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This is slow going

In 3 hours, we have gone approximately 8 miles

Denver International Airport is er than I had hoped It took us 20lot onto I-25

It’s hard to see out of the s because of the Plexiglas, which is not clear like regular glass It’s like driving through fog

The highway is cracked in places Soaps and craters in the asphalt But so far there’s been nothing the bus couldn’t , battery-powered floodlights These are good:

1 They lead the way

2 They help us to see better as we pass

3 They give us hope that there’s so out for us

There are cars densely packed on each side of the highway and just one lane going through theand cleared a path through In some places, cars have just been lifted up and pushed on their sides to make room

The cars are not what is scary, of course Nobody would just get scared in a long, weird parking lot like the I-25

It’s the bodies

We see the out of their cars

Some are just bloody messes--they must have been type A, like Niko and Max

In sohts shine on slick, black liquid splashed all over the inside of the car It’s blood I guess those people were type A, too Or maybe those cars had two people in the else, and the O just ripped the that’s scary is the whiteup over the car tires and up onto the bodies of the cars

It looks almost like the car tires have frozen, with snowdrifts of ice particles covering theh some of it at one point and it didn’t seeh It see fungus

Anyway, it explains e’re not seeing

Only tires that have been kept out of the air aren’t covered in the ht in the road The thuine, we could feel theive to it as ent over it

A ive, if that even et to think about, Dean, while you are lazing about in the Greenway, eating Whitman’s Sampler chocolates with Astrid and Chloe and the twins

Max, Ulysses, and Batiste are sitting craht to me--behind them there are all these containers filled with food, boxes with gallons of water--all these supplies ja jumble, and then in front of theuess one of them (probably Max) stashed the cars in his backpack And now they’re having races on the seat back in front of the noises little boys make

Sahalia is with Brayden in the front seat

He’s in bad shape

Sahalia keeps saying urgent things to Niko and Josie and ray He looks like he’s going to die But we can’t really hear her

That’s because of the air ine noise and the sound of our own heartbeats ha under herstretch of open highway ("open" o around)

We got up to 20 hed and I think Niko was grinning under his mask, but I could only tell by the corner of his eye that I could see

Josie was s thumbs-up She looked funny--we all did--with her five layers of sweatpants and sweatshirts and then a large orange slicker on top of it all But she looked hopeful and I save her thumbs-up back

When Josie was happy, it made everyone happy And this roup Everyone depended on her for her good, easy way of being

Max cary!" he shouted

"You’ll have to wait, honey!" Josie shouted back

"But we’re hungry!"

Josie took Max by the hand and led hi to tell hierous to remove his mask to eat when Sahalia screamed

Brayden had slu his na hiuess

Josie ca has he been unconscious?" Josie asked Sahalia

Sahalia said so back but I couldn’t hear what it was

"Brayden, Brayden! You’ve got to stick with us!" Josie yelled "We’re trying to get you--"

"He knows all that I’ve been telling him that but then he fell asleep and you have to help hi out