Munich 2012
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
The family continued our tour of Munich on Monday, October 1, 2012, by stumbling out of the Oktoberfest, heading back to the train station, and catching a ride to the Marienplatz stop. We began our trek through the city center by stopping first to gawk at the Neues Rathaus, better known as the big glockenspiel. Unfortunately, the giant clock only does its jig during the fall at 11am and noon, so we had missed it by about two hours. I had seen the little dance when I had been in Munich in 2008, and it’s nothing to get excited about. So we just took our pictures there and moved on. Read the rest of this entry »
I was pumped for a busy week/weekend. It would have been even busier had the Morrissey concert scheduled for Wednesday, October 24, 2012. But it was, and although I was disappointed, I had a bit of a reprieve from the totally insane amount of activity that would be coming up. Then I saw – and met – the 
Tuesday, July 10, 2012, would mark the seventh day of the road trip through New England that Bob and I had been undertaking, effectively bringing the first week of the trip to close. After this day, we’d still have another full week ahead. But as of this day, we were still in the southern half of the New England states, specifically in Waterbury, Connecticut at the American Motor Lodge. This location put us just a quick drive from our first stop of the day (besides Bob’s quick run-in to one of the many Dunkin’ Donuts in the region).