I think I just found out something, I don't know exactly how to describe it, strange? Insane? Bizzare? Probably that word.

Ever since Dan somehow found my truck last night, I noticed something different about him, and I don't mean he's acting weird since he's pretty much always weird around me. No, what I mean is that he seemed different in a physical way. You know how elves from Lord of the Rings have pointy ears? Well guess what? He has pointy ears, but that's not the point. When I asked him about it, he just looked at me strangely and asked 'are you for real?' He thinks it's normal for everyone to have pointy ears! I even showed him my ears and he responded with genuine shock and disgust, as if I'm the abnormal one here!

And that is just the beginning. We talked about where we came from and I think my theory of this being another world or dimension has just been proven. He came from a world with completely different technologies, though amid there's still some similar stuff like phones and microwaves? I'm not too sure as I haven't seen it myself, but since Dan recognised my phone, I guess there are still similar stuff in his world.

Dan and I talked about anything we can think of, hopefully as a clue to what is happening to us. He was apparently a college student until he dropped out a couple weeks before he came here. He's pretty grim with reality right now, even if he seemed so different from the way he wrote that note last night. I would even think he has split personality or something, or maybe it's just old age and I'm not keeping up with the modern generation?

Am I getting out of touch with the younger generation now? I hope not...

Anyway.

As we continued discussing and comparing our knowledge of our own worlds, I found that from history, geography, technology to even things like entertainment are at least slightly different. However, strangely, language and math is not different. Perhaps it's due to how closely similar our bodies are despite small differences like the ear shape. I heard that the 10-base number system is based on our ten fingers, so that could explain why Dan's world has the same number system. I'm not too sure about the languages. Maybe our similar vocal cords caused the identical vocabulary as well? Is that even possible? But there's also about dozens of different languages used on my Earth as well and he probably has the same amount. Is it pure luck and coincidence that he's speaking the same language despite coming from a different world? This... seemed to be too much of a coincidence.

Well, I can't really do anything about all this anyway. Even if I know about all this, I still have not really found a way home or come close to it. From what he's saying, he's pretty much the same as me, completely clueless on what is going on. It's just that I got lucky and found food, water and a bit extra based on my quick thinking. He hasn't had a good night sleep since he had been in this place, unlike me who were able to comfortably sleep in my truck.

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I might actually be right about typing all this down to help calm my mental state. Honestly, other than a little bit of anxiety, I think I can make it through all this without going too crazy about all these supernatural events. I might tell Dan about this. I think he might appreciate it.

Actually, I might find a phone for him first or else he's going to demand my phone every time.

After we discussed about our backgrounds, I decided for us to continue scout the area as I've been doing the last few days (and since he's not really going to do anything otherwise unless I tell him to). I somehow found a pen in one of the gloveboxes of the vehicles with some blank pieces of paper so I could kind of draw a map. I started drawing the map, and it turns out that I'm actually a terrible drawer because I almost got lost with the map despite being in places where I've been before. Dan got impatient and took the pen and paper right out of my hands and began drawing his own map. I got to be honest here, he's like a profession artist! Every vehicles and points of interest where right where it shows on the map, but what's more was that it's so fancy. It's like... I don't know, like one of those theme park maps with exaggerated buildings to emphasise specific rides? It's pretty cool as well as accurate. We both decided to let him do the mapping from then on.

Speaking of points of interests, we now have five different distinct areas on our map. We got my truck as base of operations, since it's the most familiar vehicle to me; we have the convey of trucks somewhere north of our truck for food and other supplies; there's an area of really highly-stacked vehicles where all sort of different brands are on top of each other in the east direction; there's also an area where there's almost nothing, few vehicles, just pure concrete grounds south; finally, there's the sea of vehicles where there are just cars everywhere, but not on top of each other for some reason over to the west, which is also the direction Dan came from by the way.

As for why the sea of cars was placed as one of the distinct areas other than the reason there wasn't any stacks of vehicles, the vehicles' brands were not of my world, and surprising also not of Dan's. They are completely different from every other vehicles I have seen so I am not too sure if I should explore the place too much. Dan's the opposite of me in that he wanted to check out everything about them. I guess he trusts that area since he came from that direction and was still alive. Can't really tell what he's thinking. Maybe he's just curious about the alien vehicles.

Anyway, I think that's all I got for today's report. I don't think there are many other things to think about. Dan and I decided to go explore different areas tomorrow, where he go west to the sea of cars and I go east.to the high stacks. I think we should properly name the areas, just saying sea of cars is getting about annoying now.

I do have to add though, I thought I saw something within the tall stacks of vehicles. I wanted Dan to come with me just in case but of course he's not going to come if I say that. I am an idiot.

I just hope everything will be fine tomorrow.

Everything will be fine.

Yeah.

I wonder how Mito's doing.

I should go to sleep now.

Mark, out.