I stopped writing after recording what we saw on the 10th. It still upsets me to think about what those survivors are probably going through. This was the largest group of attackers and the largest group of those attacked that we have seen or seen evidence of. There have been a few other times that we have seen the evidence left after an attack like a group of bodies and burned cars that we found in the middle the road on the 12th. It looked like everyone had been tortured and we couldn't tell how many men, women and children there were in the burned pile of bodies. I hope that they were dead by the time the fire got to them, but I just do not know. Some of the kids have had nightmares since we left the camp, but I know that some of the adults started having them after the 10th. I imagine that it is worse for the women. The men would have it easy and most likely would be killed right away. The women and maybe the children would suffer beyond what my imagination can conjure and I have read about tortures used on women during the Inquisition. Sometimes, an imagination is not your friend, especially in the middle of these long, dark, quiet nights.
There have been a couple of large groups of roamers that we have had to avoid, too. One of them was at least 15 strong and they were just standing in the middle of the road. I think they were waiting for some sound or sight to stimulate them to start moving again. We have seen this behavior in single roamers or even few together, but this group is still the largest one that we have seen showing this dormant state. We had to go back about 2 miles and take a side road to make our way around them, but it was safer not to take a chance that there were more of them in the trees right off the road that would be attracted by our trying to get through. We have no idea how large the groups of roamers we encounter will be. I am just grateful that I was not in Denver or Colorado Springs, I think the groups there are a lot larger than what we have seen so far.
We were all hoping to move a little bit faster, but we are lucky to be making the distance we are making every day. Tomorrow we are going to have to find somewhere to look for more gas for the cars. We have already left four behind 4 of the ones we left the camp in. The amount of gas it takes to run one car has to be worth it to the group. There were 2 SUV's that only got 10 miles or so to the gallon as well as two older cars from the 1970's that were getting around the same. Each had no more than 2 people in them, at the most, so everyone was moved into a vehicle that was staying with the group. I know that Jonathon was not happy to have to leave his early 1970's Cadillac behind, but really. We have other cars that get way better mileage and it was only him in that giant boat of a car. There are some things that people are going to have to let go of, and that car was one of those things for him. Anthony didn't throw a fit at leaving behind his giant SUV and none of the others did either. He understood that it is a necessary sacrifice for the group to get where we need to go. Jonathan is the only one who acted like a 5 year old and even the kids commented to their mothers about it. He either needs to start acting like an adult, or he will have to find another group to go with once we reach the airport in Denver.
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