The Books
Oh, the guidebooks. All packed up now, dark inside a box and no longer useful.
Once, they were consulted hourly, hi-lited and dog-earred, carried at length through hot and rainy weather; now they wait patiently for us to regroup, replenish the resources and engineer the next voyage. I hope none of the pages we tore out went missing. I sure hope they aren’t painfully out of date by the time we need them again.