Charlies Journal - Long Range recon: Days 5 and 6

Day 5

Turns out, dog is good eatin'.  On full bellies, we headed out, crossing over a lot more hills. kind of slow goin' with Panky runnin' the drone constantly, searching around and watchin' out for the next ambush.  We kept stopping for the drone, so the batteries stayed pretty much charged throughout the day.

It was late in the day, when we finally stopped near a high peak on a cliffs, not too far from the road though.  Just lookin' around, I could see that the hills stopped pretty suddenly, and looked like a big valley out ahead.

Not sure why Panky pushed us so late into the day, but we got camp set up for the night.  Panky did a bunch more surveying, and seemed a little jumpy.  Real uptight again.  I talked to Sam about it a little, and she thinks that Panky is just tryin' to keep track of too much, and probably feels a little strung out about how we got surprised by the gang and dogs.

We 're both a little surprised that we haven't run into more people or settlements out here.  Most of what we've seen, just seems to always be from the before, always abandoned.  Nothin' that anyone would want to live in.  And a lot of the way has been dustier and rockier than home.  Can't grow much food out here.

I saw Sam's journal tonight.  Turns out she ain't writing, she's drawin' pictures of what we see.  Really good ones too.


We had dog again, for dinner.  I like dog.


Day 6

We were packing up camp, when Panky came running over, telling us to be quiet and hurry up.  Said she saw somethin', some kind of odd building down in the next valley, not like anything she'd seen before.

We got packed up and moved to a better position, forward and a little higher, with a better vantage point, looking into the valley.  Panky was real specific in directing Sam, so as to hide the Goat from whatever she had seen.  Was real odd.

Panky had settled down from her earlier excitement, and had Sam park the Goat behind some rocks and bushes.  She got out of the Goat, told me to get a portable viewer and come along.  We moved among the rocks and found a good scouting position.

Sure enough, there it was, just like she said, this three or four story concrete lookin' sorta pyramid kinda building.  Just plain weird.  Looked like some kind of tiny fortress, out in the middle of nowhere.  We could see a couple of people outside at times, and some other clutter around it, but just that one building, out there by itself.

After watching for awhile, Panky was satisfied that we learned all we could learn from here, so she started back to the goat. I asked her what we were gonna do, and she just kept walkin' away from me and said, "Time to make contact."