WOW!!!! I can’t believe it ....we’re leaving on a jet plane.......


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October 4th 2022
Published: October 10th 2022
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WOW!!!! I can’t believe it .... We’re leaving on a jet plane.......

This is our FIRST! Trip we have taken in three years. Yep... Three years....

Ok, we’ve gone to the beach and to Pine Mountain for Thanksgiving. But we haven’t gotten on a jet plane in a long time.

Hurricane Ian has come and gone, we didn’t lose power nor did any of our houses have major damage; mostly cleanup and Ernie had that under control.

Mandy drove us to Orlando airport very early Monday morning, thank you Mandy.

I have been monitoring the counts and created a spread sheet with a formula to help pick the best airport to fly out of and get into Frankfurt Germany.

The decision was to fly out of DTW (Detroit). We got on the first flight to Detroit and were seated in Comfort +. We enjoyed some coffee with our bourbon as we flew to DTW.

Once in DTW, we checked out the airport; well Kirsten did. I sat and had my second cup of coffee.

Kirsten came back and said come with me.

She bought us entry to Delta’s Sky Club ....WHAT!!!!!!

We had a 6 hour plus wait before going to Frankfurt, she said Delta’s Sky Room would be cheaper than my bar tab. LOL!!!

We’re on the plane and on our way....

Landed in Frankfurt, cloudy and scattered rain. We’ve been gone so long we don’t remember Frankfurt’s airport. So much has changed and its under major construction.

Kirsten discussed our trip with the customs officer, and he just waved me through.

We landed in terminal B realized we had to go to terminal A to pickup our car. We must have walked 3 miles. I’m not kidding, we got our morning exercise in.

Once in the car, Kirsten stalled the car until she got comfortable with the clutch.

While heading to our hotel, we stopped in Bingen. We walked around, stretched out and got some fresh air.

Around lunch time we found an Imbiss in the middle of nowhere, stopped and had a bratwurst and beer. It was so good.

We are heading to Brauneberg, Kisty found us a cute Zimmer on the Mosel. We’ve always talked about riding bicycles along the rivers in Germany and now we’re going to do it.

We arrived and checked into our Zimmer. It was too early for dinner, and we didn’t want to nap so we walked along the Mosel enjoying the cool weather. Once back from our walk, we had dinner at our Zimmer and we were feeling pretty worn out so off to bed we went..

I know this happened quickly, but the stars aligned and here we are.


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10th October 2022

WooHoo!
Love traveling vicariously through you all. Excited to hear about your trip.
11th October 2022

Awesome
So awesome to see y’all traveling again!!! Looking forward to Steve’s play by play cometary! Better than watching Rick Steves!!! ❤️
11th October 2022

Wishing you a fun and safe trip
I always enjoy reading your blogs in the past but haven’t commented before. Makes me so happy to see nice people I know venturing out again! Enjoy every minute!
11th October 2022

Looks like a blast!

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