Mary Elaine Hebert:  

A little horror story about one of my hitching experiences. While on California/Nevada border. A panel truck was picking up hitchers along the highway and dropped off at the end of town near a couple of routes headed toward interstate hwys. People headed in different directions. My friend and I apparently went the wrong way. Before we knew it we were in Death Valley. We were headed too Tonopah, Nv. After hours on the hwy. without a ride. No water, in the middle of the day. We saw no signs of life. Just sand, mountains, rocks, sage brush and asphalt for miles. Every so often a car would wiz by us. We would give them the universal sign of "thanks"... Finally, right when the sun began to drift down below the horizon behind us, two angels who happened to be indians picked us up. We very appreciatively climbed into the back of the sedan which had no seats. We both sat on the hot metal, still feeling thankful not having to be on our feet for awhile. They also had a couple cases of hot PBR. We sipped them at first but were overcome with thirst. We continued east, now with a wind blowing on our skin cooling us off. I was thankful to God he sent his angels. We rode a good 100 miles with them. We were let out about 20 miles from our destination. We walked a couple miles and a middle aged man picked us up in his pickup, with air conditioning. He wanted to know all about us and why were out in the middle on nowhere especially a young girl as myself. He reminded us how lucky we were and I reassured him I knew we were saved by God. We reached Tonapah, and the kindly man pointed us to a hotel to recover from our plight. Our salavation didn't end there. We didn't have the money for a room. We could however have free drinks and smokes. I was sitting in the lobby. I must have looked a fright, two truckers came out of the elevator, took one look at me then approached asking if I could use some help. I replied that I just needed to rest awhile. They were two more angels. They handed me their room key telling me to go on up to the room, bathe, lay down and sleep awhile. They would book it for another night, no strings. I couldn't thank them enough telling them they were guardian angels. I found my friend at a card table and told him about the kind truckers. We went up to the room, walking in, I just collapsed on the bed and fell into a deep and restful slumber. Upon awaking af...Expand for more