We did all of our downtown errands on foot today. In an effort to get exercise and reduce our carbon footprint we drove to downtown Northampton and parked on Gothic Street in on of the 10 hour metered spots and walked up to Main Street and then headed west to the Forbes Library on West Street. Along our way we ran into Jim DuBois and his girlfriend, Phoebe, who were also doing errands on foot. Jim lives downtown on West Street and doesn't own a car so doing errands on foot is totally normal for him. We chatted with them and compared errands. Us: library, bank, post office, health food store, comic store. Them: bank, post office, stationary store.
We headed to the library where we ran into Tim "the deaf guy" (that's what we call him, I really don't know his name). When we were finished at the library we headed back to the truck on Gothic Street to drop off the big bag of movies, music and books before heading to the bank and then down Main Street to the Post Office and across the street to Modern Myths (Trevor) and Lamson Goodnow (me). Once we had our stash of comic books and kitchen stuff we headed back up Main Street to Thornes Market and went to Cornucopia for bread, fruit, tofu, snacks and treats. Along the way Trevor remembered that he needed to go to the hardware store for something and since he prefers Florence Hardware (not on our way home) over Foster-Farrar (on our way home) we increased our carbon footprint. Better luck next time.
It was fun anyway. We were downtown for about 2 hours and got everything done and got some exercise!
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