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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"writing",<br>"author":"everittdmickey",<br>"permlink":"teotwawki-an-original-novel-episode-123",<br>"title":"TEOTWAWKI (An Original Novel - Episode 123)",<br>"body":"<center>\nhttps:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/steemimgimgs\/2016\/10\/17\/steemsnail60f22.png\n<\/center>\n\n***\n# <center> Scoot Away <\/center>\n***\n\nReggie looked at Mary with an evil Grin\n\u201cYour turn,<br> we\u2019ll trade off.\u201d\n\nAnd so they did.\n***\n<center>\n***MARY***\n<\/center>\n\u201cThis has been a hell of a weekend. Two days just wasn\u2019t long enough to do what we did,<br>\u201d Reggie said as we sat in the back of a taxi leaving the apartment.\n\n\u201cIt certainly has was,<br>\u201d I agreed \u201cMission accomplished though.\u201d\n\n\u201cI hope,<br>\u201d he said. \u00a0We\u2019d just left the apartment office. We\u2019d just completed canceling the lease and the various utilities online. We knew better to expect the return of any of our MANY deposits. We\u2019d played that game before. We always lost. They ALWAYS found a reason to keep the deposit.\n\n\u00a0The weekend had been a mad scramble. \u00a0We had sold everything that we could sell,<br> including our cars. \u00a0What we couldn\u2019t sell we had donated to charity. \u00a0What we couldn\u2019t donate we threw in the dumpster. \u00a0The money had been used to stock the boat,<br> and buy some new things for the boat that might come in handy.\n\nLike Ammo. Last stop this morning had been wally-world. We had stocked up on bullets.\n\nThen we\u2019d called a cab. It took us as close to our slip as it could. \u00a0We paid the driver,<br> gave him a BIG tip,<br> walked to the boat,<br> boarded and left. \u00a0\u201cWhat do you think?\u201c Reggie asked me.\n\nIt was cold,<br> ice on the river cold. \u00a0I snuggled up against him some,<br> we were in the wheelhouse. \u00a0It had a heater so it was fairly warm inside. \u00a0I still liked to snuggle.\n\nIt had snowed that night. \u00a0Just a dusting but the boat and the crab claw was crystal white.\n\n\u201cThat Crab Claw is a work of genius,<br>\u201d I told him,<br> and it was. \u00a0He\u2019d attached flexible solar arrays to it and installed electric wenches for positioning. \u00a0It was all controlled from behind the wheel.\n\nThe Scoota had been designed as a pure power boat. \u00a0Reggie had modified that somewhat. \u00a0From the mast he'd hung a modified Crab Claw sail,<br> also called an Oceanic Lateen. \u00a0It was a combination sail,<br> solar collector and a nifty shade too. \u00a0Even on a cloudy day it produced enough wattage to power the twin electric thrusters. \u00a0The Power Cat was silent as it moved downriver at just over steerage way. \u00a0It\u2019s Range was unlimited and the fuel was free. \u00a0All it needed was the wind and the sun. \u00a0The Honda outboards were just for backup.\n\n\u201cAre we going anywhere?\u201d Reggie asked me after we had been on the river for a few hours\n\n\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d I responded.\n\n\u201cDo we have a destination?\u201d he asked.\n\n\u201cNot particularly,<br>\u201d I said,<br> \u201cwe\u2019ve avoided being \u2018thrown out onto the street\u2019. \u00a0We\u2019re warm and safe. \u00a0That\u2019s enough.\u201d\n\n\u201cI agree. \u00a0That being the case. \u00a0Let\u2019s drop anchor on the downstream side of an island and just sit a while,<br>\u201d he said.\n\nSo we did. It wasn\u2019t a lot of fun boating in the fog. The solar array was the _full spectrum_ type and worked off UV and Infrared but it was having a hard time charging much. We only use the power when we had too. Mostly we just drifted. We decided it would be best to stop if we could. We found an uninhabited island in the middle of the river a good ways from shore. No _hot spots_ appeared on our infrared vision googles (state of the art,<br> twenty years ago,<br> bought on e-bay) so no fire were lit. In this weather a fire would be needed to stay warm on the island. It appeared to be uninhabited. If anyone was going to bother us there they\u2019d have to work for it. We\u2019d most likely see them before they saw us at any rate.\n\nWe stayed there a few days,<br> a week maybe. \u00a0We didn\u2019t count the time. \u00a0We \u2018settled in\u2019 to the boat. \u00a0Things were moved,<br> the electronics were wired and rewired,<br> until until we got it right,<br> until we got it the way that we wanted it to be. \u00a0We\u2019d been somewhat rushed during the initial launch.\n\nTHEN,<br> we began a slow drift down the river in the fog. We used sonar,<br> radar and our passive night vision goggles (infrared) a LOT. \u00a0Each night we\u2019d find an island or a sand bar to protect us from drifting river junk. \u00a0We weren\u2019t in a big hurry,<br> all we needed to do was to move south and keep ahead of the pack ice.\n***\n***\n## <center> ***To Be Continued*** <\/center>\n***\n\n<center> I hope you are enjoying this\n[Yarn ( https:\/\/classteaching.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/21\/spinning-a-pedagogical-yarn-the-role-of-storytelling-in-the-classroom\/)\nhttp:\/\/public-domain.zorger.com\/samantha-at-the-worlds-fair\/three-hobos-in-rags-bums-chat-story-teller-friends-bff-three-of-a-kind.png\n.\nPerhaps you might also enjoy\n[Other Books (https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/-\/e\/B00DXISW74)\n that I have written.\n. \n***AND***\n.\nFollow me @everittdmickey \n.\nThat's my Blog \nin which I pontificate on [Technology (http:\/\/theemergingfuture.com\/speed-technological-advancement.htm),<br> \n[Philosophy ( https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agorism),<br> [Religion ( https:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=off&q=agnosticism),<br>[Politics ( https:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=anarchism),<br> [Economics (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_market)\nand occasionally\n ***[ShantyBoats ( http:\/\/shantyboatliving.com\/)***\n.\nIn my Blog I write about,<br> \nand hopefully engage my readers in discussions about,<br>\n the possible lifestyles that we will encounter after\n[TEOTWAWKI (http:\/\/tspwiki.com\/index.php?title=TEOTWAWKI) happens.\n.\nIt WILL happen,<br> [one way ( http:\/\/offgridsurvival.com\/mostlikelyshtfscenarios\/) or [another (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Post-scarcity_economy),<br> \nprobably something in between.\nOne thing is for sure and for certain though,<br>\nthe world will NOT remain the same.\n.\nSo Come on Down!\nSit a spell.\nI got the Coffee on.\n<center> https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/steemimgimgs\/2016\/10\/20\/coffeefc1c3.jpg<\/center>\n***\n\n***\n<center> \nThe [Hobo Picture (http:\/\/public-domain.zorger.com\/) is a Public Domain image from\n __Samantha at the Worlds Fair__ \nby Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)\n Illustrated by \nBaron C. 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