MsGeek's Journal: "Too much bloody perspective"

My train trip back from Santa Barbara was delayed by the advance of the Val Verde/Simi Incident fire. Basically the part of the fire that burned through Moorpark jumped over the tracks, and if it had gone through 30 minutes later than it did the train would have been caught by the fire.

I have a whole little essay that I was going to post that I wrote on my Palm, but thinking about it, rather than griping about being on "Gilligan's Train Trip" last night, I am actually damn glad to be alive.

The slow trip through the burnt area was sobering, to say the least. Literally, it looked like a page out of Dante's Inferno. I have pix and I will upload them to web space when I get the chance. The train crept at a 5 mile-per-hour pace through Moorpark and some of Simi, which meant that it took us an insane amount of time to get out of there.

Anyway, here's coverage of the fire from the Ventura County Star.