gotten dishonorable discharges for what that soldier went through.@@NipponThunderBolt
@@Ranthra1 yeah...i'm just raising suspicion for the sake of it. Coincidently wonderhussy mentions a lieutenant Dawson in her video...in the movie(a few good men) there is a lance corporal Dawson who was being charged with manslaughter for the death of pfc. santiago...just wondering again, how close do a group of men testify to the truth?(the guy who gets picked to go out alone while the rest of group stays together...is usually the odd man out)...yeah...probably a stretch🙄(its a wonderhussyism-could be this, could be that)
Hi SJ, another video that really makes a person think, when u are having a bad day- you are not!! RIP lance corporal!!--- I remember when that happened ,it made the newspapers nationwide. You have given the story, a excellent presentation. Best wishes,be safe, gg
Always very interesting content WH, Thank You!
Always nice to log on to a new video from you
AMEN 😍😍😍
Those are cars that haul overseas shipping containers…usually double stacked…yep.. that’s a Beechcraft AT 7 Navigator.
@@bisleyblackhawk1288 - The aircraft atop the plane crash memorial is actually a storied, and much more abundant B-25 Mitchell medium bomber. B-25s took off from an aircraft carrier (Hornet, I believe) and bombed Tokyo during The Doolittle Raid in 1942. It was also the plane flown by airmen in the book/movie Catch 22. There probably wasn't anything available for the AT-7, so they figured a B-25 would be a good enough substitute.
In 1988, I was stationed at March Air Force Base in Moreno Vally CA (just two hours west of 29 Palms by vehicle) and don't remember hearing of the Marine's disappearance.
Thanks to Wonderhussy for showing these fliers and Lance Corporal Rother the respect they deserve and sharing their story.
Another interesting slice of history. Outcast gravesites usually mean outcast races. Old Erie Canal Cemeteries often have outcast Irish worker graves off to the side. Some are marked. Marine Rother was one badass to hike as far as he did. ❤
I remember that event. I was stationed at Camp Pendleton at that time. 😢
Thank You for Another Good Video! 😊
It’s worse than that: Dawson forgot where he’d put Rother, worse, he and two sargents responsible didn’t mention he was missing
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Letterboxing is similar to Geocaching but finders collect those stamps in their books and leave their own in the letterbox logbook. Those train cars are carrying rails for the railroad.
Thank you very much for the heads up !!!! Interesting !!!!
Bagdaddies?
❤ very cool , WonderHussy !
...and an extra Commodation for keeping the Lance Cpr Memory alive ...
You always keep showing up at the places I've been , I was a bartender at Stovepipe Wells in 1987
I was a bartender at The Overland Bar in Carlin NV. Back in 70s.
I saw a drinker in both
@@IEchuckie I never realized, saw spelled backwards is WAS!
Best travel/story telling channel! Thanks Wonderhussy!
Such a sad story, rest in peace.
MORAL of the lesson: Always, Always bring a canteen with you! I think one of those soldiers did a podcast of him.
Made my day Sarah, thanks!😊😅
Missed a few of your videos, time to catch up, and again, thank you for a great narrative of historical Bagdad and the incident with Lance Corporal Jason Rother …. Sad but not forgotten, thanks to you Sarah…
Look close, you'll see the train cars are loaded with LONG lengths of rail. Steel rail is flexible enough to be transported in very long lengths like this, in order to avoid so many joints when it's installed.
I was curious thanks for that little fact!!
Thanks for sharing this completely useless information, but extremely interesting info.🍸
Yep, its a called "ribbon train". When they are replacing track rail, a strip gets pulled out of the back of the cars as it goes down the track and lays it on the ties. Then its already in position for the crew to pull up the old rail and move the new rail into place.
Women looking at machinery (even simple ones) and not having a clue. Sort of a secret pleasure?
This is known as a ribbonrail train. These rails are in quarter mile lengths. rather than ten old 39 foot lengths of yore. Ribbonrail requires a lot less maintenance.
Letter boing is a legit treasure hunt. It's one of the tools as used to get my kids out hiking when they were young....
