Glad to hear you made it through the experience wiser and without major problems!
I've never experienced that or probably even come close, but your story was kind of scary for me. I live alone (no relatives w/in 100 miles) and I really don't have any to call to be my sag wagon. Your story has settled two things for me. From now on: 1-before I set out on any >35 mile ride, I chow down but good; 2-I
always carry my cellphone along with a "crib note" listing the phone
#s of all taxi companies in the area where I'll be riding stuck in my wallet. These ideas aren't rocket science and I should've been using them as SOP's since Day
#1 , but... Better late than never (and before disaster, too!), right?