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European Vacation, Part II

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Ok, here is the finale. These are the last photos from our travels.

Zugspite
Ok, we couldn’t resist. We had to go to the highest mountain in Germany. You just take a cable car up, so it’s easy. Here we are at the top.

Zugspite2
The view was pretty awesome!

Monestery
This is an amazing church and monestery we visited, still in Germany.

Ludwig's castle I
This is Schloss Linderhof, which King Ludwig built as his ‘summer home’.

Ludwig II
Ludwig’s boyhood home, not a bad place to grow up. They declared his brother insane before he reached adulthood so he could never be king but I guess Ludwig was the saner of the two. Was that castle full of lead paint or what?

Neuschwanstein
This is the castle of castles, Neuschwanstein. This was also built by Ludwig and was still under construction at the time of his death.

Austria ruins
Ok, now we are have crossed the border into Austria. There are plenty of amazing ruins here as well.

Austria mountains
So at one point we got lost in Austria and I was driving down dirt tracks through the middle of cow pastures. But that was OK, look at the views!

Border clock
Monument at the border between Austria and Italy.

Mountain road
See the road here? Definitely a bit of a stressful drive, and you can’t see around the switchback until you start around the corner. It was worth it though!

Mountains
The view from the top!

European vacation

Friday, November 17th, 2006

So, we had one more stop before coming back to the States. Well, a long stop in which we traveled around Europe. We flew to Frankfurt and rented a car (They gave me a super cool VW Golf with the TDI) and took off to explore. It’s a good thing I liked the car since Dave’s driving license expired while we were in Africa so I had to do all the driving. It was a little tough at times, I had a little anger management problem after being honked at a few times. I don’t mind being honked at if I do something dumb, but I could not figure out why these Germans honk!

car and I

autobahn

This is Rothenburg, a cool historical Roman town along the ‘Romantic Highway’ in southern Germany.

rothenburg

torture

countryside

bedroom

concentration camp
This is a concentration camp at Daschau just outside of Munich. It was pretty grim. This was not a place where many people were sent to the gas chambers but people were held here along the way and many died of starvation and mistreatment.

glockenspiel

big beer

Zanzibar and Pemba

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
How can you top off a trip a like this? With diving in Zanzibar and Pemba, of course. After safari we flew to Zanzibar and got a room in the middle of the maze they call Stone Town. The buildings ... [Continue reading this entry]

Safari

Sunday, November 12th, 2006
We didn't know what to expect from our safari, we'd been so busy preparing for the climb up Kili we just booked a safari and didn't do a whole lot of research. Luckily, it worked out fantastic. Since Melanie recommended ... [Continue reading this entry]

Kilimanjaro, Finally

Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Ok folks it's finally time for a post on Kilimanjaro. Let's just ignore that fact that I am already home, I still want the people who I won't see for a while to see some photos. As far as the ... [Continue reading this entry]