This is a continuation of my The Maps of Us posts. In this post, we look at the overall journey our characters took in both games!
Behind the cut to keep your dashboards clean.
Keep in mind, all of these should be taken with a grain of salt. We don't know the actual route for all these journeys, just the major stops the had along the way. The biggest reason I did this was to 1) see just how far each journey was, and 2) look for any interesting details that could be found from this view. That being said, I hope this is as interesting for you as it was for me.
The original long af journey. Boston > Lincoln > Pittsburgh > Jackson > Boulder > SLC > and back to Jackson. Almost 4,000 miles total, probably longer when you know they couldn't just take the direct route the whole time. We know it took them about a year, all together. In game we only see a small part of that year and their journey. I think they showed us the most important stuff, but I'm hoping the TV show will include any cut scenes from whatever went on between Pittsburgh and Jackson. Although, having driven across much of this, they probably just saw a fuckload of farmland.
Perhaps the next trip, chronologically, or maybe this occurred before TLOU 1. This is the route Dina and Talia might have travelled on the way to Jackson. Then again, her sister was super paranoid, so they might've made a big zigzag pattern all the way to Jackson. I wonder how they heard about Jackson, and when. I'm assuming she came from Albuquerque, but I can't remember if that is actually ever said (it might be a fandom invention that I have absorbed). God, I just want more Dina backstory. I don't care if it's in a DLC or in the show, or even in a comic or something. GIVE US MORE DINA!!!
Ellie and Dina's journey to Seattle. Jackson > Idaho Falls > Twin Falls > Baker City > Yakima > Seattle. This is probably the most accurate map of a journey in this game, and it's all based on Ellie's journal entries (I love her journal so much). Dina catching rabbits in Idaho Falls (Ellie loves her), jumped by hunters in Twin Falls, they saw wild horses in Baker City (she really loves Dina), then Yakima where they found the highway (I'm guessing 82, which leads to 90, which would've taken them close to Seattle).
I love how you can see them moving around the mountains by the cities they visited (although again, the path they took between cities was probably not so direct).
Another neat detail from this map, Ellie mentions wanting to go through Boise because it would save time. This is neat for 2 reasons: the first is that Dina mentioned coming across survivors from Boise in the patrol log (so she probably had a good reason for avoiding Boise), the second reason is that if you look closely at the map, it really would have been faster to go through Boise. From Twin Falls, they could've taken a main road (84) all the way to Baker City and it would cut through Boise. Avoiding this road was probably safer, but it did cost them some time. I wonder, if they had gotten there a couple days earlier, what would have happened?
Ellie's trip to Santa Barbara. The second longest trip Ellie takes, after the one she took with Joel in Part 1. Also one of the most detailed routes we have, so we know from her journal that she went from Jackson > Dixie National Forest > near Las Vegas > Palmdale > Santa Barbara. Jumped by hunters in Dixie National Forest, avoided Las Vegas since she could hear all the infected from some distance away, Palmdale where she hid in the basement and buried those children, and finally Santa Barbara.
The neat thing about this map is that you can see how she stayed in the greener areas near water for as long as she could. Then she said fuck it and went through the desert, probably trying to save time.
A bonus picture of Ellie and Joel's trip to the museum. I saw a reddit post today that said it was based off the one in Laramie, so here we go. Again, who knows if they took this exact route, but since there aren't a lot of cities in Wyoming, it's very possible that this is pretty close. It also makes sense for them to go SE, since I am pretty sure that is the direction of the power plant and the route to it must be pretty protected.
One last neat thing for this map, this is roughly a similar route they would've taken to Colorado from Jackson in the first game (if this is in any way accurate).
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