'Twas a refugee center quest. After that, I got the mission to go help the farm commune, which was triple the distance(but same direction) of the bandit camp. I started making preparations to leave. Unfortunately, a massive horde homed in on the place, partly due to some twat of a random NPC firing at zombies with a loud gun. I originally wanted to make a slow move of blazing a trail with one of the motorcycles or the quad I picked up from that bandit camp, but the zombies pushed me into loading all my worldly possessions that I could fit into the van(nearly filled it, and I had to leave the 55 gallon water drums and perishable food behind). The zombies were starting to spawn on the place as I started the engine.
Next was the drive there. I stopped over the night at a farmhouse, but that direction was blocked by forests. The attempt at burning the forest down didn't help, so I went around. That route led through an absolutely massive horde. I pushed through, there was no other way. The first thing to go were the rearview mirrors, and I did not stop to pick them up. Next, a seemingly critical hit to the front end pushed the battery from yellow to red condition, which meant the alternator was not producing enough juice to keep up with the leak. I pulled right up to the ranch house just after the battery hit 0%.
Now the place is surrounded by zombies. To deal with it, I headed to a nearby town, found a house with a basement(survivalist basement with food, medicine, and a bed), blew up an explosive device a few blocks down, and camped down in the basement for a while. Drew enough of them off that I could probably fight the rest with my reinforced steel spear and caltrops.
During all this, I was perpetually tired from a combination of the Sleepy mutation and a cold. The drive away from the refugee center(before the farmhouse I found) was in a state of Dead Tired!.