Day 313 (evening): We’re about an hour outside San Francisco. We’ve passed some suburbs, all abandoned. No lights, no people, none of Them, nothing of interest, although everything seems to be blackened by something. Ash. Burnt fumes. Fires. I’m not sure. We’ve got the headlights on now, and we still haven’t seen anything. We’ll keep [...]

Day 313 (afternoon): Joe’s taking over driving. We’ve been driving for about three hours, and, according to this map, we’ve got about six hours left in our trip. This is almost too good to be true…. we’ve been trying so hard to get to San Francisco, and now it’s handed to us. Just that easy. [...]

Day 313 (morning): Uneventful fumings (Joe coughed a lot through the last one, which concerned me) over the past few days. We found some absolutely fantastic supplies (not the least of which was a freezer full of unexpired, untainted meat) and got the SUV loaded up and ready to go (with the mattress squeezed into [...]

Day 310: We checked out the car today. It’s a bright red SUV, still shiny, with completely undamaged black leather seats inside. I think it was new before all this started. It’s got some scratches and a dent in the back bumper, but other than that it’s fine. Getting in was an issue, as the [...]

Day 309: We actually did see someone today. It was one of Them. Standing right in the middle of the road, in broad daylight (which freaked Joe out) in a long, hooded black robe. I don’t know where on earth They get those things. I told Joe not to shoot, at least not for now. [...]