Blatherskite

Thanks for all of your comments on the “WTF” post. A few days later I’m feeling less shock and more depressed. Hopefully this cloud will lift soon.

So why am I so bothered by the James Kim death? I think it’s because I feel like it could have happened to me. It seems so random. A family takes what they think looks like a shortcut on a map because they missed thier exit. How many times has that happened to you or me? It happened to my husband and I last summer in Oregon, in fact. We were driving to the coast. The road we ended up on was an obscure road that wound through the Oregon mountains. It was a gorgeous drive last summer and we didn’t feel the slightest bit afraid that we would get lost. But that road in the winter would probably be impassable.

I just keep thinking about what the family must have been going through in the car the 9 days they were stuck there. And then to make the decision for James to go get help. He was very heroic to make that decision. He must have known the risks. He left the car in street clothes. He probably didn’t make it through the night. And then the fact that he was found a half a mile from his car. And I also found out that he was very close to a fishing lodge, too. It’s just tragic. And I feel bad about it.