Here is what you've all been waiting for, the final page, the final day, and the end to all the madness, where one may be the first to cross the desert. Here it is:

20/04/473

Yes! After all my days of struggling, I have finally made it across the wasteland, but I need not celebrate, as I feel very warm, and am struggling the very last...few...feet...my family lies waiting at the end, I can see them! "Mom, I'm hon....

I awoke after what seemed like an eternity in a daze, I was in a house unfamiliar to me, but

I swear I have seen it before... I couldn't believe it... it was my brothers house! I made it! But then my family told me what happened, and how I almost made it and fell just a few feet away! I could've been the first one if I had brought more water. -_-

A happy ending for a determined man to be re-united with his brother