SUMMARY

	THE 100 DAYS		ONE HUNDRED DAYS TOURING EUROPE		SUMMER OF 1975
		LESSONS	CITIES	DAYS	NIGHTS	MEMORIES
-2	May 24	past & future	Nashville ⇒	likely left nashville on this day	slept on bus	full moon in DC	24
-1	May 25	Falstaff & Cassius	Manhattan	do not know how I got to NYC... bus?	stayed at Jack Williams place in the lower east side	stuffed plane ticket in backpack frame	25
0	May 26	museums	JFK International ⇒ Reykjavik, Iceland ⇒	JFK airport in evening, Reykjavik, Iceland	slept on plane over Ireland to Luxembourg	Metropolitan Museum, maybe MOMA and Guggenheim	26
1	May 27	culture shock	⇒ Luxembourg ⇒ Paris	landed in morning in Luxembourg... train to France	Paris: Kate T. & her two apartment mates	misty in Luxembourg... walked down hill to train.	27
2	May 28	cultural bumpkin	Paris	Paris	6 Place Denfert-Rochereau	culture shock shopping awkwardly in a French outdoor market.	28
3	May 29	museums & eternity	Paris	Louvre, subways, street markets	6 Place Denfert-Rochereau	Louvre sans pyramid.	29
4	May 30	impressions of impressionists	Paris	Montmartre Moreau Tower	6 Place Denfert-Rochereau	Montmartre & Moreau paintings... Eiffel Tower	30
5	May 31	history is where we are	Paris	Place Denfert-Rochereau	6 Place Denfert-Rochereau	Lion of Belfort	31
6	June 1	light & worship & awe	Paris ⇒ Versailles ⇒ Chartres ⇒ Tours	Versailles, Chartres, ride to Tours from Catherine Boyer	Catherine Boyer & Marie-Helene Robert, 3 Allee le Titie, Tours	ride between Versailles and Chartres from fellow who spoke English	1
7	June 2	hiways & maps	Bordeaux ⇒ San Sebastian, Spain ⇒ Vitoria	Portuguese medical student drove me to Lisbon down hiway 3	Vitoria Spain	little car. probably a Fiat? backed off road. pushed it back out of ditch.	2
8	June 3	hiways & help	Spain ⇒ Lisboa	entered Portugal	Lisboa camp site	camp ground hard, but flat.. no grass.	3
9	June 4	Jesus & night train	Portugal ⇒ Valencia de Alcantara, Spain	wrote card to Mouse... took train to Spain	Valencia de Alcantara: woke up in a cow pasture- moo	pulled the emergency cord to stop at border. conductor complained.	4
10	June 5	every place has history & war	Caceras	fellow in red sportscar convertible drove me to Caceres	Caceras: slept in train station?	driver said he would take me to Madrid. Hah! never seen again	5
11	June 6	fear & Heidegger's big blob of Being	Madrid	12 hours in sun standing next to a girl's school- no ride	Madrid in a little room in someone's apartment	gave up and took train to Madrid	6
12	June 7	old new spaces & cultural absolutes	Madrid ⇒ Zaragoza ⇒ Barcelona	Prado, Bosch paintings	slept on train to Barcelona	passengers tried to teach me Spanish quickly	7
13	June 8	Gaudi & AWE	Barcelona ⇒ Perpignan, France ⇒ Narbonne ⇒ Arles ⇒ Marseille	Barcelona, Gaudi Park Guelle, Cathedral, VU students	slept on train to France	coincidentally met VU students in a café	8
14	June 9	Mediterranean heat - vagabond v. rich	Marseille ⇒ Hyeres	train to Marseille	hitched from Marseille to Hyeres	heat of the French Riviera	9
15	June 10	Astrologie Apologia	St. Tropez	hitched along coast: l'cote d'azure	St. Tropez: stayed with Cyrille Briancon aunt Anne Marie Frys	stepping onto a soft beach where sunbathers toasted	10
16	June 11	not doing	St. Tropez	Anne Marie gave me roses to place at the foot of the statue	#7 Rue du Four. cast her horoscope via interpreter	narrow alley streets	11
