We spent the last few days with our friend JP. We met him in the dorms at the U, and he lives in Germany, so we figured why not go see him for a bit. It was a perfectly timed break from all the traveling (even though we spent 12 hours on trains to get to him). He lives in a villiage just off of Ramstein Airbase, which means he lives right in the middle of the biggest population of Americans outside of the states.
Because his dad is a civilian contractor with the air force, we got to go galavant about on base and enjoy all the wonderful Americaness there. Just for the record, hearing large amounts of english is a beautiful thing, as is going to chili's.
While we were there, his dad was nice enough to take a day off of work and take us to a few small towns along the Rhein and some awesome castles. I can't even tell you how beautiful that country is. I have never seen such thick forests outside of a rainforest. You can sit and watch the wind roll over the wheat fields for as far as you can see. It was really a beautiful place to be, and a nice chance to stop traveling and eating stuff on the run.
Here is the part to make our moms feel better:
We got warm beds provided by someone that we aren't afraid might rob us. We had breakfast made in the morning, hot dinner at night, and laundry washed and dried in the Bavarian sun. And yes, we had showers with as much hot water and pressure as we wanted. It was a beautiful thing.
After a night train from Munich, we are now in Rome. Our hostel is way out of down town Rome but it is right on the beach and huge. So far, all we've done is eat panninis and get an initial sunburn, and I'm totally okay with that.
Have fun at home everyone, and if you are reading this, you are being missed.
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