"Careful kid," Alex said when Alan grabbed the wrong bag. He shook his head in slight amusement at the kid's antics. "Yeah, we should get going. First..." Alex reached into his bag and pulled out a piece of parchment, which he unrolled to show Alan. "This is a map of the places I have gone to. It's nowhere approaching complete yet, but it's a start." Pointing a finger at a town, he made a circling motion. "This is where we are now." Next, he gestured at the featureless plains surrounding the town. "We should mark the locations of landmarks and the like when we find them, so that in the future it will help up navigate. Last thing we want is to get lost out in the desert. Make sense?"