17	June 12	sacred v. erotic	Nice	of the Virgin Mary of the Roses	Nice	view of Monte Carlo from hillside railroad tracks	12
18	June 13	Pascal's wager	Genova ⇒ Milano	2 exGIs gave ride from Genoa	Milano in motel under construction	bottle of cheap wine... dizziness.	13
19	June 14	Fellini's Casanova	Venezia	St. Marks with Tintorettos	Venezia	canals... pigeons	14
20	June 15	immortality... artists as missionaries and witnesses	Padova ⇒ Monselic	University of Padua	south of Padova in Monselic	pretty coeds grinning at me while sliding thru cafeteria line because they could...power of youth	15
21	June 16	bummer in Bologna	Firenze	fined in Bologna for hitching after 8 to 10 hours on hiway	Firenze	steep hills and roads with cars honking horns while spiraling up them	16
22	June 17	erotic v sacred tombs	Firenze ⇒ Siena ⇒ Hiway 6	Uffizi and David statue	past Siena on hiway 6	running thru Uffizi before it closed	17
23	June 18	flat v deep space	Roma	Tuscany & Umbria landscapes	Roma	downtown waiting for bus in heat	18
24	June 19	idolatry	Roma ⇒ Brindisi	Sistine Chapel at 8 am opening	train to Brindisi	running thru the Sistine Chapel to lay on bench and view the ceiling before the crowd arrived	19
25	June 20	stages of religion	Brindisi ⇒ Patrai ⇒ Athinai	ferry to Greece and bus to Athens	Athinai in Hostel	heat in hostel... viewing up to the Parthenon	20
26	June 21	theology in architecture	Athinai ⇒ Mikonos ⇒	climbed the Acropolis hillside to the Parthenon the hard way	boat to Mikonos named Mimikal then larger boat to Patmos	small boat then ferry boat to Patmos	21
27	June 22	visions: sacred & profane	Patmos	explored southward along coastline of Patmos	Patmos: slept in a cave in a rock on goat pellets	Swedish couple nude in a tide pool... Greek sailor's hand gestures	22
28	June 23	boredom v. idyllic	Patmos	explored 1000 year old Monastery	Patmos: slept in a cave in a rock on goat pellets	white stucco walls of monastery on hill top	23
29	June 24	purpose transcendence mysticism witnessing	Patmos	fisherman & conch shell	Patmos: slept in a cave in a rock on goat pellets	boredom... fisherman tries to sell me a conch shell	24
30	June 25	sensory exhaustion v cultural deprivation	Patmos	wrote Mom a letter while sitting on a rock overlooking the sea	Patmos: slept in a cave in a rock on goat pellets	more boredom	25
31	June 26	islands & polytheism	Patmos ⇒ Mikonos ⇒ Athinai	boating back to Athens	boat to Athens	escape from Patmos	26
32	June 27	cultural decay & racial purity	Athinai	a gallery of modern greek art - not so great	Athens in hostel	tired of hitching, called Jo Blitch, my travel agent in Nashville, for a Eurail pass...	27
33	June 28	kingdoms & catholicism	Athinai ⇒ Larisa, Macedonia ⇒	train ride thru northern Greece	train to Yugoslavia	Greek mountains of old Macedonia	28
34	June 29	work v. jobs	⇒ Gevgelija, Yugoslavia ⇒ Skopje ⇒ Nis ⇒ Beograd ⇒ Zagreb ⇒Maribor ⇒ Graz ⇒ Wien	entered Yugoslavia: standing room only with the hungry hoards	slept in mail car on mailbags	torture of standing mile after endless mile... man plowing field with mule	29
35	June 30	purity & kinky	⇒ Beograd ⇒ Zagreb ⇒Maribor ⇒ Spielfeld-Straa, Austria ⇒ Graz ⇒ Wien	entered Austria	Wien in a hostel walkup 3 or 4 flights	baroque style of architecture in hostel	30
