September 3rd 1999 Pt. 2
ohhhh boy. it’s been a week- & then some. realized last night i’d been
behaving as if i were joined to alex @ th hip. where do i begin?
finally hiked/ walkd into pfarrkirchen today- a roundabout way by
breitenbach & furcht (?) that made it about 15 or so kilometers- maybe
16,
so just about ten miles…it’s alex’s turn to be under th weather- just
as
th weather clears & he gets ready to go back to hamburg w/ his new
girlfriend vanessa, who came down for a visit last thursday. we’ll board
th
inter-city together tomorrow, i change trains for weimar @ fulda…
maybe i shd do something like a chronology…
so i took th train from amsterdam to munich on tuesday. met christopher,
alex’s hometown bud & th ultimate party machine, running on coffee, beer,
cigarettes & a new infatuation every other day. in
th week & a half since i met him, i’ve only seen him eat once: last
night,
when we got some pizzas to go from ‘il cavallino’, a kitschy-elegant
trattoria that seems to be th only restaurant among
th downtown pfarrkirchen strip of pastry shop-cafes…
i’d had half a bottle of macon for w/ a late lunch salad & cheese plate
on
th amsterdam train, & a tomato soup & some tortellini w/ th same canned
tomato soup for a sauce late in th evening, close to arriving in munich.
anyway, i caught th christopher bug- had a big hefe-weizen & a shot of
tequila @ a student-run bar known as ‘manhattan’, on top of th tallest
dorm
in th student residence compound, & got kind of chilld on th windy
terrace
looking over th town talking to amy from detroit…it was nearly four in
th
morning by th time we arranged our sleeping places & i woke up on eclipse
wednesday, august 11, w/ a bad sore throat…nursed it w/ an
echt-bayerische
breakfast of weisswurst, pretzel & sweet mustard, then alternatively
‘oohhh’d’ & ‘awwww’d’ along w/ th gathered crowd as clouds played w/ th
visibility of th event as totality approached…