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It was a pretty eventful day. I woke up at 6:00AM, thinking it was WAY too early. But hte dogs needed out, therefore I *had* to get up. I spent some time on the couch, debating if I should continue with my plans to meet up with Steve or... just sleep forever on that comfy couch. Dreams called me back to them, but I couldn't let Steve down and we had some SHIT planned.

 

Ok, nothing crazy, just a vague trip to head down to Yellow Springs, Ohio to check out the Tarot shops, books shops and other cool stuff. If the wind blew us that way, we'd continue down to Circleville, Ohio to check out the Serpent Mounds.

 

The trip down went quick, as time is wont to do when you're with friends and having good conversation. We "magically" found Yellow Springs as neither of us had been there nor did we have directions or a map. Call it luck or what have you but we wound up there.

 

It's a pretty cozy and crazy little college town, chock full of hippies. It'd been a while since I'd been in a place like that but I knew right off the bat this was a town I could stand to live in. 

 

We got there at like 10:00 and still most stuff wasn't open, so we had a coffee. At 11:00 we hit the used bookstore and I found some gems (a book on dreaming and some other random metaphysical stuff). Steve surprised me with a present of a Dan Brown book - Digital Fortress. We checked out a head shop, a tarot/crystal shop and some other random hippie stuff. All very cool. We grabbed some calzones before heading to Clifton Gorge.

 

I want to say Clifton Gorge is like Zoar Valley in NY, but maybe not as wide open. It's ... well ... a gorge, not a valley, duh. I'll let the pictures I uploaded talk more about this, but it was a cool experience. 

 

At around 4:00 we headed home. Steve came over to my place and then we headed to the quarry near my house. 

 

As if that wasn't enough excitement for one day, we headed over to a party for people we didn't know: our friend Andrew knew them and we decided to be adventurous/social. It turned out pretty ok and good to see Andrew, his woman Missy and other friend Kelly. 

 

And it's 11:30PM as I write this.... yeah, good, eventful day. :)