Nazrax

Bed @ 2330 after a long day at the museum and on the road
Woke @ 0400 by dog. Back to sleep around 0500.
Woke @ 0600, immediately back to sleep. Woke @ 0715.

Foreign food
I'm with a guy I know in a foreign restaurant. They don't speak any English, and we don't speak whatever language they speak (something African, maybe), but the guy I'm with knows the words to order what he's been told is a really good dish, so he orders for us.

Now I'm with some people walking through a city. They want to try out this dish too, since it was good. Ahead, the part of the city where the restaurant is comes into view. In fact, it's hard to miss the transition, going from normal buildings to what looks to be half-finished chaos (boards and girders sticking out of buildings at all angles). Now we're loading up inside a huge elevator. I'd been worried there wouldn't be room for our group, but there's plenty. Unfortunately, we got a bit strung out, so we're waiting for the guys in the rear to catch up. Bob keeps having to hit the door open button, and I feel bad for people on other floors who need the elevator. I notice a large monitor above the control panel but have no idea what it's for. Eventually, the elevator starts beeping at us and won't respond to the door open button any more. Our pastor's son and another guy still haven't made it; they'll just have to take the next elevator. Now we're going up, and I realize that this elevator has no inner door and we can see the building whooshing by, and that if anyone stuck had through the opening he'd probably lose it.

Now we're walking through some kind of fancy restaurant. I'm self-conscious in my shirt and jeans, and some of the diners are giving us nasty looks, but the place is mostly empty so it's not too bad, and it doesn't really matter since we're just walking through on our way to our destination.

Now Alex is riding on some electric vehicle around a large empty room adjacent to the large restaurant room.


Fragment: I'm at a gas station pumping gas into my car. I notice that, in contrast to the station I was at earlier in the day, this one doesn't have the big "It is illegal to walk away from the pump while it's running" sign.