... long hard days, and cold countless moonless nights added continued discomfort to the marching column, fortunately, with but a single plane over head, flown by FsG acting as a lone, resolute, and stedfast silver beacon of light that acted as a welcomed shining spirit guide, with night lights flickering faintly in the almost starless night. The resolute band pressed on, and some crossed the big electronic divide from the far, and enchanted North county into the arid wastelands of Gila monsters, centipedes , magic serpents with rattles in their tails, and even the infamous polecat one could smell was about to terrify even the nose, not unlike an older Big Mac that went wrong! The sun in this new land was only off-set by the cold winds of an unkind Winter that wiped through the Panhandle conformation of this strange new land with relentless determination. Yet, the group pressed on, seemingly immune to a perfusion of bones scattered about, and strange flying birds circling and seemingly observing our every move, we push on, and upward untill ...