Lori Kim’s Blog 06-13-2012
Filed June 13th
Caught a few fish in the lake for breakfast. Cooked them over the embers of the fire. They were small, but edible. Caught a few extra for later, put them in a jar with water and then scavenged some of the neighborhood garages for gas cans. Got enough to fill up.
Burned nearly half the day getting back to the freeway, but I managed almost 30 mph most of the way up to 395. This is where I expected the going to get smoother, and it was already getting into evening. I decided to take it easy for the first day out on assignment. No need to push myself into dangerous territory yet. The closer I got to Boston, the more likely I figured I’d run into highwaymen. They tend to keep near the cities, more traffic and a place to go to just in case. You almost never see anybody except within 30 miles or so of the city. A good day’s walk is all most people are willing to challenge the wild if you never had to in your previous life. This far out from the population center, you almost never see people.
I made it to the merge onto 90, about 50 miles from Boston where I made camp. The town I stopped in had been abandoned like so many others. Found a sign saying Attawaugen, broken and the paint practically faded on the way in. Looked like a nice place to live, once. Train tracks ran through it. I like train tracks. They keep me grounded, a little reminder of how far humans once went.
I broke into a few houses to find canned goods. Baked beans, some fruit preserves, fought a rat for some pasta. That with the fish from the morning would make as good a balanced meal as I could get. Found a good size bag of rice, too, which I stashed in the sidecar.
Sat phone’s batteries are holding up, but I gave it a good ten minutes of hand crank charge just in case. I still don’t have a feeling for how quickly they drain.
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Tags: Attawaugen, Boston, highwaymen