For letterboxing you make your own stamp usually out of a pink eraser carving whatever you want to make it your own and go with an ink pad to locate them. You can stamp your stamp in their book and stamp their stamp in your book.
So sad and senseless. God bless our men and women in the military🇺🇲
Great video today
Your video was cool..
What a touching story.... 😢..... R.I.P. Lance corporal Rother💔🙏🏽💔 .... Thank You for an amazing emotional story.... Be safe Wonderhussy❣️
Growing up in SW New Mexico ( near Separ, NM) we lived north of the railroad tracks with just one access road leading to the ranch. Invariably, a train would stop and block the road (usually as we returned from our weekly trip into Deming NM) resulting in the entire family having to wait anywhere from 1-2 hrs for the train to move before we could make it home. Everyone made the best of it, my dad would drop the tailgate and my mom would make sandwiches while us kids put pennies under the train wheels (which we would try and find later) Love your channel Sarah, thank you for all your hard work
Thank you for all you do.
Cool episode.
Interesting but very sad!
I like the battles scars on your ride , lift and everything is great. Happy trails.
Another great video by Wonderhussey!
Thank you for a very interesting video.
Very interesting story about Jason Rother, very sad however. I feel so bad for his family.
Hey Wonderhussy, u crack me up when u say the federal government 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Love it. 👍✌️
I remember this story around 1988 while training at Ft. Irwin CA at the National Training Center. His squad leader should have known about it right there and then before leaving the training area. Accountability is paramount in any military organization.
as an engineer for many years I'll state that no theres no way to stop the train to pick up a stranded person ,yet the local authorities would be immediately notified , via an expertly executed series of "toots" from my smokestack .
Yes sir your right
Soo line Engineer here.
I’d call the dispatcher to use the phone for… fire, wreck, etc.
So agree with your comment.
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And that train is a rail carrier, the flats carry ribbon rail.
No boxes.
Hate to ride that.
That’s comforting to know , the next time I’m stranded in the middle of the desert😮 .
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I guess it would be too dangerous to stop i don't know how many miles it takes to stop a freight train and then the locomotive driver has to get back to you again .
What about the next freight train it could crash .
No the better solution is to honk the horn as they have been tought.
SARAH JUST BEFORE I LISTEN TO YOUR POSTING JUST NOW I GOT BACK FROM DOING A LITTLE BIT OF SHOPPING 🛍️ TO BUY YOU SOME NEW BEDDING I WAS ABLE TO GET TWO OUT OF THREE PIECES BUT DARN IT THE BEDSPREAD I WANTED TO GET YOU WITHOUT A STOCK AT THE WALMART ON RICE ST. IN HOUSTON TEXAS DEFINITELY ILL BE LOOKING FOR IT AT OTHER WALMART'S BEFORE SENDING IT TO YOU BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOUR ADDRESS # IS ON YOUR STREET IN TECOPA . DEARLY BELOVED.
I REMEMBER YEARS AGO EATING AT A BAGHDAD CAFE ? RESTAURANT BUT IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN IN BAGHDAD
THE STORY ABOUT BEING STUCK ON ONE SIDE OF THE RAILROAD TRACK SOUNDS LIKE YOUR FRIEND PLANNED IT LIKE THE STORIES OF CONVENIENTLY RUNNING OUT OF GASOLINE SO I FELLOW CAN HAVE AN EXCUSE TO GET INTO A GIRL'S PANTS 🩳
