uh... there is no law enforcement since the half wit put his hand on the bible. Just imagine the cost to the taxpayer of America to have such incompetent people in charge. In the past all our world wars were started in that interim time period which we had the same type of people in the white house. We are just sitting on our hands and allowing this idiot to allow every known enemy we have to simply walk across our border. The first American killed by the hand of a terrorist that came across our border while the half wit was in office, he should be charged with being an accessory to a hate crime and murder. Then hang him !
Faye, only a Diabetic I takes insulin. If she's a Diabetic II, like wife and I, she would be on some type of med, like Metformin. That is what we are on. But, you are fully right, there seems to be things missing from this story.
Maybe these folks just wanted to wring-out the last bit of enjoyment from life that they could. IMO, when it comes to health situations etc. We all can & [again opinion] do go through a certain amount of denial .... So hey, lets take a trip, spend some quality time together just the two of us, and see America. Of course I wish it could have gone better for them but ,,,, if that was their thought ? At least they got as much as they did. Best of wishes to the wife ........ R.I.P. to the husband.
I will say this about a GPS, we had a small one that could be used for either in a boat or in a vehicle. One time we had it on our vehicle to find the Courthouse in downtown Jacksonville, FL.. The GPS, for whatever reason gave us the wrong directions and didn't take us to the Courthouse, but somewhere else. At the time, we had a flip-phone that didn't have Internet access. So, we called the Courthouse and the address they gave us was different than the GPS. Now we use our iPhone12 for directions and it is extremely accurate.
Wrong Cody. People with type II diabetes can and do take insulin. My dad had type II and he took insulin as do MOST diabetics whether I or II. Not everyone’s diabetes is controlled the same way nor the same amounts. I just want that out there to make sure someone isn’t misled.
Here is what I just came up with online: Metformin and insulin Metformin is an oral diabetes medicine that helps control blood sugar levels. Metformin is for people with type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes. Metformin is sometimes used in combination with insulin or other medications, but it is not for treating type 1 diabetes. So, since wife and I are both Diabetic II, we only use Metformin, but I also take Glipizide.
Sounds like the family is trying to protect them from any criticisms from the public , which isn't uncommon for a family to do..........sometimes.
Family describes Ron as a mixture of Indiana Jones and MacGyver Ron 72 had cancer from Agent Orange he was exposed to in Nam. He had trouble breathing due to part of a lung being removed. It is unclear if he was in remission. He had peripheral vision problems and tended to hug the right side of the road. Bev 69 had diabetes and trouble walking and used a cane. Their 26’ RV was found in such a remote wooded area that it took rescuers hours to get to it once it was located. They spent the first night in the RV They unhooked their KIA SUV turned it around They followed the RV tracks downhill until they went off the road in a ditch two miles from the RV. Ron beeped SOS every hour on the car horn, for 6 days, until he died, then Bev took over the beeping for 2 days until she was rescued. Bev describes Ron’s dying as peaceful and a beautiful experience. She says they never felt panic and were at peace during the entire ordeal. Their RV was last seen driving on Highway 95 in the desert on the evening of March 27. The following morning, the last recorded ping from their phone was recorded in the Coaldale area, the Esmeralda County. They left Albany, Oregon and were headed to Tucson, Arizona. The route was south and slightly east. A nephew says their text message pleading for help didn’t go through until they were found. Bev says they found solace in reading the Bible daily. She didn’t mention if they prayed or not. How does a MacGyver/Indiana Jones war vet going south and a bit east, suddenly make a right angle turn off a paved main Hwy? Did he not notice his GPS directing them off paved Hwy 95 to turn due west on a gravel road seemed wrong? Their RV had a COMPASS which should have triggered a red flag. Did they not have a hardcopy atlas? Did they not map out their trip? They made it out of Albany, Oregon down I-5 with turnoffs leading to HWY 95 and half the way through Nevada and then strangely they lost all sense of directions heading south on a paved desert highway that has signs announcing towns ahead and how many miles south to Tucson and turned abruptly west because their GPS suddenly malfunctioned? Now relatives are blaming Nevada search and rescue for delaying searching and calling for reform in that department and even have a Go Fund Me account to pay for shipping the body back to Indiana and any extra will go to search and rescue reform. Another interesting point is that Silver Peak is the only REMOTE mountain wooded area near HWY 95. (see map) Why not a wrong turn in the desert or a lesser remote area where they could be seen for miles. Also, why didn't they set off flares or start a big fire away from the car? Why didn’t Ron an innovator and survivalist as described by family never question all the wrong decisions? His wife is a diabetic and they leave the RV without food or water? Strangely she survives 8 days on snow meltwater and was alert enough to beep SOS on the horn every hour for 8 days. That SUV had a damn good battery. Interesting that no one mentions if they ran the car at times for warmth or how much gas was in the car. Bev was released from the hospital just hours after her rescue. That seems strange for an obese diabetic that lived on only snow melt for 8 days. I think she had food and of course Ron chose not to eat so he could drift into the spirit world and die. No way Bev could have survived 8 days without food and not have had an insulin shock or at least severely hallucinate after the 3rd day. If you piece this together examining all the evidence, it is easy to see that this was a die the way they wanted, at least the way Ron wanted and not a series of stupid mistakes that defy common sense. Bev’s admission of how it was all peaceful I think tells the story. She says it was beautiful and he went in peace. Travis Peters, the couple's nephew and a longtime photographer and editor at 13News, said his aunt and uncle were very intelligent people. Ronnie was a proud U.S. Air Force veteran who loved antique radios and was ahead of the curve when it came to technology. Beverly worked for defense contractors and also loved technology. I can understand why Bev will never tell the family or world what really happened. She would be judged or charged with a crime. Perhaps maybe she didn’t really know what Ron was doing when he made that right angle turn off the HWY taking them to Tucson. At that point she was just along for the ride. Ron died in peace and that is all that matters.