36	July 1	beauty v. lust	Wien ⇒ Melk ⇒ Amstetten ⇒ Salzburg ⇒ Munchen ⇒	Klimts in Vienna galleries... Vienna woods	slept on train to Germany	picked up Eurail pass in Vienna... officially began on July 2	1
37	July 2	new art v. old art	Munchen ⇒ Buchloe ⇒ St. Margrethen, Switz ⇒ Zurich ⇒ Bern	Munchen searched for Klimts	slept on floor at Bern, Switzerland train station with other travelers	trains stopped running at 2 am... Swiss obsession with cleanliness on station floor	2
38	July 3	heaven & the ineffable	Bern ⇒ Lausanne ⇒ Geneva ⇒ Sion ⇒ Brig ⇒ Spiez ⇒ Lenk	Geneva, train and bus ride through Switzerland	Lenk in a Swiss valley... slept in a pasture of grass with view of mountains	mountain cabins with expensive cars	3
39	July 4	rich & poor & mountains	Lenk ⇒ Spiez ⇒ Brig ⇒ Interlaken ⇒ Luzern ⇒ Andermatt ⇒ Locarno ⇒ Dormodossola ⇒ Brig	down Alps to Domodossola, Italy and back up	to Brig, Switzerland	Disneyland mountain train... the little train that could and did	4
40	July 5	limits of paradise	Brig ⇒ Andermott ⇒ St. Moritz ⇒ Davos ⇒ Buchs ⇒ Innsbruck ⇒ Salzburg ⇒	St. Moritz, toured Switzerland	slept on train to Vienna	man opened trapdoor and climbed out of shelter buried in snow... walked along mountain ridge	5
41	July 6	liquidity of paint	Wien ⇒	returned to view Klimts again	slept on train thru Germany	Vienna woods with evenly spaced trees	6
42	July 7	castles v. cathedrals :: dark v. light	Wien ⇒ Frankfurt ⇒ Bonn ⇒ Koln ⇒ Emmerich ⇒	Rhine boat ride Frankfurt to Cologne cathedral	entered Netherlands. Slept on train...	boat ride up the Rhine	7
43	July 8	Rembrandt v. Van Gogh v. Vermeer compared	⇒ Utrecht ⇒ Amsterdam ⇒ The Hague ⇒ Delft ⇒ Rotterdam ⇒ Essen	Rembrandt's Nigth Watch, Vermeers, Van Gogh Gallery	Essen hostel?	somewhere met a man who owned film company and he offered me a job as animator.	8
44	July 9	suits & uniforms	Essen ⇒ Antwerpen ⇒ Bruxelles ⇒ Leuven ⇒ Liege ⇒ Clervaux	visited film studio in Brussels... interviewed for job with no suit on... no no...	Clervaux campground	visited his son in Brussels at company. After viewing my clothes, he was not interested in my talents.	9
45	July 10	Ms. E's Floporium & random connections	Clervaux ⇒ Marburg	Steffi's house... Ms. E's house...	Marburg: stayed with Tom Fox's friend Steffi Newell	waking up to the morning sunlight on Steffi's shoulder	10
46	July 11	Heidegger critique	Marburg	loitered at university	355 Marburg, Kleine Ortenberggasse 3	University of Marburg lawn	11
47	July 12	narcissism :: sexual attraction :: personal & collective guilt	Marburg	Steffi shows me Jewish graveyard and asks forgiveness	355 Marburg, Kleine Ortenberggasse 3	walking down a path with Steffi came upon a Jewish holocaust marker	12
48	July 13	fairy tales, pastries, gluttony	Marburg ⇒ Gottingen ⇒ Hanover ⇒ Bremen ⇒ Hamburg ⇒ Lubeck ⇒	Hanover, Bremen, Hamburg	slept on train to Denmark	ceiling of beams in Copenhagen train station	13
49	July 14	viking descendants	⇒ Puttgarden ⇒ Rodb-Faerge ⇒ Kobenhavn ⇒ Stockholm ⇒	entered Denmark: visited little mermaid statue. onto Stockholm	slept on train thru Sweden	little mermaid.. Stockholm from a distance	14
50	July 15	GOD qua metaphor	⇒ Vannas ⇒ Bastutrask ⇒ Narvik, Norway	northern Sweden: large mosquitoes in woods	Narvik, Norway: tried sleeping in caboose in train yard, but sun never set	could not sleep in the caboose because of midnite sun... chilly in sleeping bag	15
