Doom level with deep, dark, watery part

I was working on some deep, dark Doom level with Sara. The deep dark part was this very tall hallway with water at the bottom and a place on the other side. I wanted to have some alternate route back from the deep dark part, but Sara thought that was dumb.

Lost suburb

There was some 'lost' suburb in Wisconsin—somewhere to the southeast of Madison. Maybe I was watching a documentary about it. In some of the old pictures they showed I thought I spotted palm trees. Dang we used to have palm trees? Things have changed a lot.

Tidal wave

Sara and I were wading in the water at a beach, walking parallel to the shore. We saw whales! And also elephants. Wow! Then suddenly all the water was gone. Oh no, I thought, this means a tidal wave is coming! We'd better scurry to higher ground! Sara and I both had some personal gear scattered on the ground, and were standing a ways apart (she was on the other side of a big driftwood log), so I was yelling to her to gather her stuff and get going. We eventually got our stuff collected and ran up the beach, and continued on up a sandy/grassy hill and into the woods at the top, where the ground plateaued.

This was a good start, higher-ground-wise, but didn't seem high enough. One tree had a latter propped up against the back side. So I climbed to the top of the ladder with Sara right behind me. I found I could wrap my arms and legs around the trunk and keep going, and I told Sara to follow. The tree trunk turned and went off to one side and up and down and kind of all over the place, and eventually brought us close to the top of a cliff, grassy on top, with a road that led up an even higher hill. It was a bit scary but I was able to swing/jump from the tree to the top of the cliff. I encouraged Sara as she did the same.

I vaguely remember that maybe we had left some stuff at the bottom of the tree and had to climb back down to get it and up again. The tidal wave never became an issue.

Carnie camping

The road at the top of the cliff led us into the next part of the dream, where now we were apparently on some multi-day trip with a bunch of SA people. I wanted to tes t out my new waterproof notebook, which was, unexpectedly, a large hardcover book. The last few pages seemed to be normal (non-waterproof) paper, and there was a smaller notebook tucked into the larger one (see also: fancy calculator carrying case).

In my notes I called this a 'camping' trip, but it wasn't tent camping. I think maybe we had a bus. Almost like we were a bunch of carnies hauling festival equipment around.

At one stop I was talking to some guy who was holding a garbage bag. I had disassembled my tape measure. Parts were falling under things. "Did it fall in the trash?" I asked him. "No, I don't think so." he replied. Eventually I spotted the part I had dropped under an RV, so I crawled under to get it. Trillian was nearby and asked what I was doing so I had to explain the whole story about disassembling the tape measure and dropping parts and one of them is under here.

The location we ended up on the second day felt like Gorham near James Madison park, except without all the buildings and with more woods in the distance (i.e. it the lake/hill/main road layout was very similar). I guess now it was night, or evening, because I could see stars in the sky. I was looking at them through the scope on my gun, and hoping that that wouldn't freak anyone out. There wasn't even a magazine in it! To the northeast I found a couple of satellites that were moving super fast from right to left. There were also visible, though just barely, without the scope, so others noticed them, too.

Then we packed up and were headed to the next place. I was sort of a third wheel. Someone's parents were driving us, but their brother had come along for the ride, and so there were only 2 seats open in the car. How were we going to manage this hmmmmmm.

The third place was California. The grounds we stopped at had lots of conifers around the edge. And there was a Sesame Street show going on! Big Bird was dancing around up on a stage. Everyone in the audience (that being mostly our SA carnie crew, but maybe there was also a whole other group camped here) was making a sign with their hands that was like stacked "ok" signs, but I didn't quite know how to make it. Someone standing near me was like "make the sign!" Trillian was in the row ahead of me and was wearing a bright yellow skirt that happened to match Big Bird's color really well.