Winky and Dave get Lost

Today the three of us decided to go for a hike.  Kadizzle, Dave, and Winky.  Kadizzle did not want to go at the pace Winky and Dave love.  Kadizzle likes to mumble walk, that is walk slowly and just enjoy.  Winky  and Dave are of the fire ass school of hiking.  They like to go like the seat of their pants is on fire.  So Kadizzle set off one way to explore an Indian site, and the fire ass gang took off up the mountain.  As all things involving this bunch the planning was extremely poor.  Kadizzle wandered out to the Indian site and was amazed by the size of the rooms. After a great deal of searching Kadizzle did find a nice pottery shard.  Meantime the two beanheads shot up the mountain and got confused.  Kadizzle took a long hike up a short pinnacle and included two naps in the process.  Thinking the simple minded would return to the truck Kadizzle waited and came up with a brilliant idea.  Kadizzle would drive farther toward where the two wandering dolts were hiking.  This did mean there was no phone signal.  Time went on and on.  Kadizzle whistled, blew the truck horn and did what he could to get a response from the dolts.  No luck.  Now it was starting to get dark and the dolts were nowhere to be found.  If the dolts did come back down the road as they should it would be great, but Kadizzle began to suspect the dolts decided to walk all the way back to camp.  What should he do wait in place or assume the dolts would come back a different way or go back towards camp.  As things began to look hopeless Kadizzle drove down the mountain until he got a phone signal.  Sure enough the dolts got mixed up and came down a valley on the other side of the mountain by the Cliff Dwelling National Monument.  Fortunately it all worked out in general.  It could have been Kadizzle sitting there until dark waiting for the wandering dolts.  When Kadizzle finally picked up the dolts on the highway walking toward camp they looked like two chimney sweeps.  The dolts had to go through a burn area and at one point they must have crawled under a fence.  They were covered in soot and ash.  After everyone showered we had supper at the marina.  Happy New Year.