day 82

today we slept in and decided to roam around town. hit up some bookstores and finally picked up a copy of "the mountains of california" by john muir, been looking all over the county for it. we heard about a cool abandoned power plant, so we went down to it to check it out. after some time, we finally headed in to check it out and it was completely locked up. we were bummed cause it had such huge potential. we headed back to walk around yale and meet up with our good friend, matt gilroy. he just got back from iraq a month or so ago and he lives in upper new york so he drove down with his bike to finish biking the rest of the trip with us. we stopped in at the apartment and just chilled and matt showed up and we caught up since the last time i saw him was 2 years ago in amsterdam. we went with hans and his girlfriend to a community dinner and it was a lot of fun. we enjoyed some good food and then went around the room talking about things we needed and tried to see if others could help, it was beautiful. evan got some "learn romanian tapes" and matt got a free place to park his car instead of in a parking garage. we walked to move matt's car to the house and we grabbed some dunkin donuts and matt really struggled finding his validated ticket. it took literally like 5 minutes for him to find the ticket and pay for it. i felt really bad for the parking lady. we roamed some more and finally decided to go back and catch some zzzzz's.