12Wishing I had brought more than a machete and a backpack of food and that small first aid kit. You don't travel in this country other than light, however, unless you want to pay porters. And I knew they wouldn't want to go where I was wanting to. Sure, there's that GPS beeper if I get in trouble, but that shouldn't be a problem.
No, the greater deal was that I was working on an ancient description of where this thing was and the paths it described were all overgrown. It was easier to follow game trails, which did more or less follow those old worn paths. These roads had been used for hundreds of years before the civilization seemed to just vanish. And the growth was bad. Often, you could only work out the trail by looking up - and seeing where the trees parted on both sides, being thin
