Weird, my birthday passed by without my even noticing.

Anyway we reached grand Junction on the third and Salt Lake City this evening.

While scott hasn't figured out how to teach us how to do the eye trick he does, Axel did figure out a group of runes that work well enough together to increase viability in terrible weather.... so we now have a set of goggles with those runes inscribed into the frames that a person can see about 300 feet in 10 foot visibility. Axel then inscribed the same runes into the frame around the windows on the truck rather than tire himself out making goggles for each of us.

We did encounter one bandit during a relatively calm period on the road, I was the one who was on top of the second trailer with the 240 when some guy tried to creep up on us while we were turtling along.... I guess he just didn't see me because of the ash clouds roiling around behind me or something, and only when I yelled "Oy! Can't you see the fuckhuge auto rifle?" did he actually notice me before falling backwards startled into an ash drift yelling out apologies and running back into the wastes. Only one I saw from the top of the trailer though, and I was looking for them..or well anything. Did see a group of deer bedded down at a relatively sheltered spring up a draw but that's about it.

grand junction folks appreciated the supplies.

Anyway the reason for a lack of posts, the storm brought a lot of interference making it impossible to connect to the internet.

Tomorrow we get to meet the people of Salt lake city.