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Bear update: The Bear says We Are Beginning Our Triumphal March Back To Tarthens Party. TR says, “Onward with my sword.” Moose say, “Nobody cares about your teeny tiny sword, Bear!” Lou says we will have a Teeny Tiny Sword Party. We will serve Teeny Tiny Foods.
We woke up to sun. Will it last? It lasted, and the temperature in Hamburrg climbed to 81.
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We woke up at 7:30AM. We got dressed and went downstairs to the restaurant at the Hotel Lenz for breakfast. For once there was hardly anyone else there. We loaded up the car and checked out of rooms 106 and 104 at 10:19. We got on B27 going north to A7. Now we’re heading north to Kassel, Hannover, and Hamburg. We frequently get mileages for all three. Our first pit stop was at the Serways at Grossenmoor. We also got gas for probably the last time on the trip at Shell. Our second pit stop was at Hasselberg. We’d thought to make it the lunch stop but the cafeteria-style food didn’t look appealing and nobody wanted to ate more German spaghetti for lunch the way we did yesterday. We ended up stopping at a McDonalds at an autohof called Guxhagen to eat lunch. We called the kennel. Next we drove through Kassel. We’re always going up and down hills. We left Hessen. Neidersachen was the next place we entered, which I’ve never heard of before. Now the sign says Harz. Kenny saw the symbol of a witch. The fourth pit stop was at a Harz Serways. We had ice cream and bought a German magazine on Luneberger Heide, which Gary claims we’re going through later on today on our car tour of Germany. Then we stopped at a McDonalds in the Luneberger Heath to get coffee and bottled water. The traffic picked up as we got closer to Hamburg. We see trucks driving on the shoulder of the road, which seems bizarre. Some interstate system! We got off the road at the Autohof Soltauer Heide and ate outside at the Burger King. We couldn’t find a map of Hamburg next door at the gas station shop. So we got back in the car and headed 69 km back to Hamburg, seeing the last signs for the Luneberger Heath to the right. We then stopped at the Seevetal rest area to buy a map of Hamburg and more water. 7 and 1 divide. We get on 1. We enter the free city of Hamburg. We stopped at the Stillhorn Autohof to get gas. Then we headed for the center of the city. The biggest arrival nightmare of the trip awaited just when we thought we were making good time. We couldn’t find Adenauer Allee. We called the hotel. They couldn’t give us directions. Then we found the road and couldn’t turn around. We couldn’t find parking. We pulled the Bearusmobile up in front of the door to the Best Western and unloaded. Gary squeezed his car into a space in front of the hotel but couldn’t get out of the car, Kenny rescued him from the car. We all arrived in rooms 102 and 105 just in time to pack the suitcases and put Cunard labels on them.
Nord and sud. I see them all the time on the road. They mean north and south.
Kennel Communications:
dear linda and gary the directions are below and the phone numbers for to get in touch with me are as followed kennel;412-655-9441 personal 412-655-9532 cell 412-277-0215 & 412-915-9533 an you have our e-mail address. hopefully our computer will be working shortly please continue to use that
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Germany Isn’t A Land of Midgets, but . . . Not only are the drinks smaller in Europe, so are the chairs. Again I noticed this contrast to America as soon as we boarded the QM2. We thought that was just because the ship had limited space. We were amazed that this trend in armchairs continued on shore as soon as we got to Germany. Some of them, especially in restaurants remind me of schoolroom-sized chairs from grade school. We took to sitting on benches and sofas instead whenever possible. But it gets really ridiculous when we seek out the McDonalds Restaurant in Guxhagen right before you get to Kassel, Germany as a place to eat lunch on our last full day in Germany when my son — over six feet tall — complains that he’s knocking everything over on the table because he doesn’t have enough room to sit. I haven’t noticed that everybody in Germany is a munchkin. How can they stand to be so squeezed?
Still no contract . . .
What next?
Details to Tend to:
1)call 800 Best Western to complain about Hotel Imlauer
2)call FEDEX about First Overnight
3)tell Cunard didn’t use transfer paid for
4)call Fidelity about transfer to Kenny’s account
5)call Fidelity to complain about Imlauer
6)call Best Western Rewards
Lusitania Plot Corrections:
1)Dora should be collecting her nickels for the trolley rides
2)When they drive to BMC they should be driving the Lincoln Highway, not Route 30. They should see the Amish in buggies driving down the road. Incorporate rural scenes with red barns and signs that say, “Drink milk”. Describe the Allegheny Mountains as they climb over them with the terrorist tailing them.
3)Fog when Dora peers out porthole wondering if can contact parents. Warm air meeting cold North Atlantic seawater and can’t even make out the waves out her porthole. The terrorist has put a sign over most of her porthole so no one can see in and she can barely find a crack for peering out.
4)When Dora’s locked inside her cabin she feels that she’s going crazy being so alone and so thwarted. It’s emphasized and underlined by the whistling wind outside her cabin door.
She can’t get any sleep listening to the howling wind, tossing and turning, and thinking about the saboteur. It sounds like a nightmare.
5)At another point listens for anyone on the deck. Silent except for vibrations of ship.
