The Glowing Sea occupies most of the southwest corner of the map (and you seem to be able to explore "off the map edge" as well), it's a bleak place indeed. If you've not explored it yet, it's worth a wander around!

Level 80!!! For just the third time in all of these years, I've reached level 80. Man, I can't help but think the third time is a charm and this is the one.

Except, of course, for the fact that I also felt this way when I reached 80 the other two times. And the very first time I made it to level 50. And 60. And 70. And they didn't work out so well... lol

Whew... got really, really close. Damned raiders. Two Raider Survivalist, two Raider Veterans, and a Legendary Raider for good measure ambushed me not far from Cabot House. And when the dust settled, I looked at my Pip-Boy and had 19 HP. And that's out of well over 800 lol. Funny thing is, I was so busy firing and moving, I looked once and wasn't even half way according to the HP meter, and thought okay, I got this. Man, I didn't even realize I was getting so low until I heard the heart beat sound, took one more round, heard the sound increase to like 150 beats a minute or whatever, fired one shot to kill the one in front of me and realized he was the last one. lol Closest so far in this game.

14 days and 7 hours, according to the save file. What is that?? Let's see... 10 days is 240 hours. 4 more days is 96 hours... 240 + 96 + 7 = 343 if my math is right.

Yeah, that would have left a mark. Although now no matter when it happens it's going to be another tough one to swallow.

EDIT: Trying another screenshot. I can't really see the first one, so maybe this one is better.

EDIT2: Yeah, that's a little better. Guess I'll have to give it to Steam on one issue... taking screenshots look better and are easy as hell to post in the Steam forums... plus you can take several of them. Playing the GOG version, I can only use the PrintScreen key and only have one screenshot at a time to paste into whatever image software I use. So to take five in the GOG version, I'd have to take one... exit the game... paste it... save it... renter the game... .... yeah, I'll give it to Steam on the screenshot issues. Although perhaps GOG's Galaxy has a similar utility but since I've never used Galaxy I don't know.

EDIT3: Went back in and took another. 19 HP out of 870. lol yeah, that was close.

Assuming you are on windows. If you must use the print key, try using win + print keys - it directly saves the whole screen into your pictures folder.

Btw.: Great read and good luck on your current run.