I had this plan to bring all my gear to work and walk to the Union on Wednesday morning, but Doren really wanted to give me a ride from my house, so I ended up staying at the rents so I could spend some last-minute quality time with my cat. In the morning I walked back to my house and Doren picked me up and dropped me off at the Union. I caught my bus and started reading Fleet of Worlds and met some lady who helped me figure out Union Station lockers and waled to Lake Michigan and back and caught my train. I spent most of the train ride in the viewing car, alternating between reading my book, talking to other passengers, and (early in the morning) dozing off a bit with a towel over my legs to stay a bit warm. At around 8:00 I dozed off again, and when I woke up I asked a guy next to me if we were in Denver, yet. He told me we'd passed it an hour ago. I ended up getting off in Grand Junction (which I thought was Moab because that's where some of the people I had been sitting with who got off there were eventually going) and catching a bus back to Denver, then wandering around by a bunch of highways before A-Day successfully directed me to a city bus stop. I then took a couple of busses to Colorado and Colfax where I met A-Day outside his work and we went to dinner.

The next day while A-Day was working I went and bought a whole bunch of camping gear. In the evening A-Day rented a 'compact car' (they gave him an SUV for the same price, which worked out okay because we stuffed a lot of crap into it) and we drove to Fort Collins and picked up Fizz and drove to this campsite where we met Jamie and Kai.

That night I had a dream that, among some other stuff, Andrea and Arnold Schwarzenegger were dating. I was super jealous and wanted us to get back together.

I had an interesting dream the next night, but I forgot what it was.

Since then I've been in Fort Collins drinking beer and recovering from being sick and sending messages to fashionistalpa.