If You Are Between Bridgeport and Smith Valley You Don't Want...

 Your motor home to start on fire.

There we were driving a long praying our very tired kids (mostly Hazel see previous post) would fall asleep when suddenly we crested a hill and saw a motor home across the highway with smoke coming out the front end.  There was one other car pulled off to the side of the road and he reported that it had just caught fire while driving down the hill.  Of course being surrounded by mountains cell phone were not an option.  Lucky for us we had On Star.  So we pressed the red emergency button (for the first time ever) and nothing.  Not even On Star would worked.  We quickly drove about three miles until we got a weak On Star signal.  To make a long story short after several brief minutes Fire Trucks were dispatched from both Smith Valley and Bridgeport.

When we arrived back on the scene this is what we saw...

Not a whole lot left.

And then we sat,

and sat,

and sat,

and sat,

and sat some more (poor Rachee was stuck between the babies who wouldn't leave her alone, she also was suffering a little PTSD from her own recent car fire, really her not so hold Mazda 3 spontaneously started on fire, or the fact that she had to pee) until...

They all finally arrived.

Honestly it took over half an hour for anyone (and not a fire truck with water) to arrive and let me tell you

a motor home burns up FAST so there was much left for them to do.

And still we sat for another hour before we could go.

And by that time...

This is all that was left.

Let me just say that I honestly believe that if this would have happened in Churchill County it would not have taken the fire department over a half hour to respond.

We jokingly call the Fallon Volunteer Fireman, Fallon's Finest but I am sure glad they take what they do seriously!

Once we finally got on the road home we had to make another emergency Pee stop for Rachel who accidentally ended up peeing right by a giant ant hill.  Which caused a few problems the rest of the night.