Further down the highway, after checking the IGA for what very little there was (as the supermarket away from the chaos had been picked clean several times over, [i]someone even took the Jalapeno peppers in 1 gallon jars...[/i] He kept glancing behind him, almost sure there would have been movement in the Eaton Estates; he expected at least a few squatters, despite the evacuations...

He brought the horse to a halt at an overpass, as the highway-bridge was clogged and underneath it stood a pristinely-clear railroad-track that would fit a buggy down just nicely.

About 500 meters in, he noticed the trees towering to either side of the trail, and decided this may not be the brightest idea as he saw a hint of civilization... a gun-shop. [i]Hallelujah[/i].

The most important part however, was that it had a garage-bay he could sneak his horse into for the night, and the building could readily be made secure. Why a place, still brimming with gun parts, had been abandoned was not immediately clear... so William affixed bayonets and gave the place a good stalk.

Then he realized, none of the parts were finished, none of the tools would be able to finish them without power, and there wasn't any ammunition. So even though he was surrounded by [i]literally thousands[/i] of nearly complete guns, [i]they all had the same critical parts missing or incomplete[/i]. Any complete firearms the store still had were in for repairs, and William didn't want to mess around with that... considering the complete lack of ammunition due to the previous-occupants stripping that part of the store dry.

Still, a new combination red-dot/night-sight and maybe a laser wouldn't hurt his Mosin any...

And with that, Mr Taggart locked-up shop, and walked out onto the rooftop with a few batteries he'd salvaged and some night-vision devices he wanted to try out before going to sleep for the night. If he found something he liked and was confident in,[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m99uFPnjA-U] he could try stalking the airfield at night[/url].

(I traveled 1.5 miles since my last post)