[quote=czechmate46]
I feel like a year would be more ideal for what we originally had planned. But who knows. But traveling across states by car would be challenging, seeing as we've already established the danger with high ways. I'd assume a lot of us would have to travel by foot or horseback, or some other alternative like biking. Either way, those are relatively slow ways to travel, assuming you have to find your own path ways and stay clear of roads and high ways.
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I'm assuming Sloth's character drove on backroads and sub-routes. I've traveled throughout the United States and I've mapped out several zombie contingency routes (because I'm that much of a dork) - so it's possible he got a decent amount of travel to Oregon/Washington way if he stored up on a few gas tanks and drove/travelled smart. Might of even ran into a survivor group who traded gas for food, medicine, or ammo: as the four main resources of our world is gas, food, medicine, and ammo now. Also in the early days of the outbreak the problem was mostly in metropolitan cities over small towns though it spread like wildfire as the weeks turned into months...

That said, we just need a starting scenario to start. We can figure out "how the group formed" and "how long Jeff or Lucia have been in the group" and all that nonsense after that.