Because We Can

Playing a little catchup with my posts. This written on the 7th of Nov while we are in Johannesburg, South Africa waiting for our O.A.T. tour to start. The posts will be grouped by city, Nuremburg, Germany, Bingen, Germany and Oslo, Norway. Having too much fun traveling to take time to write. These posts will be mostly photos. The Documentation Zentrum was today’s destination. It is housed in the Congress Center the National Socialists (Nazi’s) built in Nuremburg. It documents the rise of the Nazi party, the cult of Hitler and the price humanity paid for it. We spent over five hours there, the place has that much impact. A leader who made everything about him, all of what he said was always true, A leader who broke treaties as it suited him, a leader that focused on a group to blame all the troubles on them. The emotional impact of being here is overwhelming. It was never completed once the war began. It was going to have a roof. What it was going to look like. Hitler walking up the st...

Not many people out early on Sunday morning as this photo of us, or I should say, Linda on the escalator from the U-Bahn station up to the Train station shows. Hint: the only grocery stores open on Sunday are in the bigger city train stations. Be prepared for aisles jammed like you never experienced. Maybe the reason no one was on the escalator was because they were all in the grocery store? One of those things you need to experience to believe. The trams were few and far between, plus they had fewer cars. Our morning destination, The Palace of Justice where in courtroom 600 between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946 the Nazi war criminals and organizations were tried form crimes committed during WW II. We had been here during our previous trip and it was on our must visit list again. For anyone visiting, it is place that takes hours to see. It is not something to visit with a tour group. There is no way during that rushed visit the true horror and resulting comprehension and the begi...

One of the lessons we have learned over the years is that by traveling for extended periods of time, we do not have to cram every day with going or doing. Today was to be one of those not doing much days. On the other hand, Ms. Swipe the Soap had been busy at the hotels we stayed at during the Nat Geo Expedition. (I just can’t get used to typing “expedition” instead of “tour”.) Soap, shampoo and conditioner. No wonder my luggage is so heavy. Next I’ll be discovering she was picking up rocks everywhere we traveled, and that has also found its way into my luggage. Pack Man Bob. On the way to the Bakeri  (bakery) just up the street. Nothing wrong with going to see the Grand Canyon, just as there is nothing wrong with traveling overseas. Fresh baked this morning and a minute from the bakery. After breakfast it was off to the grocery store, a nine minute walk. Th map showed us crossing a bridge, this was the view we saw. Near the grocery store we see this banner, a fish festival is taki...