Al sighed as he began his story. "I'm not going to bore you with useless trivia, so here's the short version- after I got the hell outta Manhattan, I managed to drive all the way to... I think it was the Iowa-Nebraska border before I ran out of spare things of gas. After that, I had to huff it all the way to Calgary Mall- just me, my rifle, and what I could carry on my back. During that little escapade, I learned a lot of stuff- the limits of zombie intelligence, the best ways to kill said zombies, how people reacted to the infestation, how people dealt with it... I nearly got killed crossing into Colorado by a group of people who were going mad."
He hefted up his stuffs, all of which were organized in a fashion to limit interference with long-term hiking. "Let's get moving- we're burning daylight."