With the increasingly nice weather after the rainy season, more and more of the muddy dirt roads are becoming accessible again. Yesterday, however, Rhulani's ranger, Dean, was a bit too optimistic and actually got stuck in the mud. That wouldn't have been anything unusual or a problem, but then an unusual rescue operation began with the Rhulani experts...
“Not a normal morning, I must say”, comments our head ranger, Alasdair. "We went down with the maintenance cruiser to help Dean. But when we tried to pull his vehicle out of the mud, the maintenance cruiser got stuck. So we needed a third cruiser to pull the first one out, but then the third cruiser got stuck too."
Alasdair can't help but laugh. "Three of our cruisers stuck in the mud!" And you already guessed it. "We ended up having four cruisers there, and we eventually managed to get all the vehicles out. It was quite an adventure."
As you can see: there's always something going on at Rhulani, and of course, there is always a solution.
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