H:
Glad you liked the Baroque cycle. Very long, but worth it. Stephenson said in an interview that he likes researching and writing about eras most people aren't very interested in. I certainly didn't know much about the late 1600s and early 1700s before reading his Baroque cycle... In that same interview, he said his next book might take place in the 1950s...

We have finalized our plans for our Italy/Germany trip. The USA-Ghana game is in Nuremberg on June 22, and we are travelling from Salzburg the day before. Looking online, all the Nuremberg hotels were booked (except for the $500-per-night places), but we found a double room in a little (11-room) hotel in the middle of Nuremberg! We emailed the hotel directly. Thanks Lonely Planet guidebook! So two nights in Nuremberg, 6/21 and 6/22.

That means that we will travel to Lichtenfels on Friday, June 23 and stay till Sunday (when we go to Rothenburg odT). I figure we can go have lunch on Friday at 14 Heiligen, and then do a little sight-seeing tour of LIF and die Schney. Hanging with the 'old buddies' Friday and Saturday nights.
Saturday, we'll be tourists in Bamberg, which gets a really great write-up in the Lonely Planet guide. JP and H, you should appreciate the fact that you guys went to high school in a pretty cool city...

That's the plan! The trip is now a big one: Rome-Sorrento-Florence(and Sienna)-Venice-Salzburg-Nuremberg-Lichtenfels-Rothenburg-Munich. No cars, but lots of train travel!

Glad to hear you're getting better Dad. H: good to have you blogging again. JP - off the radar?

C
P.S. The Central Park Coyote was found to have 35 heartworms! So the oxygen in his bloodstream was very low, and the stress of his adventures and capture led to his death... Poor guy. I still find it amazing he made it all the way into Central Park!
- posted by Christoph Roggenkamp @ 4/13/2006 03:09:00 PM