The Alsace Chronicles

Wow, I'm just a blogging maniac. It's just about the only thing I can trust myself to do while I'm on 500 mg of loratab and 20 mg of cyclobenzaprine.

How you doin?

Ok, so this really goes under the Germany Chronicles, but I'm not willing to figure out which chapter I am on that, so bah.

To sum up and transport you...it's December 2004, Jonathan and I are in Germany visiting Sherry and Christian. Are you with me?

First off, we all loaded up into Christian's Audi with broken headlight (remember this, because it will be relevant later on) and took the auto-BAHN through the Black Forest, and Baden Baden where people sit nekkid in hot springs (or something to that effect) and even made a pit stop at the barb wired remains of the Maginot Line before we found our way into the beautiful Alsace area. I'm a WWII buff, so the Maginot Line was a biggie for me to even be near, much less gawk at up close and personal.

So we were finally in France. It wasn't an overwhelming difference. Real shutters, brick shingles, wide-eyed and amazed Jinny. Sherry explained that the roses on the "Welcome to *insert French town name*" signs represented how aesthetically pleasing the town was by some French group that has the authority to judge that kind of thing. Some were 2 rose towns, while others were 3 or 4. Since I was in France, therefore impressed by their real wooden functional shutters and non-asphalt shingles, they were all 4 rose towns to me. Then came the almost climatic part -- the vineyards. We drove past an insane amount of vineyards, weaving their way up and down the foggy hills. I was in a Monet watercolor...bliss!

So we arrived, and I'm chagrined to report that I cannot remember which town we actually setup basecamp, so let's just leave it at we were in the Alsace.

SO I started this post on June 3rd and now it's the 14th...let's publish this pup and I'll continue later.

Roll coming attractions!

Stay tuned...there's a rude Frenchman and an odd police officer on the next installment of THE ALSACE CHRONICLES!