Today we head to Nijvardal in the heart of WW2 Netherlands. Anna lives there and has promised to show us some of the sights involved in the the war. We leave here at 8:44 and get there around 10:15. I’m almost positive that we will be back in Leeuwarden by the time most of you read this.
Tomorrow we rent a car for local explorations of the the area where Dad lived.
Shit! Literally. When you flush the toilets on the trains here, it all STILL drops down on the tracks!
Well, it’s happened twice that people approach me and think of me as a local. Just this evening on the way to dinner, a couple approached and ask me a question in Dutch, which brought out a resounding “HUH?” from me. JK, I apologized and said “Sorry, American” and they apologized . . . I think.
We spent all day on the train! Damn, the European train system is efficient but not very familiar to this country boy. We’d step off of one train, take three steps to wait for another and we were off again.
Saturday we will explore the town of Leeuwarden and contact Anna to get together in her neck of the woods.
More under the vacation tab.
We’re here and Nina’s napping. We had lunch and took some pictures.
We leave today, but last night we all had dinner together. It was a great night out and we celebrated Andy’s birthday then too. It got us a free cake at Olive Garden. (Just kidding, the server tried to do that but I told him that I said it to bring Erin out of a foul mood.) We had so much fun last night the table next to us were dragged into the fun. and the server said that we were the best table that he’s served in a long time. Since I made his day, I felt that I didn’t have to tip him. JK.
Nina’s car is loaded and I’m just waiting for her to finish getting ready so we can leave. I just checked online and saw that all is according to schedule. I can’t wait for dinner on the plane, airline food is the best. We arrive in London around 8 a.m.
Can you do this?
I’m sitting on the deck gazing over the mesa that was missing yesterday, because of the fog, watching the full moon through wispy clouds. I am in awe at the absolute beauty of the area where I live. I wish a picture could do this justice, but experience tells me not to bother.
I just added a new drop down. It will contain profane and vulgar things that you may or may not wish to see. It’s on the far right of the links bar and properly labeled as VULGAR.
For the most part it will contain off-color and profane videos, memes, and jokes, items that I would rather not share in my general feed. Now you can choose to view or not view the postings that are vulgar. I will list any new postings in my feed when I add one, but it will be up to you to view it.
I woke this morning to the mesa across the highway from us having disappeared. Fog and/or low hanging clouds have obscured the mesa from our view.
It’s been a while since we’ve not seen the mesa every morning. I can’t even see the bar from my deck right now.
I’ll drive just fine in snow, heavy rain, darkness, but fog just scares the shit outta me. I HATE driving in fog, even with fog lights.
This week I saw half a dozen people taking pictures of our place. Tourists I’m guessing, but since I see this place daily I’m always amazed by the photographers taking pictures of our little slice of heaven.
I think that I should give the people my card and ask them to send me copies of the pictures and post them on my business website. I can see if it generates some interest in more people stopping here.
I know that a lot of the photogs are European by their accents, but there’s American tourists that do so too. It may be the hummers, of which we have many, that have them reaching for their cameras, or it could be this type of place is a dying breed of business. “Roadside America” type of place? Who knows?
While we have always been fairly popular with touring motorcyclists, this year has seen more foreigners on bikes stopping in and fueling up. It makes me wonder if we’ve made some sort of a tourist guide.