6 Months on the road

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Schlagobers and Schmetterlings
A cognate is a word in one language that sounds like and has a similar meaning to a word in a different language, and the two words usually share a…
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Saturday morning quickie
We are in Hungary headed toward Budapest. Rode past my new favorite store this morning. Power tools and ice cream, you just can’t go wrong. Chainsaw…
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George Washington slept here.
Many of the quaint, 1000 year old towns that we have been traveling thru survive on tourism and agriculture. Boat traffic on the river is mostly long…
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がんばって がんばって がんばって
Gambatte Gambatte Gambatte (for those with rusty Japanese)
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Interesting of you to ask.
In Flanders Fields John McCrae 1872-1918 In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The…
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Kilometers are shorter but there are so many more of them . . . .
The Danube is still many feet above flood stage. The crest of the flood has moved down stream but the water levels are not receding quickly. This…
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We should have brought the ark.
We are indeed cycling through the flooding in southern Germany. A few pictures below. We were helped out by a pair of biking locals around the washed…
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Some people walk in the rain, some just get wet.
I wanted to see how much rain we had gotten in the last 72 hours, Google lead me to the German Weather Service. According to them we have gotten…
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May 2024

How do you say ‘stinky pee’ in German ?
Forty four years ago, about this time, I was coming to the end of my exchange year in Germany. My German had gotten pretty good but there were still a…
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Nothing like liquid sunshine
It’s been a few days since our last update. For those in a hurry: Thursday : Rain RAIN LOTS OF RAIN Friday: Rain in the morning then a beautiful ride…
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A quick note on SubStack.
I am using an app called SubStack to send out updates on our travels. SubStack is free for me to use and has a lot of features that make sending out…
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This is the way.
The Eurovelo 6 bike path that we will be following most of the way to Istanbul is one of 17 long distance bike routes that have been laid out across the…
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