Trippin' with Susan Straley

  Whew!  We arrived safe back in Florida.   Our shuttle driver adjusted with our flights and picked us up for delivery to Steve's Florida home Monday night by 11:30 pm.  Thank you, Janice! The next morning I took pictures of some of the airline tickets we went through just on the trip home.  They aren't all here, we had thrown some away. We were glad to be able to ride with our bike group on Tuesday morning. Right away we were getting ready for our next rip.  This trip is with Steve's trailer, a land trip to the maritimes in Canada and then a loop over to Wisconsin. We have hand warmers that double as phone chargers.  We found on our trip to Europe that the hand warmers would turn on in our backpacks.  Once home, Steve glued an o-ring around the button to keep that from happening again. I had just moved myself out of my condo before we flew to Europe.  I had piles of stuff in each room.  Stuff to take to Europe, stuff to take on our...

We would be home right now.  But in reality... Originally I had booked us leaving Dresden by train to the Berlin Airport and then flying home via three flights, all in one day. Three flights is a lot, I know.  It was what was available as I recall, but I really don't remember.  Next time I make air travel plans I will engage Steve to look at our options with me. As our trip date approached, we got nervous about doing the train ride in the morning before our first flight.  It seemed risky. So we cut our stay in Dresden to one night and booked the train to a hotel right at the Berlin Airport. When we were in Dresden, Steve was regretting our decision for only one night in Dresden.  There was so much to see in that town. It was a town that was really, really bombed in a short period of time at the end of WWII.  I watched a video about it on Youtube.  Do not watch it if you are not emotionally strong right now.  War is hell.  The horrors of the ...