The others were already crowding around the windows as they began to roll past the first signs of life they had seen since leaving home.

“Have we taken a wrong turn?”

“I’ll check. Where did you put the maps?” Turner asked, automatically flipping open the glove compartment. “Dee? Maps?”

“Right…maps” Dee smiled sheepishly at her cousin “I knew I was forgetting something.”

“Are you serious?” Elise, overhearing the conversation was up beside them instantly “You forgot to bring maps and we’re already lost? How is that even possible! I looked at those directions and there’s only one road through the desert and it’s totally straight and we’re on that road! We can’t conceivably be lost!”

“Oh man, is this going to turn into a teen horror flick where we end up hopelessly lost being picked off one by one?” Journey grinned settling back into his seat as his sister needlessly paused at the stop sign on completely quiet road, “Hey Elise, start worrying, cheerleaders never make it far in situations like these.”

Life is a highway....

...I wanna ride it....

...But now we lookit in the eye...