Oberammergau, Germany to Kloten, Switzerland
Today was another fun day! We are still wearing winter clothes (which
means they are relatively clean since it was hot and shorts weather
everywhere else!) When we got up this morning, it was rainy and cold.
I am still so thankful that we bought those rainsuits before we left!!
After a lovely breakfast at the hotel we stayed in, we drove to downtown
Oberammergau where I visited the shops (I love looking!) and took some
pictures. They have beautiful woodcarvings, and beautiful painted
buildings! Saw some great Christmas items and some beautiful dolls, but
all were way over-priced since this is the year of the Passion Play. We
considered going to the Passion Play, until we saw the price of the
tickets. If our German was better, we might have done it. Maybe in 10
years.
After touring Oberammergau, Lonnie once again took a one-lane road to
seemingly nowhere. I asked if he was sure the road went somewhere, and
he answered, "Absolutely, look what is following us." I looked behind
us to see a huge tour bus following. We drove a little farther around a
bend and didn't see the Tour Bus come behind us. I told Lonnie that the
tour bus must have taken a side road, and perhaps we should go back.
Then I looked on the GPS map and saw that the road we were driving down
was a dead-end. We turned around and went back, only to find the large
tour bus just sitting on the side of the road. The side road was shown
as a dead-end on the GPS map, also. There was really no place to turn
around, so I am not sure what the Tour Bus did with all of it's
people. It was really quite funny to think that they were in the same
pickle we had been in numerous times on this trip!
Next we drove to Schloss Linderhof, one of King Ludwig's many castles.
Apparently this was his favorite, and the only one that he truly lived
in. We did not tour it, since we had been there before. When we were
there with Peyton several years ago, they had been working on the front
of it, so there was scaffolding across the front, so that you really
couldn't see it. This time we were able to get some great pictures of
it! Lonnie wanted to drive that road because we had also stopped that
year by the side of a lake for a picnic, and beside a stream for he and
Peyton to throw rocks into. We found both of those places, then
continued on down the road. We also drove by some castle ruins that we
had visited in the past (on top of a mountain, of course),
Then, we ended up going a new way that we had never been before. It
was over a high mountain pass. At one point, we had to wait for some
cows to pass us on the road. They were going to high pasture. As we
were going across the pass, the clouds settled in making it almost
impossible to see. When we started down from the Pass, but still in the
mountains, we were stopped by the Police, who explained something to us
in German (which of course we did not understand). We thought that
perhaps they had closed the road due to low visibility. It turned out
that there was a car race up and down the mountain road - on the hairpin
curves with straight down sides, in the thick, dense fog!! When the
race was over, the police let everyone go on down the mountain! Amazing!!
After going down the mountain, we hit the Autobahn and made good time to
Kloten where we are staying tonight. We plan to travel to Grindelwald
tomorrow where we will just chill for a couple of days until time to fly
home. (We may literally chill if the weather stays as cold as it is).
As we got closer to Kloten the sun was shining, but the temps are still
low. I am really not looking forward to hot, Memphis weather! (but I am
looking forward to seeing family!!)
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