Yes, this is how my mind works.

[madbaker]

I recently read a fantasy apocalypse book - monsters appear and the world breaks down. While there are fortified safe zones, generally it takes hours to go a few miles because travel is on foot and you have to look out for and/or fight monsters the whole time.

The main character is in Hollywood, and at the end of the book all he wants to do is get to his family - who are on the East Coast.

Let me break this down. Character is planning to walk, in a group of three to five people, from southern CA to the East Coast. While fighting monsters the whole time. Not to mention having to traverse the desert and salt flats (I was initially yelling about the Rocky Mountains, but that's a N CA reflex). How many months or years will this take? How are you planning to carry supplies with only a few people and no wagons? Do you know how much drinking water weighs?

I guess the author never played Oregon Trail.

Comments

[beanolc]

Ha!

[conuly]

If he waits long enough, somebody's bound to start up a shipping industry again, and then he could just take a boat. That's not a process I'd take lightly either, but it's still got better odds.

[joycebre]

they're all gonna die of dysentery anyway, because modern people don't understand sanitation.