Liebe Clay,

You know I wouldn't interrupt my travelogue series for just any old thing. But this is an emergency.

( It really is. )

There is a dark side to the Teutonic cute kittie love I described in my last entry.

( You knew there had to be a dark side, didn't you? )

Yes, I'm back home, but still only half way through my travelogue. I'll continue on. To gear myself up again, I'll start with a little educational segment. You know I'm all about the teaching.

( What will Mistress Kat teach us today? )

I haven't updated my diary because we've been out of town. We spent yesterday in Rothenberg and today visiting some of my relatives. We got in tonight around midnight, and I have to be at the airport in the morning, so I'll update later. But don't worry, I will update. These stories are too good to keep to myself.

Yesterday started with a very different sort of Bavarian adventure--a trip to the Munich Walmart. An odd experience, really. Some things were so familiar. Others were not. Like these shoes for example.

( No, not Birkenstocks this time. )

Yesterday, Susie and I went shopping downtown. We started by taking the U-Bahn down to Sendlingertor, one of three remaining gates of the old city wall.

( Walking tour starts here. )

After my long overnight flight, I landed in Munich 8:00 Saturday morning. I'm not sure how many hours I'd gone without sleep by then, but I knew it was important to stay awake so I could get my body onto German time.

Susie helped me wake up by giving me a Super Dickmann. That had me buzzing on a sugar high long enough to take the U-Bahn downtown ( Read more... )

Some people theorize that it is significant what words certain languages have and don't have. For example, there is no word for "customer service" in German. And when you've had a ham-fisted beermaid ignore your repeated requests for the check, you tend to agree. I'm beginning to doubt this theory, though ( Read more... )

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Sorry I haven't posted for a while, but I was busy going to the Miss America Pageant. (Note how that just falls trippingly off my tongue now, as if it were the most normal thing in the world to say. It's opened up whole new linguistic opportunities for me. I can now say things like "The other night at the Miss America Pageant..." or "I saw a dress ( Read more... )