Lee and Sam tell us that we"re almost to Floridaland, but I don"t get how they know that. The scenery hasn"t changed much. I guess they"ve been here enough times to know. I have no idea what Drew and I would"ve done without them. We"d be completely lost. What were we thinking? There is no doubt in my mind that we would"ve failed if it were not for those two Americans. Now, though, everything has changed.
Every day seems to blend into the next. I can"t even tell how many have passed. From sun up to sun down we walk. Most of the time, we"re in overgrown forests, but occasionally we choose the easier route of a nearby road. I"m shocked at the lack of any sort of civilization here. Sam tells us some of the old stories of the people that once lived here.
“These people were free,” he says one
