Yesterday started off magically. I left Marburg, which was bittersweet because I don't think you could see all of Marburg's beauty in a lifetime but I was ready to be moving on towards Kassel. Just 5 miles or so from Marburg was the small farming town of Cölbe. The bike path ran along Cölbe's main street and the bakery and the butcher were next doo to one another. It was nine in the morning and the residents were doing their shopping. Joining them I got a c...

The tour is underway. It took a train out of Frankfurt yesterday and rode 66 miles through the Heesen countryside to the university town of Marburg. The trail ran along with the Lahn River and was very nice. However, I got lost about...oh...a dozen times. Sometimes it was the signs but mostly there were so many turns that if I looked away only briefly I could miss the correct one. And I did with consistent rapidity. But I pulled into my campsite at about 8 o'cloc...

Well, well, well. It\'s been quite a long week these past couple of days. I am in Frankfurt and I believe that the bike is set to go tomorrow. Within ten minutes in Germany, I made a friend. I was waiting next to the oversized luggage counter wondering about this long (maybe 10\') blue canvas bag. It was too big to be skis and too hefty to be fishing poles. Just then an older Chinese-German man ran up and grabbed it trying to heft it onto a cart. I didn\'t let...