Monday, August 08, 2005

An Ode to Bonzo

Well.. unfortunately as is apparent from the date of this post, I am back in the states. In fact, I have been back since Thursday night... but Thursday's travel back to the states is a blog in and of itself.. what a nightmare.. but that is for another blog! This blog shall be dedicated to an interesting guy we met on the Eurorail on the way to Florence.. Bonzo..

Bonzo was such an interesting guy.. looking at him, you would think he was such a dopey, fun loving... benign type of guy. But man, talk about depth to a person! He was so friendly, we talked to him for about 2 and a half hours on the train. He was really into heavy metal music, used to have a real real long goatee, is part of the Italian Tolkein society, and used to do the scary devil sounding voice in a heavy metal band... oh, and he wears a necklace with celtic symbols on it.. interesting! What a crazy combination of things. At one point he even demonstrated his devil voice.. oh my God it was so scary to hear such an inhuman sound come from him! It was so funny listening to him talk about his life in his broken italian/english.. he even offered us some gum!

We met a ton of really interesting peopole in Europe, including a woman who had been backpacking for the last 20 years.. but Bonzo was definitely one of the coolest!

And now, back in the states.. the next project is getting the apartment set up.. making impromptu trips to visit the bf.. (yesterday I drove 6 hours to see him in MN, and then drove 6 hours back in the morning... for a culminated stay of about 12 hours... but it was fun!)

And soon medical school!

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