For those of you who don't already know, I'll be flying home tomorrow for the holidays... it seemed like the best thing to do as I haven't seen my family for a while, and, you know, the holidays are good for that sort of thing as a general rule. Also, after recovering from what is probably the sickest I've ever been, (and being in that state while stuck in a 6 bed dorm room in the hostel that the Grand High Hypertrekking Counsil had stayed in, but I was too sick to leave and so wound up sharing my lovely affliction with total strangers, two of whom were of the prerequisite granola nature I'd bemoaned about in a previous post. argh.) I decided it might not be a bad idea to take a break for a while. I've been sick alot this past couple of months.
Anyway I was feeling much better by yesterday, so I took a train down to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where I worked for three years when I first came to Germany in '97, and pretty much walked the length and breadth of it for a pleasant, melancholy stroll down messy memory lane. I really enjoyed working there; it's a beautiful little sort of cut-off-from-the-world valley surrounded by huge Alpen rocks, one of which is the tallest mountain in Germany.
Major ski town. I learned how to snowboard there, and also how cool lederhosen really are. If Americans weren't so narrow-minded about such things, I'd be wearing calf socks and lederhosen while yodelling from the tops of main street shops all day long. Well... that's rather a stretch. I'd wear lederhosen to work, anyway. Maybe I'll open a nice German beer garden in Strousdburg, make the boys wear lederhosen and the girls wear dirndles, and post a sign that says: "Keine Bayerisch Moden, Keine Eintritt!!"
Right.
So my good friend Christy, who wasn't mad at me after all, but only having me on, (oh you!) will be picking me up at JFK tomorrow. She's taking me to my Dad's new house that I've never been to somewhere near Allentown, where I will lead a low key existence and catch up with him and my siblings for the holiday, which I am really looking forward to. I'm probably going to be around for a while, so anybody that wants to hang out should drop me a line... I'm looking for something fun to do on New Years!
All of this means, of course, that I won't have any more foreign adventure travellogues to blog about for a while, which depresses me when I think about it too much, so please don't stop visiting if this page gets (temporarily! I swear!) dull! I have to find a new subject now; No longer in Baghdad, Democrats are in charge in the House and Senate, no more getting sick in other countries... aghk! I have nothing to complain about! It's the end of the blogging universe for me!
Well I still have to figure out that whole silly thing about where exactly, my life is going, what it's all about, and whether normalcy is really an acceptable answer. And while that may not be exciting, perhaps it'll be enough to post creative lies about it once or twice a month until I can hit the road again.
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