sentences:  They worked on songs for the hoped-for album which they anticipated would set off everything, and they prepared vehicles and other items for their escape from the Los Angeles area (their home territory) to Death Valley when the days of violence arrived.They pored over maps to plot a route that would bypass highways and get them to the desert safely.Manson was convinced that the song "Helter Skelter" contained a coded statement of the route that they should follow.