Thankful that I didn't get hit on the road today by the reckless (and they think drunk) kid who crashed his car just a way down the road.
Thankful to the nice fireman who took pity on me after over an hour of standing there, sweat-drenched and freezing in the cold, darkening afternoon.
The Staters were letting a lot of people walk around, including some locals who lived there, but they wouldn't let me through, even after the ambulances were gone, and after a bunch of people had walked around all over the site.
That fireman said, "Don't look around, just follow me, then disappear." I was freezing cold, and he helped me get on my way, only 20 minutes back to my car. It was the very end of my ride.
"The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it." ~ Doug Bradbury