After a short refueling of the stomaches, Sandra and I headed out to check out the city. She had lived here back in the 80s and 90s and wanted to see how things were and point out places to me.
We drove up High Street into an area called Short North, a bustling area of galleries and restaurants. It was always a hip spot, but Sandra was a bit shocked by how much it had gentrified and grew. Lots of people were out milling around; the scene reminded me of "hip" neighborhoods like Lincoln Park or Bucktown back in Chicago.
We continued north and along the campus. For Sandra, it was a memory lane as she comented on that place was this or that's still here. We briefly turned off High so she could show me a couple of her old places in which she lived. After undergraduate elsewhere, she did advanced studies at Ohio State, so she had spent eight years in Columbus. It was her town for quite a while.
We ended up at Dick's Den, which was her watering hole. It wasn't part of the typical student's fashion back when she was a student but more a grad student and local hangout, and by judging the age of the patrons, it still wasn't for the undergrads. A jazz band played, and despite being Friday night, we found seats at the bar.
Dick's didn't seem particularly hopping on the night, and we sat and drank a few reasonably priced beers, capping the start of the trip.
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