#14

Once we were finished with our meetings and our long driver we arrived in Inzell, Germany. The next day we went to Austria for the day. It was a lot of fun and country number fourteen on my list of countries visited around the world. At the start of this trip I thought I was going to only go to one new country and it turns out I will be in two new ones. That is way cool. When we left Germany we were headed to Wagrain Austria. It is a town that is very popular in our circle so it was good to see what everyone was talking about. It is a great little ski town where the atomic headquarters are.
Austria is a great place. It is very steep. When you enter the country it is about 500 meters above sea level. It stays that way for a while and then gets steep quickly. It is very rocky. Very different than any place I have been. One of the places we went was to Hans’s mother’s house. She has lived in Wagrian for almost her whole life. She is in her 80s and she still rents rooms to people. That is a big deal in Austria, to rent some of your rooms out so that you do not have to pay the full amount of the taxes on your house. She knows no English and I know no German so needless to say we solved a lot of problems. She is a great lady and very fun.


We did not go skiing/snowboarding but we did have fun. We drove up to the middle of the mountain and had some lunch. While we were at lunch there is a very fun game that everyone plays. The game goes like this; you hammer a nail into a stump using the small end of the hammer. It is very hard. The game is used to determine all kinds of things like, who pays the bill, who gets the next round or even who is better at bar games. The game was a lot harder than it looked but it was played by all.


















We took the scenic way home and it was only about 15 minutes longer than the highway. It is crazy to think that even with all of the tunnels through the mountains it is just as face to drive around them. Plus there are no trucks which makes the drive a lot nicer. It was one of the best days to spend a day off in Europe. More to Come.