BUT I'M OLD ENOUGH AND YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH NOT WORRYING ABOUT BEING VIRGINS I WOULD FORGIVE ALL YOUR AFFAIRS AND ALL YOUR FORMER BOYFRIENDS TO JUST BE THE LAST ONE YOU TRULY WANTED MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THIS LIFE 🧬 AND THEREFORE EVER NEEDED MORE 191 ELSE IN THIS LIFE. I WOULD BE SO HONORED ☺️❤️ FOR EVEN JUST YOUR WONDERFUL WORK ETHIC YOU DESERVE MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE BUT YOU ARE SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT YOU HAVE GONE FROM A INTROVERTED SIGMA TO A ALPHA SIGMA AND I LOVE HOW YOU TREAT PEOPLE LIKE THE JAPANESE DO CONCERNED ABOUT NOT OFFENDING ANYONE AND KEEPING YOUR ENVIRONMENT AROUND YOU CLEAN
THE STORY OF THE MARINE COULD BE A FORM OF FRAGGING WHAT HIS FELLOW MARINES MIGHT HAVE BELIEVED TO BE A F**G OR WHATEVER KIND OF HO S. A L
BACK IN AGAIN WHAT EVER THEY CALLED IT ABOUT PERVERTS DON'T ASK DON'T TELL WITH BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON I THINK IT WAS KIND OF IN THAT TIME FRAME 🪟
WHOLE GENERATIONS LIKE YOURSELF NOW HAVE BEEN CONDITIONED TO GO AGAINST THE BIBLE THE QURAN AND EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE BUDDHIST AND MAYBE THE HINDERS TO ACCEPT PERVERTS AND I WONDER WHY THE WEATHER HAS TURNED SO BAD 😞
BUT IF YOU KNOW ME YOU KNOW THAT I DON'T JUDGE GOD DOESN'T JUDGE JESUS DOESN'T JUDGE HE LETS PEOPLE JUDGE THEMSELVES AND THEN SHOWS THEM WHERE THEY WENT WRONG BEFORE THEY KICK THEM INTO THE FIERY PIT .
DAVID ADAM GRENIS
CURRENTLY AT
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APARTMENT 12 106
HOUSTON TEXAS 77005
PEOPLE MISS THAT IT'S THE STANDARD THAT GOD SET UP IN HIS WORD OF THAT HE MUST AND WE MUST BE FAITHFUL TO THAT JUDGES AND IS VISIBLE THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE LIKE IN WHAT I CALL THE SHORT LIST OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING AUTOMATICALLY TO FIRE PIT BUT WHAT I THINK IS SO FUNNY IS THAT AT THE TOP OF LIST IS COWARDS LOWE'S THAT DID NOT STAND UP TO THE REST OF THE PEOPLE ON THAT LIST AND MANY OTHER THINGS THAT ARE OBVIOUS TO WHAT IS WRITE AND WRONG
SO THERE IS NO NEED TO JUDGE ANYONE LET THEM JUDGE THEMSELVES BY THERE THOUGHTS WORDS AND DEEDS
BUT IN TURN LET NO ONE ACCUSE SOMEBODY OF JUDGING WHEN THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO SAVE SOMEBODY BY CONFRONTING THEM WITH THEIR SIN IN HOPES OF GETTING THEM TO CHANGE FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS
2 CHANGE SUCH A PERSON BY CONFRONTING THEM IS TO TRULY COMFORT THEM .
SARAH I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M RAMBLING LIKE THIS ANYWAYS I LOVE YOU AND YOU ARE THE VERY BEST DEFINITION OF A GOOD WOMAN TRYING TO LIVE HER BEST LIFE POSSIBLE
WELL I TRULY WISH YOU WOULD QUIT DESTROYING YOUR LUNGS 🫁 GOING TO BURNING MAN
YOU HAVE ENDED UP SICK SO MANY TIMES AFTER THAT YOU SURE YOU JUST DON'T KNOW WHEN TO QUIT AND YOU SAY YOU HAVE A SELF-PRESERVATION GENE I WOULD SAY THAT'S WHERE YOU DO NOT HAVE A SELF-PRESERVATION PRESERVATION GEAN
Hi Wonderhussy. In my heart You definitely deserve a better life than what You're living now but love the interesting content in Your videos. You're a very informative Adventuress. Love You Sarah Jane.❤❤❤
Enjoyed this video, amazing old buildings.
Love your videos, they can be be a little short but always have good content and info. I would enjoy a full hour or two. Thanks for sharing.
I would like to say hello to you from Baghdad iraq
I am old subscriber love you
Thanks!
