Daily Archives: August 12, 2015

Dang it… I mentioned Nazis again… so here is a picture of me petting a horse and also a bunch of pretty flowers to take your minds off… you know… those guys…

That last post was supposed to clear your mind of… those two earlier posts… but I talked about them again… so to make up for it, here are a few of the pictures Mollie and I took in the lovely … Continue reading

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And now, a fairy-tale castle and some beautiful scenery… you know… to get the taste of Nazi concentration camps out of our skulls…

Our very last day-trip in Germany, on our very last full day in Europe, was to visit Neuschwanstein castle… We drove out from Munich for a few hours and Mollie finally got to see the Alps… which you have to at … Continue reading

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Dachau… part 2… I think my face pretty much says it all…

Are there words to explain a place like this? Words don’t do it justice. The windows in the top of that little tower make it look harmless and commonplace… when there aren’t machineguns sticking out of them… The sky is … Continue reading

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Dachau… part 1… (or); what an unfunny thing to put on a humor blog…

The words translate to something like: ‘Work will set you free’… probably the most cynical use of language in history… and it was on the gates on most of the Nazi concentration camps, as far as I know. It was … Continue reading

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