i never, ever worried about tornadoes. because they never touched down.<\/p>\n
UNTIL LAST YEAR. a few blocks from our house. the tornado ripped the roof right off a house and they had to tear it down.<\/p>\n
now i\u2019m a little more edgy about tornadoes.<\/p>\n
we\u2019re just having a watch, not a warning right now, so i guess it\u2019s ok. but they say there was a tornado warning in waverly, which isn\u2019t far from here. <\/p>\n
winnie the cat insisted upon going outside. “you\u2019ll get swept away by the tornado,” i admonished him. he listened not and fled off into the night.<\/p>\n
he\u2019s back inside now, kind of soggy, as is honey, who is lying on the pillow right next to me.<\/p>\n
mollie is sleeping in one of her many beds on the floor.<\/p>\n
i gave her a second treat tonight because of the possibility of the tornado.<\/p>\n
we\u2019d have to all crowd into the bathroom if there was a tornado, because of our lack of basement. mollie, i know, would REFUSE to go in the bathroom because she\u2019d be afraid i was going to give her a bath.<\/p>\n
let\u2019s just say it\u2019s not going to happen.<\/p>\n
it would be nice if fall were here. i don\u2019t believe i\u2019ve ever thought like this in my entire life. but i\u2019m sick of the hot days. plus it\u2019s too late in the year to continue to get mosquito bites. there\u2019s at least one mosquito in the house now and it continue to chomp on me.<\/p>\n
ok, a few more photos of our trip. this was still the very first day of biking, as we headed towards our hotel for the night, the hotel donauschlinge. it was in the town of schlogen, which wasn\u2019t really a town at all. the town consisted of our hotel (a lovely place), a very nice rv campground, a marina, and another smaller hotel. <\/p>\n
we\u2019d been biking along the left bank and in order to cross the river, we took a small ferry. here\u2019s a view of the hotel from the ferry.<\/p>\n
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like i said, it was a beautiful hotel and we had a lovely room with a balcony, and i videotaped it quite a bit, but kevin didn\u2019t take many pictures. here\u2019s one from our balcony.<\/p>\n
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we walked around a bit, and had a good dinner in the hotel dining room. i had spaghetti. plus a good soup called fritattensuppe it was broth with slices of crepes in it. very good. they had an english version of the menu, so i didn\u2019t order the liver dumpling soup. although they clearly accommodated english-speaking guests, the young people who worked there didn\u2019t speak much english. i couldn\u2019t imagine what it would be like to work in such an isolated, albeit beautiful place. our waitress said that she lived there at the hotel, as did most of the others. <\/p>\n
the next morning, after a delicious breakfast, we were ready to head off. the trail was right there in front of the hotel – the easiest getting to the trail we had the whole trip. as you can see, by the time we finally left there was a new crowd of tourists coming in.<\/p>\n
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kevin took this picture of the ferry going back across the river. <\/p>\n
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we stayed on the right side of the road and it continued to be just beautiful. i think this was one of the prettiest parts of the trail. we had only ridden about five minutes when we stopped to take videos and pictures.<\/p>\n
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and here\u2019s a view of the hotel off in the distance.<\/p>\n
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this was one of the times when the trail was also the road, but i don\u2019t recall seeing any cars at all. we had to pass a huge grass-cutting vehicle, but that was all. we biked on and on, and it continued to be beautiful.<\/p>\n
i need to figure out how to update this website so i can then figure out how to post some videos. maybe the videos will be able to better capture the beauty of the place. but maybe you get the idea with the lovely photos.<\/p>\n
how could anybody not love this ride? i guess that\u2019s why it\u2019s so popular.<\/p>\n