The following excerpt is taken from my journal while backpacking in Europe in the summer of 1990. Please keep in mind that I was an excitable 22 year old writer back then full of bright-eyed enthusiasm – and exclamation marks. :) Thursday, July 19th, 1990 Right now I’m on a Versailles, France train bound for […]
Monday, July 16, 1990 After the Running of the Bulls, I was on a mission to get to Berlin for the Roger Water’s performance of the The Wall. However, Danny did not want to visit Germany and we split off. He was my main runnin’ pardner going the distance with me for the longest stretch […]
Wed July 11, 1990 Danny and I took a slight detour from Barcelona. We had to stop in Nice in order to switch trains, and we decided to catch a night train out of Nice to connect directly to Pamplona, Spain for the Running of the Bulls! So while in Nice, we used the […]
Tuesday July 10, 1990 Venice is Awesome!!! It is so beautiful, so romantic, so charming, so everything. It was nothing like I imagined. As soon as you walk out of the train station – you hit water. The entire city is built on canals and waterways. There is not one car in the entire city. […]
Saturday June 30, 1990 Well, today is the day of the “Concert of the Decade” in London at the Knebworth House. Pink Floyd, Tears for Fears, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Ray Cooper, Robert Plant (with guest Jimmy Page), Status Quo and Phil Collins with Genesis were all set to appear. […]