51	July 16	nudes & fjords	Narvik ⇒ Fauske	bus to Fauske... the fjords! Sent postcard to Jim B.	Fauske, Norway	fjords	16
52	July 17	Vikings became Christians...Why?	Trondheim ⇒ Oslo ⇒	Trondheim	train thru Norway. No night or day	more fjords	17
53	July 18	Munch gloom v. Vigeland joy :: art & angst of civilization	⇒ Oslo ⇒ Goteborg ⇒	Oslo. Looked for Munch paintings. They were in the streets.	slept thru Sweden	in Oslo, people walked around like zombies in a Munch painting: morose and depressed	18
54	July 19	brief encounters :: lasting guilt & shallow feelings	Helsingor ⇒ Kopenhavn ⇒ Hamburg ⇒ Bremen ⇒	Goteborg, entered Denmark, Copenhagen	slept thru Bremen, Dusseldorf, France to Paris	young lady wanted me for a traveling companion... I declined	19
55	July 20	lefties :: minorities & majorities	⇒ Dusseldorf ⇒ Koln ⇒ Liege ⇒ Paris	visited Kate... she would not let me stay... looked up Cyrille's gay brother	Paris with Maxime & Chris in Montmarte.	revisited Kate T. said goodbyes on her stairway...	20
56	July 21	Picasso critique	Paris	revisited museums and galleries	Paris with Maxime & Chris in Montmarte.	Max & Chris escorted me thru Paris at night... fed me couscous in Algerian café	21
57	July 22	religious wars along the way	Paris ⇒ Limoges ⇒ Toulous ⇒ Spain ⇒	south to Spain	on train to Spain	rhythm of the tracks... clip-clop clip-clop	22
58	July 23	Gaudi revisited	⇒ Portbou ⇒ Barcelona ⇒ Villanueva y Geltru	entered Spain at Portbou... onto Barcelona	slept in Villanueva y Geltru on beach	in the morning, another look at Gaudi... office building. apartment building. cathedral.	23
59	July 24	Pyrenees v. Yosemite	Villanueva y Geltru ⇒ Barcelona ⇒ Puigcerda ⇒	looked for Carson Beal at last known address... Pyrenees & Yosemite	Puigcerda at the Pyrenees on the border with France	Pyrenees remind me of Yosemite	25
60	July 25	games & sports	⇒ Toulouse ⇒ Brive-la-Gaillarde	retraced Tour de France	Brive-la-Gaillarde	French pastries	25
61	July 26	time & age	⇒ Niversac ⇒ Les Eyzies ⇒ Thenon ⇒ Bordeaux ⇒ La Rochelle	cave paintings & Bordeaux	La Rochelle	sent Ms. E postcard from Bordeaux	26
62	July 27	Gauguin	Nantes ⇒ Quimberon-St. Pierre	Atlantic coast, Nantes, Brittany	Quimberon-St. Pierre	no memory... another beach... another bay	27
63	July 28	the vicarious Norman	Mont St. Michel ⇒ Pontor-Son	Mont St. Michel. Bus to door but too poor to enter	Pontor-Son	the door... the monk... the sand	28
64	July 29	gluttony & punishment	Omaha Beach ⇒ Port-en-Bessin	Omaha Beach eating clams till tide rolled in	slept on Omaha beach till tide rolled in. fishermen rescued me. slept in pillbox	clams... water... fishermen... pillbox	29
65	July 30	kitsch	Bayeaux ⇒ Paris ⇒ LeCrotoy ⇒	back in Paris, musee of Gustav Moreau revisited	Paris again	visited Normandy graveyards of Americans & Germans... Bayeaux tapestry	30
66	July 31	bigus dickus	⇒ Boulogne ⇒ Calais ⇒ Dover ⇒ London	Boulogne... entered England	slept on way to London	crossing channel at night	31
67	August 1	Daphne	London	London & Daphne Fraenkel	London: Daphne Fraenkel's small apartment	Eurail pass ended when I entered England... Daphne's red hair & mauve scarf	1
68	August 2	Tate & Turner	London	Tate Gallery	Laura Richie's 75 year old French friend	Turners in Tate	2
