Got delayed at Salt Lake more than anticipated, there's still serious tensions between the Republic and the Confederation and despite having prior approval to get through the order checkpoints they delayed me and had an interrogation every couple days just to confirm I was who I said I was, what my purpose traveling through the bi-state area was, where I was going.
Apparently there was someone wandering around that could shapeshift.
The archivists (leishey's people) have some serious gear now, it concerns me to say the least, and that's just the stuff that they let me see.... Still they let me take one of the UTVs that was "liberated" from the military in the confusion following the war, so there's that.
GPS stopped giving me a decent location a few days ago, but I'm somewhere in wyoming, judging by the main source of light reflected off the ash clouds, I'm somewhat southeast of the caldera itself.