It’s off topic but you stated that people with type II diabetes do NOT take insulin. it was a generalized statement so I corrected it.
Well, Bev says her husband "went in peace", but the family is pretty upset over law enforcement-search/rescue. So, while Bev might be happy for herself not dying and her husband "going in peace", the rest of the family are in an uproar.
Recently one of their relatives posted on Facebook that they spoke to a search and rescue member (not named) that claimed they located the car before the air search people did and they saw mountain bike tracks going by the stranded car where the couple was in the back seat. They are angry that this biker didn't report what they saw and apparently just rode by. Strange that Bev didn't mention this. Is it possible that Bev told them help was on the way and everything was OK? This is interesting because no one else investigating the incident mentioned seeing mountain bike tracks that were more recent than the car tracks. Another detail is the road was NOT MUDDY!. It was a gravel and sand road and the reason the RV became stuck was it started spinning out due to a very slow speed and the steep grade it was climbing. The RV had to go slow because it was towing a car hauler that was bouncing. They were at about 7000 feet and where they left HWY 95 was 5700 feet. That was a 1300-foot climb up a remote gravel road that apparently didn't ring a mental bell that something was wrong. Another interesting story that was reported was that sometime in the late evening of the 27th, the couple's cell computer pad pinged off the Silver Peaks cell tower way to the west near the California border, but never again. To ping off that tower at that time means they were already stuck high on the mountain. Why their cell phones did register any pings after they left HWY 95 is a mystery since there are several in range on that side of the mountain. It makes me think they turned them off. They must have turned on their pad once stuck and then turned it off. Maybe the story of the ping was fabricated by Nevada S & R. Several have said they should have had cell service from where they were stuck, but again no one is speaking out about this. It makes perfect sense that on that mountain top, they should have been able to access several towers. I hope someone will investigate this further since some in their family seem to want to put all the blame on Nevada S & R, spouting that Ron and Bev were blameless and it was their faulty GPS and the Nevada S&R for not launching a full out search the minute the family noticed them missing. It is sad to me that they want to blame others that did their job the best they could with what resources they had. Maybe they think that will stop any further investigation or admission on their part that this couple made an amazing series of very stupid decisions or some else might have happened.
Does anyone remember something almost the same as this happening maybe a year or so ago ? I looked and can’t find it, but I seem to remember some kind of a news story of an older couple in an RV who took some kind of a shortcut across the mountains, and for some reason got stuck (my memory is that the snow was too deep for the RV), and this couple was not found until after both of them had died. They were supposedly looking for some abandoned town or a ghost town high in the mountains, maybe Nevada, or maybe it was California or even Utah.
Yes, I think it was midwest Oregon. If I remember, he went off walking looking for help and got confused. I will see if I can find it.
I saw a documentary about a family that got stuck on a small mountain road, which I think they were trying to take as a shortcut, only to find that it was snowing heavily on the mountain. They ended up taking another road trying to get down off of it and got stuck in a place that no one was likely to travel. The man ended up trying to walk for help, leaving his wife and a couple of kids in the car. I think the wife and kids were rescued but the man died, or maybe it was the other way around; I don't remember for sure. I can see how this can happen. Before the state started making landowners gate or block their logging roads, I had driven on pretty much every one of them in this part of the state. The nicest views are off the road and, when driving around the state, I'd use my compass and see which roads went all the way through. Some did, and some didn't. Many years ago, a friend and I drove in on a woods road in California from the Forks of Salmon (near Yreka), and nearly ran out of gas before we came out not so far from the coast. There were no cell phones then, either. I know that some of you will disagree with me, but I am all in favor of taking chances. Life can be made so much more interesting that way.
Yes, that is the right story. It was the Kim family. The man was the only one that died trying to take a shortcut in the forest looking for help. He was found near a creek. I don't take near as many chances as I once did. I was spared from several close calls. I won't do things if I know the odds are against me.