overpass

2020-08-18

I was speeding down the highway and noticed a cop car behind me. It turned on its lights but I wasn’t sure if it was trying to pull me over or somebody else because it was hanging way back.

I decided to try exiting the freeway to see if they’d follow. I went down the offramp, and there was nothing down there. No road, no buildings, no signs. I tried to follow some impressions in the ground to just get right back on the freeway again, but when I went under the overpass to where the on ramp should be, first of all there were a bunch of people under the overpass who look like they’ve been living there for a while in lean-tos and tents, but secondly there was no entrance back onto the freeway.

I backed up and tried a few more times, but each time I drove under the overpass, there was no way to get back on the freeway. The people living under the bridge had all started to notice me driving in back and forth in circles by now, and they were all looking at me, but not doing much of anything.

Eventually this kind of redneck older guy with a barely grown in grey beard shows up in a huge black pickup truck and says that this used to be a housing development but he leveled it to build something new. I said I was stuck and couldn’t get out. He said yeah, that happens. His wife and his girlfriend got out of the truck. They looked like sisters, both with long big blonde hair. Kind of short. They unloaded a pair of motorcycles and said they would lead me out.

I followed them away from the overpass to a building that looked like a pedestrian skybridge over the freeway. They pointed their motorcycles up the steps and made like they were going to ride up the stairs. I reminded them that I’m in my car, and cannot drive up stairs.

Something else happened after that, but I can’t remember.