Took 1.5 hits of Matt’s acid at around 10pm. Shane took the same dose, and Tom was just smoking weed. We took it at McDonald’s in South Keys and then decided to walk to a forest where there were train tracks. We talked about nothing too notable up until we go to the forest. We found a place to shit and proceeded to get Tom high on weed. Tom put in a huge amount of weed in my bowl and he made me light it for him for a solid 20 minutes. After this, Shane decided he needed mittens and we should go to Walmart. I was starting to get visuals in the forest, seeing patterns in the tree branches.
We got to Walmart and Tom had totally taken over the trip at this point. He was telling story after story and talking about all the people in Walmart. As soon as we walked in to Walmart Shane said “The people look like NPCs, in this game”. He meant to say something else but he accidentally said game so we all lol’d a lot. Shane and I were in full blown acid laughing mode, with Tom Lando being hilarious. At one point there was a girl with a tattoo on her face and she was with her boyfriend. They both looked like crackheads and Tom named her “Skyrim”. Tom said that everyone in Walmart was an alien and that Walmart was the intergalactic space port. EVERYONE goes to Walmart. Tom talked a lot about goblins as usual. He said everyone needs a trip goblin, a goblin to guide them through their trip. It was around midnight by now, and the Walmart is open 24h for xmas. There were so many people there. We went to the videogame section and run into Shane’s mom. We lol’d and Shane freaked out a bit cuz he was on acid. We got out of that situation quickly and found Shane some gloves.
We went to the line and the line was huge. I was fully tripping at this point and Tom wasn’t stopping his stories. He was talking about Ork kids buying trading cards. He was talking about this guy with dreads ahead of us having tentacles coming out of his head. Tom was talking really loud and I was laughing really loud, pretty much every one noticed us around us. Tom talked about “Walmart security” trying to be funny and trip us out, saying there was a lot around. He was basically trying to bring attention to us that we were high and it was hilarious to trip us out.
After a half hour line waiting, I paid for the gloves because Shane was too fucked. Tom said he wanted Denny’s so we left the Walmart and went to Denny’s across the street. I had never been to a Denny’s before but it was basically the Walmart of restaurants. Cheap and crackheads/trailer trash everywhere. Tom was looking at the menu and said “I could give you guys my sausage links” legitimately forgetting we were vegetarian, instead of fucking with us about being vegetarian like he always does. He ordered his meal and ate his bacon so morbidly. I don’t particularly remember what we talked about there but we were there for probably an hour.
As we were leaving, I went to the washroom. Near the washroom was a salt water fish tank with the most beautiful fish inside. Looking at the aquarium from the side was the coolest thing and my visuals were going crazy. After looking at it for a while, I went to the bathroom. As I was peeing, I looked at the ground and the pattern on the ground was twisting around and zooming into my eyes. The lines between the colours were growing huge and black. This was one of the most intense visual experiences I had. It looked like a psychedelic gif. I wish I could have played with my visuals more but my friends were waiting for me. We left the Denny’s and decided to go see if Aaron was home. We walked to Aaron’s and knocked on his door. He wasn’t home so we sat on this bench and watched Korgoth of Barbaria. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen.
After watching it, we walked Tom Lando home, sat on a bench near his house, got him more high and Shane and I told stories of our own. Tom got too cold and decided to go home. Shane and I decided to just walk straight, with no plan in mind. We talked about DMT and trips and our feelings about life&death. We got all the way back to South Keys mall and kept going straight. Before we got to the bridge near Walkley, Shane said maybe we should turn back. I said “and go where?” He didn’t argue and we crossed the bridge. At the bottom of the bridge, across the street we see 3 somolians just hanging out and looking sketchy. It was around 3am at this point. Shane whispered something like “let’s just get past these guys, don’t look at them,”. There was no one else around and hardly any cars passing, even though we were on Bank street. These guys started whistling at us to get our attention. Shane repeated himself. They started approaching us and I just looked straight. I was starting to get scared. One of the guys was asking really aggressively “COME HERE SO I CAN ASK YOU A QUESTION.” And had his hand in his hoodie pocket motioning that he had a gun. Shane said “ask me it from here” and the guy kept saying that question and coming closer. I started walking really fast and had my phone out to dial 9-1-1. Shane was walking pretty close behind me, but being the guy he had to acknowledge these guys to leave us alone. They clearly wanted to jack us/kill us/take our things. Shane just kept saying he didn’t have anything and he wanted them to leave us alone. Finally after saying “COME HERE SO I CAN ASK YOU A QUESTION” 5 or 6 times, the guy said “DO YOU HAVE ANY ZIGGYS?” and Shane said “No I’m in the same boat as you man I have nothing” and he asked that a few more times, until we got far enough away.
I booked it at this point until we reached behind this building and I just cried and freaked out. We both thought we were going to die. It was the most terrifying moment of my life. We hugged it out after taking a 5 minute breather and decided to keep walking. We told spooky stories until we got to Billings Bridge. We kept walking until we found a Tim Horton’s and we decided to get coffee. We were still on acid and we just chatted for an hour, getting to know eachother even more. I started talking about beer and how much I love beer and how great it would be to have a beer right now. Shane said “ya that’d be great” I asked him the time, it was about 5am. I said “lets go to hull and get beer!”. We walked to Billings Bridge, caught a 97 immediately and got off at LeBreton.
We started our walk to Hull. There were those cool pipes full of steam blowing their steam off every few seconds. We said that Hull was a steampunk town. We got to a bridge and watched the sunrise. We were looking over the river, at the Parliament buildings. The colour of the sky was a beautiful pink, getting brighter blue as the sun rose. It was the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen. Shane said “It looks like the night and day having sex”. We continued our walk to the Asian corner store on Rue Eddy. We got there and saw it opened at 7:30am. It was 6:45. We decided to walk around Hull and take random streets. The buildings were so nice to look at. Hull is so cute and whimsical. It looked like Tim Burton had built all the buildings. We felt so safe there. We both agreed that we wanted to live in Hull. I showed Shane some clubs I’ve been to in Hull and were all the cool shit is. We walked back to the store and sat down for a bit, waiting for it to open. At 7:40 I realized it was Sunday, and I looked at the Saturday schedule. The store was supposed to open at 8am. We walked more, a different direction and found this HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE mural. It was the coolest street art I had ever seen and it took us probably 10 minutes to look at it all. It was surprising how no one had tagged over it or been a dick and ruined the art. We walked back to the store and a bunch of people had gathered around, waiting for the store to open so they could grab their alcohol. One man was so ugly and old. He looked like a goblin! A real life goblin. He had huge, sticky out, droopy ears and a droopy face. He was wearing his toque so it was barely hanging onto his head. He also had the thickest Irish accent.
Finally the store opened and everyone rushed to the beer section. Shane and I slowly strolled over and took a few mins to decide what we wanted. We each got a king size (710mL) can of Old Milwaukee and a big bag of BBQ Doritos. We walked to the notorious Hull cliff and drank, eating our BBQ chips. Shane said BBQ was a flavor and an event and we lol’d. We were there for a good 45 mins and decided to walk to the bike path in Ottawa, where we were looking, at smoke mad bowls. We walked over the bridge and got to this nice place in the forest, where there was a huge staircase and smoked bowls for half an hour at least. I was really high and drunk at this point and we walked to Rideau to people watch. After a few hours, I decided to go home because I was tired as fuck. Colin texted me on my way home and asked me if I wanted to go to Dee’s so I decided to keep missioning and go to Dee’s.