Mark’s last adventure.
It was the summer of 2008. I had been sent to Cal Fire's base in the city of Ukiah. I had the goal of paying off our home's mortgage. As I had done in summers past, I saved the per diam that I received by not renting an apartment. I instead slept in the wilderness. My duty cycle was 15 hours a day and I was only allotted one day off every week. And my wife was insistent that I would come home on my day off each week. It seemed money foolish to rent an apartment…