Shopping Carts in Ravines

So, I’m in Waterloo now. Our (Me, Thresh, Paranoize) scouting mission was not just a failure, but an abject one. The van we borrowed from Cowboy decided it wouldn’t start while we were in cottage country, and we were delayed until the next day when we could get a boost… then we couldn’t find the site we went looking for and were afraid of the van dying on us down a random back road in the middle of the night, so we gave up and came back to Toronto…

…where we drove to Spadina, at which point we discovered a sulphur smell coming from the battery. We popped the hood to find it smoking, leaking battery acid and burning its own labels off. After finding someone who could lend us money to buy a battery, we had to use the good battery to boost the bad one and then drive around the city trying to find someone who was awake and had a wrench.

Once the batteries were switched, we headed to the anti-WEMF party (”Corporate Ravers Fuck Off!”) on the Scarborough bluffs beachfront. A chill site with a sound tent and a pirate flag flying a bit out into the water, with a lovely view of Pickering’s nuclear power plant and wind turbine.

Sa texted me from WEMF to say she wanted badly to get out, and when we (Me, Thresh) left the beach to return the van (to Waterloo) we were working on a plan to scoop her up on the way, then all bus back to Toronto and return to CRFO. Would’ve been a good beach story, unfortunately things didn’t work that way…

Cowboy wanted his van back ASAP and phoned to yell about it before we’d left Toronto. I was in the middle of getting a falafel (though they were closed, my King David review was blown up and put on a big corrugated plastic sign and posted in their window… it was neat feeling like I’d left a mark on the place/area, now that I don’t live nearby any more) from Yakamoz when I found out one of my old school friends just got engaged… The first serious engagement of any of my personal friends.

Anyway, we couldn’t get Sa, rushed back to Waterloo, and Cowboy zoomed off to leave us to discover that the last bus had already left. So me and Thresh stayed the night. Sa showed up, Thresh left today, but me and Sa just missed the last bus again while buying food and so I’m still here.

I think our trip served as a lightning rod for the scouting bad luck, though, because apparently Talixzen went up to the same area and found a new and better site than the one we’d gone looking for… so, 73KN1V4L!!!

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