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| Here I am with Bryden. You will read all about him below. Jim was nice
enough to send me this image for Christmas 2000. Thanks Jim, your a pal! |
ITALY by Jim - 1993
TUESDAY APRIL 20Th
At 4:00 p.m. Bryden Pennock picked us at the airport in Turin, Italy. We named him
the flaming ass hole. No truer words were ever spoken. He was late picking us
up in Torino, didn't help us with our luggage and drove like a man possessed. He
went out into an intersection and people were hitting his car as they walked by yelling at
him. It didn't bother him at all. He hit a car with his mirror, spring tension
so it was minor. The more we made fun of him, the faster he would drive. He
scared the shit out of Pete and I. The fastest driver I ever rode with. He
drives on the highways 100 to 120 MPH and he was looking around, talking and he stopped in
the middle of town (Torino, 1,000,000 people), at the police station to ask if we could
use the restroom. The police said no. Bryden said he was being a
f---ing asshole. He never shut up all the time we spent with
him. I, I, I, I, I worse than Arlen Badersnider and he expected us to pay for
everything, including tolls. He did pay for us getting into a castle, "I think",
(they asked us twice if we paid). He drove up to the castle and they told him to
move his car, that pissed him off and he had to drive down to hell and gone. Pete
and I stayed at the castle and laughed at him. He did show us a lot of the
countryside in a short period of time. We saw many castles and a lot of villages
(very old stuff). The pictures should be super. We ate original Italian pizza
for supper, and went to the hotel about 11:00 p.m. The rooms would be less than
average in the U.S.A., but okay, though very noisy
"goodnight".
WEDNESDAY APRIL 21ST
Bryden picked us up around 8:00 a.m. to go sightseeing around the countryside (more
castles). Then we went to the French Alps and up to the Matterhorn, wow! what a
view. He's still driving like an idiot, I was getting car sick from all of the turns
and speed. Pete and I got on him again about slowing down. Pete told him to
slow down or he was going to punch him, he slowed down for 5 minutes. We walked on a
Roman road build in 1200, unbelievable. Bryden's wife showed up at the pizza place the
night before, he treated her like dirt, what an asshole. Pete and I both tried not
to talk with him because you couldn't shut him up. His favorite words were,
basically, absolutely not, he never just said yes or no. We went to the plant about
2:00 p.m. and spent the rest of the day there. We talked with Bill Goodall
too. Went for more pizza with Bryden (why not, it's free for him), cheap son of a
bitch. The pizza had squid and anchovies on it, I'm not impressed. Went to bed about
11:00 p.m.
ThURSDAY. APRIL 22ND
Got up at 8:00 a.m. and had red orange juice (not bad), that's all we had for
breakfast. We can't afford to eat. Just outside of the hotel they had an open
air market, very neat. We went looking for a doll for Erv, also went down some 400
year old stairs. We found the doll. Pete also bought his girls a couple of
dolls. We saw a fish market and it stunk like crazy. We ate lunch at a small cafe
and had white ham. The bathroom had stand up shitters (the plant also has
them). They won't use sit down ones because they are not sanitary enough.
Bryden lined us up with a guy to give us a ride to the airport at 1:00 p.m., the guy was
late and we were ready to kill him. "Bryden", I've never disliked anyone
as much as this asshole, (Pete agrees). Glad to get out of this country . Very
dirty and don't like people either. Very pretty scenery though.
I don't know why I'm writing a log on this, Pete "Cecil B. DeMills" has about
4 hours of video so far. Boy! will that be boring for anyone that has to watch
it. I feel sorry for Elaine, maybe she can sleep through it.
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