Sorry about the lack of entries, but I haven't found it easy to sit at a keyboard and write. I am making notes and taking some pictures, and my upcoming schedule looks like this:
Week of
August 13 Paris sightseeing
August 20 Paris-Brest-Paris
August 27 Lage (Hannover/Bielefeld area) visiting relatives
September 3 Hamburg-Goethe Institut German studies
September 10 Hamburg continued
September 17 not sure
September 24 Stuttgart UCI World Road Championships
October 1 Packing and returning home
Best wishes to everyone who has visited this site, there is much more I will tell you.
Michael
PS A highlight of my trip was visiting my cousin Volker in Freiburg--this picture was taken from the Schlossberg in Freiburg--the fellow who more closely resembles the men in my family is on the left--that's Volker. Volker works at the airport which can be seen in the background.
Volker's mom took us on a driving tour on the Swabian Alb later in the day, and the kloister church we visited in St. Trudpert and the view from the Schauinsland were spectacular.
