Our trip has finally come to the day I had planned around for many months.  We were meeting our driver and going outside of Krakow to Rudy Rysie.  Josef Zurek had left his home and village of Rudy Rysie in probably late 1912 or early 1913 to make the journey to America. The family stories […]

The first of our tours begins today.  I had made arrangements with a car service for transportation to the different locations I expected to go while in the Cracow area.  One of these was to join an English speaking tour of the Wieliczka Salt Mines just outside of Cracow. This is one of those tourist […]

It was a big day today.  I could hardly sleep last night.  We were being picked up at 8:30 and taken to the Motorola Krakow office.  Since I was going to be in town, I really wanted to stop in the office and try to meet some people that I’ve been working with for a […]

We woke up in Krakow this morning.  Wait, everything I see pretty much says Cracow. We got up with sunshine and headed upstairs to breakfast.  The breakfast was big, bright, and radiant with sunshine.  It also contained some pretty darn tasty looking food.  We went around the buffet and picked up the things that looked […]

Our last morning in Germany came without event.  We woke up to bright sunshine.  This was a sad day for us.  We had enjoyed our time in Germany so much.  As I knew would happen, I wouldn’t want to leave. We went down for breakfast and then let them know we would be leaving soon […]

How lucky can we get?  We woke up this morning to rain pouring down.  Berchtesgaden was getting a good soaking, but we were going to be leaving today.  After breakfast, we packed the car and headed down the hill.  The rain was light by the time we were heading out of the city.  This was […]

This morning, we woke to sun and better temperatures.  We went down to breakfast and then asked a couple of questions about where to go today.  We also needed help with the safe since it appeared locked and we couldn’t use it.  Petra came up to help us.  Wolfgang, her husband, told us the Eagle’s […]

We got up this morning to cloudy skies in Garmisch.  They were hanging pretty low over the mountains around the town.  We might have the threat of rain for our drive deeper in the German Alps and Bavaria as we head to Berchtesgaden. We went down to the Fruhestrucher Raum for breakfast.  I love the […]

The rain continued through the night.  As expected, it wasn’t going to be a good day for any major sightseeing.  The plan today was to drive back to Oberammergau and walk around town.  This little hamlet is home to the passion play that runs every 10 years.  Back in 1634, the town promised to have […]

Again with the hot weather?  That can’t stop us from enjoying today.  We got up early and headed downstairs to breakfast.  I think the breakfast room is called Fruhkstracker Raum.  We were met by a gentleman who said, “Gut Morgen.”  He seated us at table and introduced our server.  We got kaffee and Rich ordered […]