The Left Behind Complete Set, Series 1-12

by Tim LaHaye

“Didn’t you ask me just the other day about that new utility road Carpathia had built?” “That single-lane thing that seemed to lead only to the fence at the edge of the airstrip?” “Yeah. Well, now there’s a gate in the fence where that road ends.” “So you open the gate,” Rayford said, “and you go where, across desert sand, right?” “That’s what it looks like,” Mac said. “But a huge expanse of that sand has been treated with something. Wouldn’t you think a craft as big as the 216 would sink in the sand if it ever got that far?” “You’re telling me you taxied the 216 down that little utility road to a gate in the fence? How big must that gate be?” “Only big enough for the fuselage. The wings are higher than the fence.” “So you ferried the Condor off the airstrip and across the sand to where?” “Three and a half clicks northeast of headquarters, just like Carpathia said.”

Here’s our first travel logistics proper for book 4.