We caught a train in Munich and headed south to Füssen, a small German town in the Bavarian Alps about a mile from the Austrian border. Though we had already visited castles on the Rhine River, we were on our…
We got up early to take a walk before breakfast. The streets were quiet and only a few other people roamed the town. Yesterday's tourists had either gone back to the cities or were still asleep. The sunlight peeking over…
Catching the morning train out of Bacharach, we left the Rhine River behind. Its upstream path continued south to its birthplace in Switzerland; our path swung to the southeast. In Germany (other European countries, too, I suspect) you can get…
(After a holiday hiatus, this post continues from Walls and Wine.) Following a nice breakfast in Bacharach, we took a short train ride to St. Goar for a day trip. This is another quaint town with half-timbered buildings along the…
Back on the train, we continued our journey south. In Koblenz we transferred to another train, which eventually took us to Bacharach, a town of about 2,000. I wasn't quite sure where our hotel was located, so we stopped an…
Bonn, also on the Rhine River, is only about 15 miles south of Cologne. So, while in Cologne, we decided to make a day trip to Bonn. The train ride was very short and when we got off at the…
We packed our bags and took the tram to Amsterdam's Centraal Station. (Note that "Centraal" is not a typo. The Dutch are blessed with an abundance of vowels and often put pairs of them in places were you'd expect to…
Native Americans have inhabited the area around the Grand Canyon for about 12,000 years. The first Europeans, soldiers led by GarcÃa López de Cárdenas, did not see it until 1540. His disastrous failure to find the fabled Seven Cities of…
State Street starts on the west corner of the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin. It runs west for six blocks where it abuts the bottom of Bascom Hill, the tree-covered glacial drumlin that is sometimes considered "the heart" of the…