6)When Edward first meets Dora she wraps comforter around herself, not sheet. Europeans don’t use top sheets. She also notices that double beds are like two singles pushed together.
7)Guests at the Verandah Cafe must make sure to wear shawls and outer wraps. And don’t wear hats! Make sure to leave those in the cabin because of the wind. Dora sees folks with blankets on their legs and wrapped around themselves enjoying hot tea, coffee, and steaming chocolate. Don’t make it look like a Southern California cruise! You’ve got to emphasize the fog, the rain, the winds, and the whitecaps out at sea. Only in the fair weather do guests sit out on the deck in deck chairs with blankets thrown over their legs.
8)no washcloths
Captive At The Berghof corrections:
1)Change description of Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street
2)Might mention Admiralty officer invited to Carinhall on the occasion of the Naval Treaty. Or mention there were other meetings that had already occurred. Goering could be talking to the navy officer in the background. Better yet say it already occurred and Hitler is using the event as an excuse to draw Edward in.
3)Helga mentions a French bed, no washcloths
4)Visit to Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg:
Dora swept into the Zeppelin Field and stadium by the National Socialist officials and Hitler’s entourage with Helga following i1n the rear. Photos flashing everywhere and movie cameras going as she is literally shoved along by hands reaching out for her as hears deafening. “Heil, Hitler!” Tries to hold onto sanity. Aware only as day turns to night of daughter in front of her carried by Linge right behind the Fuhrer himself. Also buoyed up by Edward’s presence behind her with his hand in the small of her back forming a joint consciousness against the incursions of the mob in her ear and trying to tug at her mind.
Forced up stone stairs amidst multitude of officials and up to the platform built to look like the Pergamon altar in museum in Berlin. Thomasina seems farther away. Tries to reach for her and hold her, take her away from Hitler, but she’s always turned down and ignored.
When turn on stadium lights for “cathedral of light effect” daughter seems to dissolve into a beam of light with Hitler. Outlined in light like Gods in a box of light separated from all ordinary mortals. Only Edward is left. She turns to him and complains. But he’s not there! Stunned, confused, panicky, alone. Thinks, What am I doing here? Nowhere to flee.
5)Obersaltzberg:
I saw a little girl’s traditional Bavarian costume. I looked for one with a green skirt. It’s what Hitler should give Thomasina when she visits the Berghof. Dora and Edward should be scandalized that she’s not dressing like an English/American miss. Mr. Benley should say something unprintable. Then Hitler should send her a snow glob for Christmas, and in the snow globe is a miniature of the Berghof! He should also send her a musical Christmas tree made out of wooden pieces that sings German songs.
6)When Dora and Edward visit the Berghof Hitler should serve meatloaf, an egg sunny side up on top of it, German potato salad, a tomato and parsley, and mustard for lunch. For dessert Hitler serves apple strudel with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream. The little girl’s enchanted.
Redo all the German food scenes in the novel based on the menus you ate in Bavaria and Germany. Will seem more authentic. Even breakfast at the Berghof should be transformed when Edward and Dora are being held captive for a Lawrence map in 1938 with their daughter being held by Linge and Hitler. They could be silent as they select scrambled eggs, bacon or sausage, cold cheeses or meats under glass with a metal tong and move on to a selection of pastries and fried tomatoes with cheese and various fruits and yogurt. They could sit there with their individual pots of English breakfast tea with a pot of cream and a sugar bowl sitting on the table. They could be stirring the tea in the small chin teacups with a special spoon for tea while the servers ask them if they want coffee.
Escape From The Berghof:
Edward’s chase down the mountain at night should be done on a motorcycle, not in a car. I saw lots of motorcycles climbing the hill to the Obersalzberg. They work better on those wicked switchbacks. He could crash on that, too, and it could go up in flames. It’s particularly appropriate considering Lawrence and his bike.
Movies 2012
1)Flintstones Season 3 1/29/12
2)The Sound of Music 3/6/12
3)A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum 5/6/12
Books Read 2012:
1)Five Days in London: May 1940 by John Lukacs 1/28/12
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Unity FAX Kenny $4.99
Tuesday, July 24, ’12
1)Hotel Restaurant Lenz rooms 106 and 104 176.85 euros
including postcards, breakfast and restaurant
2)Bab Shell Station Grossenmoor gas 43.38 euros
3)McDonalds Guxhagen lunch 20.07 euros
4)WC 2.10 euros
5)WC 2.10 euros
6)Bat Harz Ost ice cream 1.99 euros
7)Bat Harz Ost ice cream 1.99
8)Bat Harz Ost ice cream 1.99
Bat Harz Ost Luneberger Heide book 8.00 euros
6)WC $.60 euros
7)McDonalds McCafe bottled water and coffee 6.27 euros
8)WC $.40 euros
9)Burger King dinner 19.47 euros
WC .60 euros
Seevetal rest area Hamburg map 8.99 euros
Seevetal rest area water 6.72 euros
14)WC 1.40 euros
15)Stillhorn gas 34.47 euros
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TOT: 339.39 euros = $410.29