Our next adventure starts six months
from today.
That's right; August 28th
you (virtually) and I (literally) will embark on our latest European
adventure, an adventure that will actually be (by one day) the
longest we've ever undertaken. For thirteen days we'll be traipsing
around Bavaria in search of items concerning Mad (or just ahead of
his time, depending upon how you look at things) King Ludwig.
It should be a lot of fun.
Loraine's really outdone herself with
this trip, researching just about every castle, statue, and monument
to the dude, so that we can (hopefully) check them all out. We'll be
staying in (I think) seven different places, visiting towns left and
right, and doing a couple of things we haven't yet had the chance to
do—spend an entire day hiking up a mountain to a castle
inaccessible by car, and joining hundreds of people filing into a
theater to see a German musical about the King.
I've written about that particular
aspect of the trip before—that's the one where you have to fold the
ticket exactly to their specifications, lest they not let you into
the theater. Don't worry, though. We've been practicing.
This might be the first ever trip we've
taken that will contain absolutely no research for Loraine in it.
Even during the trips we took that we billed as “vacations” (2012
and 2016) we did do some work for her. But this time around? I
don't believe so. The entire journey will be in a (fairly) small
area of southern Germany, a place where American troops really didn't
do much during World War II, and where none of her “guys” had
their final moments.
But that hasn't stopped her from from
coming up with an amazing itinerary that will involve, aside from
hiking & musical theater, taking ferries, driving through
mountain roads, and having to be at specific places at specific times
because, well, Germans are Germans and sometimes won't let you do
something if you don't follow the rules (you know, like how your fold
your theater tickets). She also made sure that we have time to eat
at some of our favorite places, buy some of our favorite chocolates,
and, assuming the weather holds, just be able to play outside. The
last time we were in this part of Germany, with our parents in 2015,
it was rainy or cold or both, so we figure the area owes us a little
nice weather.
Keep your fingers crossed for that.
Like I said, we leave six months from
today, As always, we'll make sure we post everything we can on our trip blog, so you get to come with us without having the hassle of
flying a quarter of the way around the world, having to stand in a
thousand or so lines, and wonder just exactly what that German road
sign means in English.
That's the least we can do for you.
8-)
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