….damn….RIP Soldier 🙏🏾
Anything I would add about the Marine, and desert survival would of course be in retrospect. As an Arizonan ... one learns techniques ... if you travel, travel at night. During the day, find shade and hunker down ... shade and coolness, can always be found in the desert, in digging into the ground ... a stick in the soil, on a sunny day, can be followed to find direction. But the military has done things like that before. Read about the USS Juneau (the first one) during WW2. Damaged, limping towards home, with other Navy ships ... an enemy sub in the area, so the Navy ships abandon the damaged Juneau, a sacrifice (along with the crew). It is sunk, over 100 crew survive the sinking ... but no ships are sent out for the remaining crew for over a week ... I think 6 members of the crew survived.
This is true, but the poor marine had no water either.. or the most a canteen of it. He almost made it 20 miles which is impressive in the summer desert with little water
Took Geology class at College of the Desert. Circa 1980. Field trip to Amboy, Bagdad, Chambless. Shell station/cafe was still functional in Bagdad.
Sad it was bulldozed.
HIGH FIVE TO WH FOR BRINGING THE 'MAGIC' BACK TO THE BAGDAD CAFE! 👍
Damn, Wonder, That's the most bummer vid you have ever made. I was "raised" militarily by Marine DI's. I was a 'draft dodger'
in VEEET Nam, (I joined the Navy) and went through AOCS (Avaition Officer's Candidate school) at NAS Pensacola. and our Military Instructors
were mostly older Marine DI's .Luv them Jarheads!!! I really teared up when you told that story.
It seems like the Lt. Had something against the grunt 😮 unusual that he was posted by himself and no one noticed he was gone for 40 hours? Very unusual. Thank God I was in the Air Force, in my time, we looked out for each other even if we didn't like each other 😂
Thank you for the tribute and you are so amazing in your stories! Wnat to run into u on the road.
Wow, Wonderhussy! Another great discovery! I’ve been exploring the local deserts around that area and I’ve even searched for Baghdad myself and I never knew about that amazing spot you found! Truly impressed and humbled by your desert knowledge. Thanks for sharing!
Sarah, Have you ever explored Amboy? You seem to be in the neiborhood. There is a little pioneer cemetery there with a very interesting story. Apparently an illness came through town (possibly smallpox) and killed all the children in town. There is a volcano also.
Thank you for showing the E. Clampus Vitus plaque. I believe that train you crossed over was a track maintenance train that replaces the track.
My grandpa was a coal miner. He also worked for the WPA and eventually for Firestone. He rode the freight trains looking for work.
I bet if wonder hussy had been there in the area, she would have rescued him! Love you hussy ❤
Interesting to see a tamarisk that they want to keep alive; they are considered invasive in most locations, esp if there is a stream nearby.
We used to go through there to load Gypsum in the 70’s and 80’s. My dad and I would take a truck out there, my best friend to this day, Larry H. Would also go with his dad in another truck. I won’t go into all of the ways they scrape, windrow countless rows of Gyp so it would dry, then use the skip loader to load it into the trucks.
The adults would sleep in the bed of the dump truck, is boys got to sleep on the ground under said end dump. We would wake up and see countless tracks from sidewinders! All around us all night long! Great memories. Thanks, Dad, Miss you so much.
Thanks WH.
Those RR cars you thought were used for loading boxcars looked like they were hauling very long RR tracks that were using quite a number of cars just for one length of several tracks.
Currently working on my 29th year with the Railroad and have spent plenty of time between Barstow and Needles. Love walking around checking things out when I have time to kill. One important thing I must pass on is never try to hop on a moving train, if it doesn't go to plan the human always loses...
Also if they can stop the train so the Engineer can take a crap then of course they can stop to save a life...
Do they really stop a train for bathroom breaks? No bathrooms on board?
@@charliedallachie3539 There is a toilet in the nose of the locomotive but if the Engineer has to go bad enough yes the train will come to a stop while business is handled...
@@OffroadFun I never knew that, if they can have bathrooms on jets, RVs, Buses even…I would figure a train. As long as there’s someone to take over the controls.. especially if it takes a few miles to stop a train
That is tragic...😢
Thank you for obeying the request to NOT post pics of the memorial. Your story was very clearly articulated and because of that, there was no need to see pics. Thank you for relaying that story to us.... Respect to the fallen Marine!!!
During my childhood, my family parked our house trailer , while my father worked on a pipeline, in three successive towns. Poe, Hinkley,
Bagdad. You might run into someone who remembers Poe, which was marked by a large heart shaped tree, since sacrificed to highway improvement.