69	August 3	medieval art	London	British Museum	Laura' brother first met Daphne at a concert	medieval relics in silver	3
70	August 4	philosophy of science	London	Science Museum	Daphne printed vanity books for poets	antique scientific instruments in brass	4
71	August 5	British landscape school :: nature tamed :: parks & re-creation	London	Parks & Re-Creation	published under Carrefour Press	Hyde Park grass... Kensington lawn	5
72	August 6	Royal Ballet :: dance & learning	London	Royal Ballet	once friends with Henry Miller	took Daphne to Royal Ballet	6
73	August 7	Rocky Horror :: musician's life	London	Rocky Horror Show musical	slept under her printing press	took Daphne to Rocky Horror musical... no lights	7
74	August 8	Genet Flowers :: existentialism & duality	London	Jean Genet "Flowers" play	for 9 nights	took Daphne to Genet's Flowers	8
75	August 9	country outing :: trivia in haute couture	London	day in the country... Daphne gave me two suits with 28" waist... wore one to outing	last night before tour of Wales & Ireland & Scotland	driving narrow country roads... met Amanda Hayes... 16 The Mall-East Sheen-London SW14	9
76	August 10	Alice :: porn & college	London ⇒ Oxford	hitched northwest to Oxford	slept at Oxford University	Oxford... brick walls with arched entrances	10
77	August 11	capitalism & philanthropy	Oxford ⇒ Swansea	hitched to Swansea	Swansea in Wales	unpronounceable names of towns	11
78	August 12	fighting future friends	Swansea ⇒ Cork ⇒	wandered & waited for ferry to Cork	slept on ferry to Cork	dark skinned Irish probably part Spanish & Moor	12
79	August 13	openess	⇒ Cork ⇒ Macroom	visited the Blarney Stone	near Macroom & druid spirits of Munster	observed the kissers but did not kiss	13
80	August 14	everlasting loving	Macroom ⇒ Kenmare ⇒ Killarny ⇒ Tralee ⇒ Listowel ⇒ Kildysart	newlyweds in VW gave ride up the east coast	Kildysart on Shannon River near wreck of Matrisha	honeymooners	14
81	August 15	reincarnation	Kildysart ⇒ Ennis ⇒ Quin ⇒ Ennis ⇒ Corofin ⇒ Gort ⇒ north of Gort	visited pub in town of Quin... pubbers looked like my uncles... surprise!	north of Gort around Coole Park with swans	faces of Quin pubbers	15
82	August 16	belief & faith	Athenry ⇒ Galway ⇒ Clifden ⇒ north of Leenane	admiration of stone wall builder	north of Leenane slept in barn of a deserted farmhouse... picked up lice	deserted farmhouse	16
83	August 17	poetry & rap	Westport ⇒ Castlebar ⇒ Ballina ⇒ Easkey ⇒ Sligo ⇒ north of Ballyshannon	visited Yeats grave & little red school house	north of Ballyshannon in a little red school house	redheads of Donegal county	17
84	August 18	friendly v. unfriendly	Donegal ⇒ Derry ⇒ Dublin	escape from Northern Ireland	Dublin	friendly family drove me to Derry...guns & barbed wire... postman drove me out of Northern Ireland	18
85	August 19	temporal v. eternal families	Dublin ⇒ Liverpool ⇒	Book of Kells at Trinity Church... looked up family crests	Harp Ferry to Liverpool	Trinity Church & Book of Kells... wrote mom letter and sent her Irish coins...	19
86	August 20	illustrate v. touch	Liverpool ⇒ Preston ⇒ M6 ⇒ Larkhall ⇒ Edinburgh ⇒ Dalkeith	hitched from Liverpool to Glasgow to Edinburgh museum	Dalkeith: south of Edinburgh	met Stephen J. Shorten from Ballylinan, Athy in Cokildare, Ireland on ferry.	20
