Beginnings

We are off again, on a longish (18, 19 or 20 days, depending on how you count) trip to Germany. It will be my (Gerry's) 2nd trip to Germany this year; the trip this Spring with my son Scott was so much fun that I talked June into going this Fall.

Briefly, we leave on Friday, September 19, 2008, and will return on Wednesday, October 8, 2008. While in Germany we will spend time in the greater Hamburg area, a few days around Nuernberg (my birth city), and then lots of time in the Bavarian Alps, both in the Berchtesgaden area, and the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area. Then, back to the Frankfurt area, for a day with my step-brother Karlheinz and his daughter Sylvia. Aside from the usual sightseeing, I've managed to reserve opera tickets both for the Hamburgische Staatsoper (Verdi's Simon Boccanegra) and the Salzburgisches Landestheater (Kalman's Graefin Maritza).

The last time I tried to keep a whole lot of people in touch with our travels was two years ago, from our Panama Canal cruise on "Zuiderdam." Then, I did it (or tried) by e-mail, which turned out to be a major amount of work, particularly as we got further south, and the ship internet connection was increasingly unable to connect to my mail servers.

[I have inserted these e-mails into this blog, back-dated to their original date and time (roughly); to see these click on the "triangle" next to 2006 at the left (where you see the blog "tree") to expand the postings in that year.]

This time, I am going to try using a blog; theoretically, all I will have to do is write what I want, once, no e-mail, no fuss. Of course, whether or not you see it will be up to you; you will have to connect to this blog and see if anything new has appeared. (There is also a subscription possiblility; click on the "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" link at the very bottom of this page, or here, and follow the instructions.)

Two years ago I also tried to post pictures on our fototime web album, which turned out to be a major mistake (for technical reasons too long to explain here), but meant I had a major clean-up job to do on both my mobile computer, and my desk-top, after returning. I won't be doing that again, although I might post the odd picture in this blog, just for illustration. However, I will be posting an album on return.

Don't let that discourage you from viewing our other pictures, at http://longworth_mueller.fototime.com/ .
And note, that "blank" space between longworth and mueller has an "underline" under it.

And check this blog regularly