My Response

Section read for the week was from page 47 to page 98

I was driving down the road when I saw a young man maybe in his early twenties. I stopped by to give him a ride. I asked the man where his camp was and he said "Out past Oh-My-God Hot Springs." (page 49) I've never heard of that camp before so I convinced him into giving him a ride to that camp. Once we reached the camp, I didn't believe what I saw. "The community was beyond the fringe, a vision of the post-apocalypse America." (page 50) I ended up driving past the camp into an empty area, keeping a short simple conversation with the man along the way. I learned that his name was Alex and he was from West Virginia. He wouldn't talk about himself more than that. After I left him at his place, I couldn't stop thinking about him. After about a week I went back to him. After some time passed, we started spending more time with each other. Alex would sometimes hike up here and we would occasionally do bar-b-ques. Later after a while I asked to adopt him as my grandson and he said we'd talk about it later. He kind of broke my heart when he left. I got a letter from him later on and took it to heart. I placed my possessions in a storage locker and sold my apartment. I moved to Alex's old campsite and waited for him return...