Beth Shapiro

It was a very...

So you just hear boom, boom.

Or you'd be sitting there looking at something and suddenly the Zodiac would take off because whoever was in charge had seen something he wanted to shoot at in the distance.

I don't know why I'm telling this story.

Because it's fun.

It's a fun story.

So we were there.

We're there for, I don't know, maybe it was two or three days looking around.

And it was about two o'clock in the morning.

We were inside this little tent that we'd built so that we could eat in it, sort of the kitchen tent where we were.

And it was a big mesh tent to keep the mosquitoes out so that we didn't have to have anything.

And everybody is just staring off into the distance glumly.

The medical ethanol was gone.

Everybody was sober.

We were going to be for the next five weeks.

We were going to be stuck in this place where we weren't going to be able to find what we were.

And then all of a sudden, these three dudes show up outside of our tent with machine guns.

Right.

And I'm thinking, everybody's thinking.

What the fuck?