H-16 C RAIN Salzburg L H 64 L 53 H H 62 L 50 M H 67 L 55 RAIN
L- C H 97 L 76
Bear update: The Bear says I Could’t Find A Big Enough Sword This Morning Party. TR says, “Instead I found a crumbling wall.” Moose say, “It must have taken one look at you, Bear!” Lou says we will have a Take A Walk Around The Lake To Find The Sword Party. We will serve Foods That You Eat With The Sword.
We woke up to clouds. Will it last? It lasted, and the temperature in Salzburg climbed to 16C. It started to rain while we ate dinner. It kept on coming down.
Tucson 101/78
We woke up at 7:30AM. We got dressed and went downstairs to the restaurant for CP breakfast. We packed up and checked out. Gary got 1 euro back. We checked out of room 126 at 10:07AM. Sitting at the red light we saw the National Socialist Burger King. We followed 4 to get to A-9. Our first pit stop was at Googlesbuch. It was a basic one where you didn’t have to pay. The second rest area was at Gabelsee. It caused big problems. I got locked inside the stall temporarily.The door times the toilet to flush. When that sequence gets disturbed, the door doesn’t open right. I knocked on the door. Finally it opened. Gary and Kenny weren’t there to help. I raised a ruckus. I’m not doing that anymore. We passed Ingolstadt Sud and then crossed the Danube River. This was where Kenny wanted to go to last night. We turned over 1000 km. since Sunday. Our third pit stop was at a full-service area Serways, which we’ve been seeing all week long We went to Burger King. We had a lot of trouble ordering 3 Kings and 3 Cokes. The only thing that works is flashing my piece of paper at them that says Quittung for receipt. I always get one when I show it. We got back on the highway and ran into a giant stall on the other side of the highway as we got closer to Munich. It went on for I don’t know how many miles. We’re almost to 99, the ring road around Munich. You can tell you’re near a major city. We stopped at a ring road rest area, Tank & Rast Betriebs Autobahn Raststattenbetriebe near Parsdorf. I bought postcards, which I’m short on lately. They weren’t tourist postcards, they were cards of dogs and cats. Then we stopped again for ice cream — Magnum Classic Bars — at Autobahn-Raststatte Samerberg Sud. We passed Herm Kimsee and caught a faraway glance at the island in the middle of the lake. We can pick out the Alps lining the route into Salzburg. We even managed to pick up a map of the place at the last rest area. Then we stopped to go to the bathroom for 1 euro. The attendant said, “Gruss got.” We bought a token for the car for Austria and crossed into Austria. There was a short tunnel to get into Salzburg. Then Gary got lost again. He might have been here before long ago, but he doesn’t remember how to get anywhere. It’s 4:30PM, and we’re lost in Salzburg. He turned down the wrong street and we’re stuck in a public parking lot calling the Hotel Imlauer. We finally checked into room E06 on the ground floor for the first time since Potsdam! We did a little unloading and went to dinner at the Stieglbraus Restaurant which is through the lobby. You don’t even have to go outside. We ordered ravioli and a bottle of still water. Then we walked to the Marionetten Theater for a 7:30PM performance of The Sound of Music. We took a shortcut through the Mirabelle Gardens. We almost didn’t get in because we forgot our voucher. But I talked them into it. We left during the intermission. We walked back in the rain with our umbrellas and stopped at the hotel restaurant for hot tea. We unloaded more of the car trunk. We turned on the computer and charged things.
I used to think that parking lots in Tucson were bad. We sometimes have trouble parking our 2007 Nissan Quest minivan next to all the RV’s, pickup trucks, and SUV’s. California parking lots are a little tighter. But Germany is a nightmare unimagined by Americans who have never traveled here. We rented a Ford Mondeo, a full-size wagon for Europe but a definitely a mid-size wagon by American standards. It’s almost impossible to park it anywhere. Parking wastes time in rest areas on the autobahns and in hotel parking lots. Passengers have to climb out and guide my husband on how to back up and pull in the way we used to did with the RV in tight circumstances in Canada and the U.S. How this nightmare got started we can’t guess except that so many buildings are old and didn’t originally provide for parking. You’d think they would have remedied it by now. Today we saw a German couple boxed in on the autobahn. They couldn’t leave until we pulled out.
I went through the email as we drove. I was reminded that I needed to order labels from Artistic labels. Kenny’s at the Bronze level at Casual Male XL. He needs $300.00 more dollars to reach the silver level.
Part of email from Gertrude: I have made reservations for five at the “Alt Salzburg”. I give you the phone number of the restaurant: (0662)84-14-76.
Hope all is going well with you. Looking forward to lunch in Salzburg, too.
Still no contract . . .
What next?
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
Still no contract . . .
What next?
Friday, July 20, ’12
1)Hilton Hotel Nuremberg refund +1 euro
2)Burger King lunch 20.97 euros
bathrooms 2.10 euros
3)Tank & Rast Betriebs Autobahn Raststattenbetriebe postcards 17.44 euros
bathrooms 2.10 euros
4)Autobahn-Raststatte Magnum bars and map 14.42
bathrooms 2.10 euros
5)token for Austria 8 euros
bathrooms 1 euro
6)Restaurant Stieglbrau dinner cash 58 euros
7)Restaurant Stieglbrau hot tea cash 7.80 euros
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TOT: $133.93 euros = $162.92 dollars
Best Western Imlauer Fidelity Checking room E06 $742.59 DOLLARS
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TOT: $905.51