"Dear Lord, am I
really doing this?!"
A Few Good Men. Red eye over England. Bennie and her mom. Mayhem in the marketplace. The brothers. Lots of wine. The village countryside. The pissing statue. The dark hospital. The odd pizza. "Coke is better than beer!" The American compatriots. A prophecy fulfilled. The peculiar picnic. A strange place to celebrate the Fourth of July. The haunted ruins. The jibber-jabbering Belgian lady. Helping the three Russian students. A kiss on the hand for a real queen. "Le stupid American!"
The Piano. Andre's crazy cop cousin. The towering fortress on the river. The blood of Jesus Christ. Real magic. Cows at 150 miles per hour. The Eiffel Tower. The Bosnian refugees. The dead body in the alley. The Maquisard. The hunt for the Hard Rock Cafe. The singing drunk Frenchman. The four Dutch lasses. The unicycling saxaphonist. The Canadian Richard Petty fan. The two Valley Girls.
Alive with medical commentary by Bennie. The long walk straight up. Gazing toward Hamburg. "She's out there somewhere." The canal tour. The carnival. Going home. Business class. Discussing Napoleon with a fellow passenger.
Home Alone 2. Seeing the World Trade Center towers for the first and last time. The missionary family. Touchdown at Raleigh-Durham. Back.
And there was more, much more, that I am still leaving out from what was my first big adventure in the great wide world, that started fifteen years ago today.
Just the first. There have been others since then. And there will no doubt be many more in the years to come.
Zavel, if by some chance you ever read this: I found Christy. It took me over ten years, but I found her and she was every bit as sweet and beautiful as you described her to be. And I passed along your message to her, too. I don't know if you will get to know that but when I think about how it was that I found her, anything is possible.
Shawn, if you ever read this, I still have the flag that you gave me, dude!
Amazing how something that happened fifteen years ago can still impact one's life.
Anyhoo, it was one of the greatest times of my entire life, and I thought it was worth making a note of here :-)
2 comments:
"The haunted ruins."
What haunted ruins? Got a good ghost story?
It was the ruins of a medieval abbey, said to be haunted by the ghost of monks who once lived there. People have reported hearing and seeing things over the years. I thought I heard something weird there too, but not any more weird than the usual :-)
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