"Started in Boston. We ended up in South Carolina." Where Mason had been elected President of the Second United States. Politics weren't really his niche, though, and he'd eventually stepped down. And the actual president was found alive anyway.
"The entire planet was pretty much destroyed. There's pockets of survivors here and there, but yeah. Not many." He shook his head. "It's a brutal world. But I'm here, and I've made a new life for myself."