Ape Shit Fire

Don't know if you been watchin the news, but there's a fire raping south California. We been keepin track of this fire since about 2 days ago, and only now that it's only about 5 miles away from us that we are actually starting "to feel burn" if you will, or "smell the smoke" if you will.

Sam and I were supposed to watch a movie with the wives last night. I was looking forward to it, but got my hopes of relaxing shattered once they turned on the news where scene of the fire began intimidating all of us. After about 20 minutes of that, being that it was already late-ish, I said, "fine, if i'm gonna sit here and not watch a movie while watchin the news, I might as will have a beer in my hand. So I opened the door with a gleam in my eye that everyone saw. They asked, "where are you goin Jaydee"? and I said..... "to get some beer". Of course none of them believed me, but I was sincere in my motive. What they think? that I was gonna go try and chase down the fire? ha, fools! Sam seeing that there was no point in sitting there and lookin at what could clearly be our fate decided to come with me.

So we were about to pull over to the liquor store when we looked under the bridge, past hwy 10, when we saw the fire in the distance. It was a magnificent sight and the thought of beer vanished from both of our minds. It's funny how plans changed from a innocent beer run, to chasing what we both already subconsciously wanted to chase in the first place.

So we started off by taking the 71 south towards Chino Hills which is there the fire was having its dinner at the time. we figured that since the world around us was evacuating all hwys would be traffic jammed. But to our joy, we discovered that it was in fact a "ghost town".

So we continued our quest for adventure along side 2 dudes on motorcycles who were also looking for adventure. After searching for the perfect view for about 45 minutes and seeing that every neighborhood in Chino Hills was blocked off by fire trucks and cops, and feeling that we were so close since the fire was right over the hill we were driving along side, we said "forget this", parked the car, waited for traffic to clear and began running up this hill or should i say "mountain".

Sam and I were doin good until I looked down and saw how high up I was. Just then my all but forgotten fear of heights kicked in and we had to call it a night. But before doing it we agreed to wait it out; maybe, just maybe the fire would make its way towards us eventually. After all, the hill we were on was covered in nothing but dry grass and a beautiful orange glow of the flames right above us on the on the other side of the fire.

With scrapes and scratches, Sam and I finally drove back home to our wives. There will be another day for adventure, though I feel like a coward for ending our search when we were so close....................

in other news, please pray for us, as the fire is heading in our general direction. The winds haven't really been helping out either. Just pray for our protection that that we won't have to evacuate. one love