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Partner Chad with half of my birthday present (25#

Partner Chad with half of my birthday present (25# dumbbell set! 😃) on a warm Sunday felt good. Okay, long and tiring, but good-adjacent. CrossFit-good, if you will. 😂

Our shipped goods arrived from Germany on Friday morning, so the past couple of days have been long. Lots of unpacking, evaluating, organizing, and cleaning. So close to having ourselves really moved in makes it hard to slow down. I just move from task to task without thinking of the rest or variety or relaxing that I need.

Thanks for the CrossFit-good idea, @lazyaznlifts! And thanks for inviting us to work with ya 20-feet apart, @chipsahoiyee. Shout-out to my WOD and life partner for knocking it out with me. It's been a challenging few weeks, but we're doing the dang thing. 😘

Took a walk today. Sold a bunch of things I can le

Took a walk today. Sold a bunch of things I can let go of. Tried to remember that the chaos of this move will settle down. Noticed the clouds. Not bad. Not bad. 😌

"Es gibt nur ein Deutschland" "There is only one

"Es gibt nur ein Deutschland"
"There is only one Germany"

Happy German Reunification Day! If you ever want to learn some interesting history, read about the division and reunification of Germany. Watch the videos of Germans protesting for months before and then streaming over the checkpoints on November 9th, 1989. Then look into reunification and all the decisions that had to be made to knit the country back together. It's no small thing being celebrated, and in many ways, it's an ongoing project. 🍻 So "Prost" to 30 years and many more to come! #latergram

Back in Maryland, USA. 🦀 We had smooth flights

Back in Maryland, USA. 🦀 We had smooth flights with very little trouble socially distancing, and all our luggage made it with us. 😅 Slowly we'll reconstitute our lives in our new/old stomping grounds. Already old rhythms have asserted themselves in sales transactions and polite conversations. It's nice to be an easy customer again. 😊 But recent habits show up out of place. Saying "Entschuldigung" to get someone to move out of the way is not super helpful around here. 😂 One thing's for certain: it's going to be interesting.

The sun is setting on our time in Berlin. We move

The sun is setting on our time in Berlin. We move soon, but it's hard to imagine leaving. This city is special. There are so many people we will miss. It's so easy and rewarding to explore and learn here.

We don't want to go, but we're learning the power of farewells to force us out of complacency. We've said things we might otherwise keep to ourselves. We've heard things that we will treasure for years to come. We've noticed details we've ignored before. We've savored flavors more carefully. We've just have to do it through puffy eyes and a tightness in our chests as the gratitude threatens to burst our ribcages. 😩

The concrete wall comes down and a wall of 100€

The concrete wall comes down and a wall of 100€ bills is erected in its place. This mural pulls no punches. 😳

Germany Road Trip 2020: Baden-Württemberg Day 3,

Germany Road Trip 2020: Baden-Württemberg Day 3, Saarland Day 1, Stop in Bayern on the way back to Berlin
Last road trip latergram because this is getting ridiculous! We spent a day and a night in Baden-Baden. I'm not posting any photos because we really needed a lazy day, and we stayed in a wonderful apartment. Like, literally, we stayed in and just relaxed. Untanned, but rested and ready, we headed to one of the smallest of Germany's states, Saarland. We stopped in Homburg's Schlossberghöhlen (Caves, 1-2). Site of earlier fortifications and later used for shelter during WWII, the caves are incredible red and yellow sandstone. Moss grows near lights, so they give you a hard hat with a light and try to keep the interior lighting minimal. Tough to photograph but super fun to explore! Next we got to the city of Saarbrücken. We wandered the old town with a free mp3 audioguide I found about the landmarks like the castle (3), Ludwigskirche (4), and Rathaus St. Johann (City Hall, 5-6). We slept the night after a lovely dinner (in a town known for its food), and got up to head home with a single stop on the way: the Würzburg Residence. It's truly an incredible German Baroque building with art and architecture that is remarkable to behold and, sadly, forbidden to photograph. :-( Oh, well, at least the exterior and gardens were a photographic free-for-all (7-9). And that's that! That was our loop (10). Deutschland, du bist wunderschön!

Germany Road Trip 2020: Baden-Württemberg Day 2 T

Germany Road Trip 2020: Baden-Württemberg Day 2
The day dawned warm and sunny, and we had a typical local activity planned: the Hasenhorn Rodelbahn (1-3)! It's an alpine coaster -- basically a luge-style ride down a mountain. You take a chair lift up (this one with views of the town of Todtnau). At the top, they strap you in, feet first, to a car on the rails. The next couple of minutes are a blur. You careen in loops and bumps and straightaways into curves, down the 2.9km track to the bottom, sparingly applying the brake on your little car and telling yourself they don't want you to fall off and die, despite how it feels. 😆 Oh, and because our hotel had given us Hochschwarzwald Cards, it was free! We just walked up, scanned our cards, and rode down. Super easy and highly recommended. (You get the card from staying in participating hotels so look into that when planning!) After our adrenaline rush, we moved on to a more relaxed hike on the Hirtenpfad trail. The path takes you through forest and fields once traversed by 19th century shepherd boys herding their family flocks (4-7). The beauty of the summer scenery belies the boys' hard lives, but the signs along the trail gave you a picture. That's how we wrapped up our time in the Hochschwarzwald (High Black Forest). As we headed north, we stopped off at the Triberger Wasserfälle, taking in the falls and hiking a little nearby (8-9). We kept heading north, mountains and hills giving way to the lower Schwarzwald, and arriving that night in the famous spa town of Baden-Baden.

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