1. my body left switzerland, but my cell phone did not. i realized this on the train. hopefully someone´s gonna airmail it back to Los Angeles sometime. hopefully. curses!
2. went on a 40 mile bike ride around the füssen countryside. g o r g e o u s.
3. had jaegerschnitzel at least 4 days in a row. and spätzle. g o r g e o u s.
4. stayed in a hostel one night with 50+ 13-yr-old french kids. woah.
5. went to Neuschwanstein (the real Cinderella castle) and hiked around it some as well. also gorgeous. and people here really wear lederhosen, by the way.
6. visited the top of deutschland´s highest mountain, the Zugspitz. these alps here...man, i tell you. they are nice. wish i had a snowboard with me...
7. held an extended conversation early in the evening with one very drunk german who really liked america. oh, the beer here...
8. held a very not-extended conversation with a pair of older russian men, in russian. turns out my brain doesn´t smoothly handle the switch-between-multiple-languages-that-you´re-not-good-at function. but it was fun to remember some po-russkie anyways.
9. went to innsbruck in the österreich (aka austria) because we couldn´t manage to book a room in munich for friday or saturday. this resulted in much much much extended hiking ´round the alps in that area. this also resulted in hearing some yodeling at the night´s end. yes! check! trip can feel complete now!
10. we´re in münchen today, for the last 48 hours of this deutschland excursion. beer-drinking and dachau-seeing have taken most the day. dachau: sobering. beer-drinking: also sobering, as alcohol-frei is always the beer o´choice. well, mineral water for me, because i don´t like the beer that much anyways.
and so to the US i return tomorrow. pictures to be posted. watch for me to parachute down in a blaze of glory over the pacific ocean at sunset! or, see me at LAX at midnight, weary and smelly and dragging the corpse of my backpack across the arrivals concourse, wishing i could spend one more night in a comfy bed. ah, well.
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