And what was Dan doing all this time? I've asked him to write this blog post and tell you.
Hallo, Dan here. Maura said I had to write about what I did while she was off gallivanting around the Alps. The second part of my conference was a road trip to a bunch of various military headquarters that are located around Germany and Belgium. So, each day was about 5 hours in a car, stop at a hotel, grab dinner, sleep, wake up and go to a bunch of talks and tours about what that particular base did, then back in the vans for 5 more hours. Our itinerary was:
Grafenwöhr, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, Kaiserslautern, Mons, Waterloo, Luxembourg, and Garmish
We took a little bit of time in Belgium for some more touristy type things. We stopped at the Waterloo battlefield museum/memorial north of Mons for one afternoon. Below are pictures from that. Also we broke up the last day’s drive by stopping at the US Military Cemetery in Luxembourg. I probably took fewer pictures than Maura did.
Here are some chicken statues that were outside of a restaurant we ate dinner at the 1st or 2nd night.
I wonder what was for sale at this store?
This was the view out my hotel window in Mons.
Some art on the walk to dinner.
Proof that I was in Belgium.
The city center plaza in Mons.
The rest are photos from the Waterloo battlefield.
The monument is a giant earthen mound with a lion on top.
Various uniforms that would have been worn by various armies at the battle of Waterloo.
These cartoon maps amused me. They all show a version of the political situation in Europe around the period of the Napoleonic Wars.
This was a neat video they had showing some recreation of how the battle unfolded.
After the museum, we climbed all the steps up to the top of the mound.
Here is a 360 view of what looking from the middle of the memorial mound might have looked like in the middle of the mound.
It was hard to get a picture of the lion from right below it.
Again, I was there.
After travelling around we ended up back in Garmisch, our starting point.
After travelling around we ended up back in Garmisch, our starting point.
This concludes my adventures for the week.
