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time in days felt her appetite return. She left the others at the table and went in to the camper to make some lunch. They had started making soups and stews to stretch out their supplies and she had one simmering on the stove before long. Humming to herself, she mixed a fresh batch of biscuits and popped them in to the oven. While she waited for them to bake, she did a quick inventory of their food supplies. They still had quite a bit but it wouldn’t last five people more than a week and a half.
    Alex liked the idea of scavenging more supplies and the RV resort was the perfect place to do it. When they had left for the school trip , there had still been some snow on the ground so most of the RVs would still be in the storage compound. There were people who winter-camped at the resort but most people started the camping season on the May long weekend. Her family owned a fifth wheel trailer and she knew that her mother left a lot of dry goods in the pantry so chances are others would as well. She even knew how to get into many of the locked campers from experience. More than once they had locked the doors in the fall and then forgotten where the keys were the following spring.
    Once the soup and biscuits were ready , she carried the pot out to the table and they carefully folded the map away and had lunch. While they ate, they decided on a plan to scout out the resort. They wanted to bring back as much as possible but they also wanted to be quiet. Their best defence was being able to hear a vehicle coming in time to hide. They decided to put their bikes in the back of the truck and take it as close to the resort as they could before biking in the rest of the way. They could make trips back to the truck with the supplies they found. After seeing what was going on in the town, they were very cautious and each of the teens carried a handgun and an assault rifle with extra ammunition. A backpack with a small amount of food, water bottles and a first aid kit was also packed. They piled into the truck with Quinn driving and Alex in the passenger seat. The others climbed into the bed with the bikes and they drove slowly back towards the road leading into their secluded campsite.
    The resort was huge , with over four hundred camping sites, a small store and pool. The storage compound had at least three hundred campers of all different makes and models and it would be a great source of supplies if it hadn’t already been looted. There was a paved road running between the area where the kids were camped and the resort and as they came up to it, Quinn came to a stop and shut the engine off. Josh hopped over the side of the truck and made his way up to the pavement. After listening for sounds and hearing nothing, he moved out onto it and scanned both ways before waving Quinn through.
    Quinn drove over the pavement and on to the gravel access road that led deeper into the forest and the resort. Josh hopped back in and they followed the road slowly. Alex leaned forward and watched for the turn they wanted. She knew there was a service road that skirted the resort and that’s where they were going to hide the truck. The main highway that ran through town wasn’t very far away to the south but with the trees between them they would be out of sight.
    Quinn pulled over off the road and shut the engine off. They all piled out and Josh started to hand down the bikes. Alex scanned the area around them and was going over the resort’s layout in her head when a sound caught her attention. Her head came up and she looked to the west and held up her hand. Everyone froze and strained to hear what she had.
    Josh was still standing in the bed of the truck and he turned towards the trees separating them from the highway.
    “Two engines maybe, but not cars or trucks, something smaller. They’re coming from the west, I think,” he reported in a low voice. “It could be our bad guys scouting or it could be people heading to town who don’t know