Loud thunderstorms kept us up well into the night last night and rain was still falling on the fly when we woke up this morning. We loaded everything into the tent with a soft rain still falling, meaning that everything stayed pretty wet and muddy. Then, we headed out toward Lake Bodensee to see what […]
Bree: Early on, when we began planning this trip, we had a running list of places we thought we might like to visit. It was a scramble of all kinds of places we had dreamed of since we were children, heard about from loved ones, seen in books or on the web. Ben had seen […]
After dinner last night we spent the evening sitting on the well manicured grass that made up the beach of the small, pretty lake at our campground. A stiff and consistent wind blew across the lake, which I have learned is nature’s way of saying “get ready, the rain is coming”. Looking out on the […]
Although we both got a better night’s sleep than Monday night, neither of us were feeling 100% when we got up. These summertime colds really did a number on us. Gratefully, we were up quite early, so we packed up camp and were out the door by 7:30. Our first miles were mostly flat with […]
Bree:Although both of us had been nursing a mild sore throat yesterday, we were hoping we’d wake up feeling good and ready for departure. Instead, we spent most of the night tossing and turning and sniffling until finally we took some Benadryl which knocked us out for the night and well beyond the normal hour […]
As predicted by the receptionist at our campsite’s iPhone, we did indeed wake up to perfectly blue skies – not a single cloud. Actually, let me clarify by saying that I woke up to clear skies. Bree woke up around 6:30, as she always does, to thick can’t see the 5 campers down kind of […]
The damp weather broke just long enough last night for me to make a really creative dinner involving Ramen and cabbage and we sat outside on our stools in a light misty rain slurping our deliciously hot soup and making quite a mess. With as many noodles falling on the ground as were making it […]