After a quick breakfast we headed downstairs to begin our big adventure. I should probably explain how I'm still going to be putting journal entries up regularly. Well, we found a few of those 3G wireless hotspots around the different apartments and we took the ones that either had no password or whose password was on the box, the instruction manual or on the device itself. Either way, you should still get regular entries.
Once we were downstairs and all sat nicely in the car we navigated our way through the city and out into the wider world. It was sort of melancholy saying goodbye to a city you had called home until just recently and knew you wouldn't see for a very long time. We had decided on a route the night before and so headed West out of the city and onto the greater highway. We hoped that there weren't any traffic jams for us to navigate around but so far it had been clear.
We passed a few towns today but they were all dead silent and full of no life at all. The first town we had stopped at the town centre and walked around calling out but the only sounds we heard were echoes of our own voices. The second town was much the same. By the third town we had decided that we could cover more ground quicker by driving up and down the streets slowly and calling out to see if anyone heard us. This did get us through a whole lot quicker yet it was the fourth town where we had to stop for the day and find a place to rest.
It was a quiet little town with only a few residential streets surrounding the town centre which consisted of a grocery store, a department store, a few minor stores, some food outlets, a church, a petrol station (where we filled up the tank which was running dangerously low) and a hotel where we decided to spend the night. It was only a small two-story affair but it was enough for us. We found a room that was empty (which wasn't hard considering that the town was so quiet it offered nothing for tourists) and dropped our stuff before heading back out to scope the streets. Within an hour we were back at the hotel with no results. Everyone was frozen in time and even if someone wasn't, the chances that they would have stayed in this town instead of going out to look for others were very low.
To be honest I didn't blame them. I won't lie though, I was disappointed and I did need some consoling from Alex (which he was happy to give me). However, my determination to find others out there was still strong. I don't know why I felt so strongly about it but part of me knew that I, I mean we, needed to find other people. We may have had each other but we could still feel a little lonely at times. Well, mainly me. Come night time though Alex was quick to erase the loneliness from my mind. Haha, speak of the devil. I have to go.
Until next time, this is EF signing out :)
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