The key when fleeing zombie hordes by vehicle is never stop moving. Bridges make terrific bottlenecks that can force you to break that rule, so bridges are to be avoided. That can be difficult if you live in a city with three rivers, that just happens to come in #2 for most bridges in the world, right behind Venice, but you do what you can. Again, and I can’t say this often enough, you never need to reload a blade.

Vehicles help. Rotting really takes a toll on the consistency of flesh. Sure, we were rolling for a while with quite a collection of zombie hands and forearms hanging from every available hold that a Honda Civic offers, but at sufficient speeds, they get ripped clean off and the hand is all you get.

It took some time to set up a good satellite signal, and that should keep us in touch for a little while, at least. There’s zombies up here, too, but this is one of the least populated places in the whole state. Not a lot of humans up here even before all of this, and even fewer now with people actually running into the city for sanctuary. They don’t even know what’s back there….

So, not a lot of humans, and not a lot of zombies, either. But they’re up here. Not enough to put together a respectable horde, mind you, but they come shambling along. We’ve got a good, clean view, and plenty of time to act before they’re within biting range. That they come along one, max two at a time, helps.

I’m just thankful this happened in the summer. Winter’s pretty bad up here, but if we’re going to have to make it through, at least we’ll have the autumn to prepare. Could hardly ask for better timing on that front. The deer herd is vastly overpopulated in this forest, and though it’s technically poaching, I think the government’s going to have bigger things on their hands for a while, like ravenous undead. And that means plenty of venison. As long as animals don’t start going undead on us, we’ll be OK.

We made it, and it looks like we can probably hold out here for a while. That’s a lot better than most people can say. I’m not sure how many others are still out there, but I’ll try to continue updating whenever we have a good satellite signal, for however long that lasts.