Adventuriety
We love Oberammergau. It is a beautiful little village near fabulous hiking trails. The weather is nice, especially for us rain-starved Californians. It usually rains here at least a few times a week, complete with lightning and thunder, another treat since we don’t get much of nature’s lightshow in our hometown. We love all of the weather and the sunshine too. When it’s not raining...
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Inspirietry
The kids and I were walking back to our apartment after a fun evening at the swimming pool. The forecast had predicted a hot day, but by the time we got to the pool a little after 5 o’clock, clouds were building over the mountains and the air had turned cool. Scott and the kids jumped off of the diving boards and swam for a...
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Adventuriety
With visions of Kind Ludwig still dancing in our heads, we decided to clear them by hiking to a meadow that I had spotted from the deck of the closed restaurant on Laber Mountain a few days earlier (Four Lessons in a Three Hour Tour). My husband got out his map and his map reading skills and we headed out to the Hoher Fricken. Hoher...
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Adventuriety
I am in love with Germany. The people are interesting and Bavaria at least, is breathtakingly beautiful. I have come to one conclusion that the people living in Bavaria (and maybe it’s true of all Germans) are crazy tough for one reason in my mind (and there are probably more reasons, a lot of fire wood around here), the Bier trinken und Wandern. I love...
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Adventuriety
I’ve decided that while in Bavaria, my husband’s definition of hiking does not apply. He says you need to be at least a mile from the parking lot and doing a little bushwhacking in order to really be hiking. It seems that people here are hikers, there are hikers everywhere with hiking sticks, clothes and gear. His definition of hiking here should be modified to,...
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Adventuriety
It was a good day today. We hiked and ate and played cards and if you actually want to get to the card playing part, you’ll have to read all three of the Pürschling Blogs, it was a long day. We got an early start for the first time on our trip. It’s been afternoon hiking as we adjust to the new time zone, but...
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Adventuriety
I have some good news to report today, some wrongs were righted and that is always a good thing. I think I may have mentioned that my husband is cooking this year. He’s a great cook when he wants to be because he looks up recipes and he follows them. This is only mildly interesting to me because he makes some really yummy comfort food...
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Adventuriety
You know that saying about the journey and not the destination? And the joy of unexpected surprises along the path? Our adventure today reminded me of those nuggets of knowledge as well as highlighted some previously learned lessons. The largest jewels in today’s crown of learning are, “be true to thine own travel style” and “the best experience is not always the most thorough experience.” ...
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Adventuriety
One of the things that I love about traveling is that it turns your brain on. Anyone who has ever traveled anywhere and I am including any destination other than sitting in your own living room knows that travel can be exhausting because of all kinds of reasons but most of all it is the “needing to figure out things” that is the exhausting part....
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Adventuriety
Do not impede riders in front of you by going too slowly. That is what RULE NUMBER 5 of the Alpine Coaster stated at the top of Kolbensattel near Oberammergau, Germany, as we waited to board our personal alpine coasters. My stomach had started turning over on the way up riding the chairlift. Gazing out at the beautiful views of mountains and valleys, green and...
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