87	August 21	marriages & walls	Dalkeith ⇒ NewCastle	hitching south to England... Hadrian's wall	Newcastle: Amanda Hayes house	outside the walls of row houses of factory workers... Amanda Hayes country suburban house	21
88	August 22	drugs	NewCastle	Newcastle-on-Tyne	Newcastle: Amanda Hayes house	large ice cream cone... Amanda and two friends left for London	22
89	August 23	doing nothing :: stopping time	NewCastle	day of rest alone	Newcastle: Amanda Hayes house	being relaxed & alone... deep breathing	23
90	August 24	hitching	NewCastle ⇒ Gateshead	hitched only a few miles south of Newcastle	Gateshead in a deserted oily grease factory	miserable rain & drizzle	24
91	August 25	lending unwanted ear	Gateshead ⇒ Durham ⇒ Sheffield ⇒ Nottingham ⇒ Leicester ⇒ London	talked a family of 4 into giving me a ride to London down M1	London: Daphne Fraenkel's small apartment again	awkward feeling of being unwanted	25
92	August 26	Hockney & Pre-Raphaelites :: 2 styles :: 2 attitudes	London	Tate revisited... Pre-Raphaelites v. David Hockney	Carrefour printing press underneath	Ophelia	26
93	August 27	books & blogs	London	British Library searching for illuminated manuscripts	Carrefour printing press underneath	antique books... illuminated manuscripts	27
94	August 28	clocks & time	London	Greenwich Observatory	Carrefour printing press underneath	standing on the universal time line	28
95	August 29	shopping & cheapness	London	shopped at Piccadilly Circus: bought brown bathrobe, Russian dolls	Carrefour printing press underneath	packing a box or trunk to be sent back with suits and other stuff... arrived a month later	29
96	August 30	music & Mahler & romanticism	London	Royal Albert Hall for NY Philharmonic	Carrefour printing press underneath	clarinet player joking with college kids	30
97	August 31	Daphne v. Bruges	London ⇒ Dover ⇒ Bruges, Belgium ⇒	train & ferry to Belgium	Bruges, Belgium	no memory of Bruges... probably visited its tower	31
98	September 1	wars & Flemish painters :: oils v. acrylics	⇒ Bruges ⇒ Brussels ⇒	museum in Brussels... Flemish painters	Brussels	money exchange in Brussells... back to US dollars...	1
99	September 2	retreat & PTSD	⇒ Brussels ⇒ Luxembourg	train from Brussels to Luxembourg	Luxembourg slept at airport	climbing hill to airport... flying away... chasing the sun	2
100	September 3	unique feelings	Luxembourg ⇒ Iceland ⇒ JFK ⇒ George Washington Bridge ⇒ Wilmington, Delaware	Iceland, JFK, George Washington Bridge by midnite and hitched thru the night	Wilmington Bridge in Delaware on I-95	surreal subway elevator... GWB toll booth... proposition... hitching in the Jersey dark	3
101	September 4	drug highs & lows	Wilmington ⇒ Greensboro, NC	woke at noon and hitched south	Greensboro, NC: stayed with Jan and Jim again	Wilmington toll booth... houses under transmission towers	4
102	September 5	divorce	Greensboro	rested up in Greensboro	Greensboro, NC: stayed with Jan and Jim and daughter Jessica	Jessica walking and crying behind me	5
103	September 6	The Farm & utopias	Greensboro ⇒ west of Knoxville	hitched west	I-75 & I-40 split west of Knoxville at exit 368	standing at the I75 and I40 split	6
104	September 7	Mom's house	Harriman ⇒ Nashville	return to Nashville 128 pounds with 28" waist	2145 Byrum?	visiting Mom and her plants	7
105	September 8	what's a journal for?	Nashville	symphony begins season with Italian Street Fair	2004 21st Ave S.	returning to Ms. E's... Hello! I'm Back!	8