Raymond:
        That's pretty funny. Another episode one evening in Guatamala
when we  heard the sound of gravel moving then felt someone outside
shaking the van. I got out to see who would be bothering us on this
lonely mountain gravel pull-off overlooking a gorge 250 feet straight
down with no guardrails.
        There was not a soul to be found....... it was another
aftershock and plus here we were stuck on a pull-off with a just
discovered flat tire (from a trip over a bulldozed landslide earlier
that evening). Hope was with us though as we saw the lights of cars
moving slowly down the hillside on the other side of the gorge. We
decided to stay put as it was dark and we couldn't see diddly.
        The next morning we discovered that the car lights we saw had
been lava flowing down through the woods on the other side of the
gorge. COOL!

                                David (dsl82westy)
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Karin Baker & Raymond Paquette <raymondpaquette@GMAIL.COM> (wrote)
>I parked my '64 in a cornfield in Mexico.  Woke up early to these very
>creepy loud scraping sounds, and felt the van being bumped around.
>
>Scared.  Did the only reasonable thing I could think of.  Hid under the
>covers.  More scraping.  Chewing sounds.  Waiting.  Sound of something like
>a creaky door swinging back and forth.
>
>Finally got up my courage to peek out.  Surrounded by thirsty cows, licking
>the heavy morning dew off of my van.  Ever seen the thirsty cows in Baja,
>with the cactus hanging from thier faces?  One had licked my fiberglass air
>scoop too vigorously, it had broken loose and was swinging back and forth.
>
>Things sound different at night.
>
>Raymond