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I finished drawing my second animated film “Desert Dive Inn” during my separation and divorce from Sayer. On the basis of that film I received a Bush Foundation Fellowship in 1997. The stipend at that time was thirty-six thousand dollars, a fortune to me. My first thought upon opening the notification letter was, “I’ll take a leave of absence from the Arts High School,” where I was then teaching, “and travel to the Greek Islands to find the clifftop house from ‘Contempt.’”
I booked a flight to from Minneapolis to Rome, leaving in February of 1998 and returning in April. This was to be my first trip to Europe, my first experience with jet lag, my first extended foray outside of my own language and by the time I arrived in a tiny penzione near the Termini Station in Rome, I was pretty bewildered.

It was only 5 Rome time when I arrived and I was already desperate for sleep. But everyone told me to try to stay awake until 10 the first day, so I started walking around. Saw an American girl holding a “Let’s Go Rome” book, crying in the street. Two other girls in floral print skirts were begging coins in front of the church Santa Maria Maggiore. Inside there were confessional booths specifically designated: English, French, German, Spanish. It’s a lonely feeling to walk around a strange, busy city without the language. You feel very shy. I’ve just committed myself to ten weeks of this.
I eventually bought an odd-smelling sausage and some bread with great timidity in a small grocery and then slept heavily

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from Path Through the Wilderness, released September 7, 2019
Reid Kruger - Drums
Tom Schroeder - Guitar
Jeremy Ylvisaker - Guitar
Jonathan Zorn - Bass

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