Thank you for this wonder girl, lost man, lost town, makes me kinda sad but such is life in the desert
Sad story about the soldier that got left behind during training. Sometimes it takes an event like that to have an impact on the military. An initial count, and final count of personnel after landing.
When I rode motorcycles in the mountains, you can bet I never left a man behind.
Great content and video
LCpl Jason Rother would have been 55 years old on his next birthday in July 2024. Semper fi.
OMG thta was so bad, i love you
Awesome tree and letterbox. The nearest geocache is probably GC2K075
Fun video. Thanks.
Letter box, common in Great Britian. It's a place to leave a short letter, or poem which is shared among other travelers. You were supposed to write in the notebook you found. Rother was posted as a road guide for the military training exercise. The Lt, Allen Lawson is suspected of having had a drinking problem as he was cited for DUI previously. The LT was the only officer charged though there should have been a couple more. Two sergeants were also charged and convicted..
You're one of the few I don't mind following on the network. Thx. been to most of your journeys to out of the way places and have enjoyed the re-visit ✌️
I know that I will never see the monument to the forgotten Marine but I feel grateful for the salute by you! This was for all military men and women who served! The Lt had sgts and how in world do you lose a troop in the field?? They are you’re only job and you forgot.
Yeah Bagdad had it's slice of interesting stories to go with it. Sad about marine Rother dying on his own out in the desert R.I.P. Not sure why it took so long before anyone found out he was missing? As always great viewing SarahJane 💯👍✌👊🙂😎
Interesting story.
WOW YIKES N WOW ❤❤
this story really emphasizes the importance of good leadership. the benefits of understanding the terrain where you are traveling gets very important as surroundings become less benign.
German tourists used to be famous for dying of heat stroke climbing the trial back out of the Grand Canyon, because the trail is in direct desert sunlight at the end of the day as one is climbing out, and you need to prepare with, at least, extra water.
Hi Wonder Hussy! Love You!
Sad story about the Lance Corporeal - sorry, but the fault is on the platoon sergeant and platoon leader - you count people when you get on the trucks, count them when you get off, and count them when you finally form up after a training exercise - it's just platoon leadership 101 -
I was stationed at Ft Irwin in 1988 about 50 miles north of Bagdad - in a very similar looking desert - we went' on training exercises in the desert very often - after an exercise, I would have nightmares about leaving a soldier in the desert - I would sit up in bed and have to think back to our formation when we got back to the barracks, and see every man's face in my platoon before I knew we hadn't left a man in the desert - then I could go back to sleep.
Never go into the desert by yourself - because the desert will kill you!
I love your videos. I saw you do one once on Trona. I was born there 75 years ago. It was interesting watching your tour, thanks for good content and wit.
Thx Sarah for the Bagdad tour and history of this area.
You should do a video about the wild horses, Wonderhussy! I love you!
Another Wonderful Wonderhussy video although this one I must say ended on a high note which I thoroughly enjoyed. Sometimes videos kind of start off strong and peter out but not this one. Thanks Wonderhussy for giving me a new appreciation for the dangers of hiking in the desert heat as well as the gift of life and how fleeting it can be!
The train with no engines is a workers train. Those are all new rails on it. Somewhere they plan on replacing some tracks.
For the man left behind, could have a sinister story if looked into a little deeper.
4:22 The note advises to take nothing, to return all articles, lest you go from being Wonderhussy to The Thief of Bagdad!
Thanks for posting...
8 min 25s in that sign makes me want to try and write a song in BAGDAD tuning on my guitar lol it's like commanding typeset
Noooo! Those are continuous welded rail cars. They carry the rail to repair the tracks. They are either new rail ready for instalation or they are used rail that will be taken back to a shop for repair, replacement, or scraping. Jerry the Trainman from Jarratt, Virginia.
Wow! Chilling! I remember that incident, too!
Letterbox is something to happen upon, add a stamp & note in usually a quaint little book, and leave for the next person to find it. It was popular before geo cache. In my experience we all carried our own stamper & ink in case we found one!
So much for no man left behind
One gave all Semper Fi