noon
Then he rolled over on his back and stared up through the bush branches at the sky . It was another perfect spring day and the sun was well up on high . That realization finally filtered into his tired brain and brought him sitting bolt upright . `` Gee , it must be close to noon ! '' he heard his own voice whisper . `` And we 've still got a heck of a ways to go . But where , and in what direction , I wonder ? ''