Road trips

Let me continue with this driving theme….

We are starting to do roadtrips in Germany. There is so much to see that is within a 2-hour drive, we ask ourselves “why not?” and “why have we waited so long?” After hearing the travel tales of friends who have lived here for 4 years, and spending some car time with my German travel books during our last roadtrip, we realized "so much to see, so little time”.

We really have the German Tourist Board to either thank or blame. They’ve done a masterful marketing job of “creating” interest for many of these areas in Germany. They’ve identified several sections of German roads, small villages, and key sights that are worthy of touring. Not only has the German Tourist Board encouraged day-trippers and weekend travelers such as Buddy and I to join in the fun, entire vacation tours and packages have been created around these themes. So much so, that in the summertime, tourist hordes descend on these areas like bees to honey. Catchy names have even been assigned to create a mental image of the things you can see and do: the Romantic Road, the Fairy Tale Road, the Castle Road, the Alpine Road, the Wine Road…you get the picture.

As summer draws to a close, families get back into the routine of school, and those “Americans" go home (I say that with a smile on my face), Buddy and I now turn our attention to seeing some of these sights ourselves. Pictures, blog postings, and postcards to follow.