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Spent the weekend with my buddy Erin from Goshen, IN on bee-yoo-tiful Erie islands of South Bass (Put-in-Bay) and Middle Bass. We camped on Middle Bass at St. Hazard's. Little two person tent. Built fires both nights... we're very effective fire builders. *insert picture here, later* Spent most of Saturday at Put-in-Bay. The three most enjoyable parts were the Heineman's Winery and Cave (the world's largest geode; you actually get to walk around inside of it, very fascinating stuff, crystals). Bought a bottle of Cabernet for dad, a bottle of Sweet Catawba and two bottles of concord grape juice for myself, and a bottle of Pink Catawba for Erin and I that night. We murdered that bottle over many a hand of Spit as we tended our fire. Er... the other two things, now that I've completely lost any narrative thread, were the South Bend Chocolate Company (which was funny, because Erin is from very near South Bend, IN and is familiar with the company), where I had Milk and Fudge (good fudge) and the third thing was... ummm... oh yeah, touring the island in a golf cart.

PiB has gotten much more developed since last I visited, many a year ago. It's kind of disappointing, all those middle class twenty something and middle-aged drunk white people. It's like something out of a Christopher Guest movie, sometimes.

Friday night there was rain, and the tent perspired a bit, but the more unpleasant part was the 3 AM shouts of "Motherfucker!" Unsettling to say the least.

Um.. that's all.

Check back later and maybe I'll have made this into a cohesive narrative rather than the jumbled mess that it is.

Me playing cards in front of the fire

Erin inside the world's biggest geode.

The wall of crystals. The one in the center is the biggest one in the cave at some foot and a half by two feet by eight inches or something like that. Hundred and some pounds. Be dense like a motherfucker s all I know.


That picture is my new desktop.