We gathered at Julie's to go out to lunch. Rob showed up and so did a gaggle of Julie's family including cousins, aunts, uncles & nieces & nephews. Her basement looked just like mine but it was neat & clean & painted bright blue.
When we went out to the car, the street & houses all looked real small. Rob noticed it, too. The street was brick which looked kind of out of place for the mid 20th century cottage houses on the street.
There was a kid sleeping in the car which presented a dilemma since there wasn't room for 5 in the car.

Somehow I wound up at a service station in, like, Iowa or Minneota or something. I was on vacation & was having car problems. The tall thin, geekily cute vlonde manager was helpful but the staff was kind of surly & jerkish. They worked on my car & I went off riding around sight-seeing on my bicycle while the work was being done. I found & rode around a large abandoned factory grounds and through a modest to nice neighborhood probably constructed in the 20s or 40s. It was fall.
I got back to the service station & work was semi done but there was some problem with the bike & car. Bike rack? Again, the manager (Tina?) was very nice and apologized for the ill mannered staff.

The place I used to work at had been taken over by a clothing retailer. Dunno why I was there but the owners were talking to contractors about remodeling the place. It was going to be more expensive that the owners expected.

In my dream, Romans used stone from Italy for construction in Egypt. This required large heavy slabs to be transported down the Nile. Problem was, the Nile would get real low every year. I was on a boat transporting stone & it got stuck in a shallow part & as we waited for waters to rise, they just went down & the bed actually dried up where we were. I watched the bed dry up in a kind of time lapse photography. The water, even as it was ponding, was bright blue.

Was playing with a cat out on the street I lived on as a kid. Everybody had large gates out in front of their houses.
LATER
Was at my job in a large old building with very high ceilings. It kinda looked like my old junior high school.

There were a lot of people there & a lot of us didn't know what to do. I didn't. I did not know who my boss was, either. At one point I met a tall kinda statuesque black girl who, as it turned out, practiced Vodou. She had made a little snow globe thingie with a little Haitian hut inside. Anyway, I got some work but I had no idea where to do it. Then an older woman showed me a room off a room off a room that had the stuff I needed to photograph large tapestry type stuff. It looked like somebody's large 1 room apartment.

Joy & her new boyfriend had moved into the house up the street around the corner. A previous owner had added a large sunroom onto the side of the house & her boyfriend decided to turn it into an illegal bar.
The problem (besides no licensing) was, he didn't have any money so he was relying on everybody helping him & doing the work for him. Joy certainly didn't want to be a waitress & cook & when she protested, he knocked her around.
I wouldn't give him any money but agreed to do an errand. As I was walking up the street I ran into a group of guys. We talked & I wound up going off with them and abandoning the errand.

In the future, maybe on another world, riots and chaos had broken out. Volcanoes, earthquakes & floods were rampant. I was in a group of people who were trying to pull it back together. We sought out some guy who had something going for him, dunno what. We found his apartment tower. It was fortified but we got in. Power wasn't steady. Tremors shook the building & cracked the walls. Some of the residents had left and some were staying put. Our guy was on one of the top floors. We struggled to get up there. We found him and his wife. We explained our mission (which I don't remember) and gathered some supplies & started down to escape the building. The mobs had breached security, tho & we had to elude them to get out. When we got out of the building & hit the grounds, it was night. The grounds around the building were flat & grassy surrounded by woods. We took off into the night.