The windshield wiper fluid sloshing in the bottle in his pocket is really getting tempting now. He's reapplied the sunblock twice, and tried to stay under the umbrella, but he still feels sunburned. He'sīeen sweating all day, and his lips are starting to crack. By the end of the day he's really thirsty. In case he gets that desperate, brings his pocket knife in case he finds a cactus that looks like it might have water in it, and heads out in the Him a little shade, pours the windshield wiper fluid into his water bottle Later, brings an umbrella he'd had in the back of the SUV with him to give He puts on some sun block, puts the rest in his pocket for reapplication How dark it actually was the night before, and given that he has no flashlight, he's afraid that he'll break a leg or step on a rattlesnake. He thinks about walking at night to avoid the heat and sun, but based upon He figured he only had to go about 30 miles or so and he'd be back to the small town he'd gotten gas in last. He thought maybe he knew the direction back, now that he'd paid attention to the sun and thought he'd figured out which way was north, so he decided to start walking. He stayed with the car for a day or so, but his one bottle of water ran outĪnd he was getting thirsty. He had no family, his parents had died a few years before in an auto accident, and his few friends had no idea he was out here.

There were no cell phone towers anywhere near, so his cell phone was useless. He'd decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn't get it started again.

So, there's a man crawling through the desert.

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