Monthly Archives: August 2023

This post is about a 28km walk from Inzigkofen to Beuron. I enter the Upper Danube Nature Park and get ignored at a monastery. Four days of rain. I spent them in a guesthouse in the village, and it wasn’t so bad. The room was cheap, and there was a supermarket nearby where I was […]

This post is about a 17km walk from Heudorf to Inzigkofen. I walk past a refugee camp and a neo-gothic castle, and it rains. The night had been a bit difficult. Two separate thunderstorms had passed by, one to the east of the hut and the other one to the west, and both had brought […]

This post is about an 8km walk from Hundersingen to Heudorf. I start the day by playing Mario Kart, and then I camp next to a forest cabin. After breakfast the kids and I sat down and played Mario Kart. I was worried about their skills, so I picked Roy as my driver because he […]

This post is about a 14km walk from Riedlingen to Hundersingen. I bathe in the Danube, see a Celtic dig, and get saved from a thunderstorm. What a morning! I crawled out of my tent, brushed my teeth, took my underwear off, and hopped in the Danube. morning swim The river was cold and clear, […]

This post is about a 20km walk from Untermarchtal to Riedlingen. I visit one of the most beautiful churches I’ve ever seen. I was woken up by church bells. It was six in the morning, and the bells were very close and extremely loud. a night at the church The night before I had arrived […]

This post is about a 24km walk from Öpfingen to Untermarchtal. I have breakfast with Vivien and Luisa, then I lose the Danube. I had slept well under the apple tree. There weren’t that many apples, which was good because many apples usually meant many wasps. And Germany was full of fucking wasps. Vivien and […]

This post is about a 26km walk from Ulm to Öpfingen. I stand on a bridge that I have crossed before, and I sleep under an apple tree. I rested in Ulm for two days. Then I walked down to the Danube. the bridge There was a bridge over the river, which I had crossed […]

This post is about a 23km walk from Silheim to Ulm. I reach the Danube and the world’s tallest church, and I cross paths with myself. My hosts had to leave for work at seven in the morning, so I got up early and left with them. There was a veil of fog that slipped […]

This post is about a 19km walk from Kammeltal to Silheim. I look for Yenish people in Ichenhausen but only manage to find a former synagogue. I had spent the night on a campground in Kammeltal. It was actually a sort of trailer park for camper vans, but they let me stay anyway. When I […]

This post is about a 16km walk from Zusmarshausen to Kammeltal. I see the ruins of the Kuno Messerschmitt assembly site. After resting for a day in the guesthouse in Zusmarshausen, after doing my laundry and watching a few episodes of Party Down, I got up and walked into the forest. more planes from the […]

This post is about a 27km walk from Augsburg to Zusmarshausen. I leave the Climate Camp and run into another environmentalist. I had ended up spending the night at the Climate Camp. My new friends Passion Fruit and Mandala had given me a little booth to sleep in, and I had parked the Caboose right […]

This post is about a 19km walk from Lake Mandicho to Augsburg. I see a very rich family’s house, and I meet some climate activists. I woke up in my bivouac sack. The grass around me was wet, the lake was quiet, and my friend Bower and his son Eric were still asleep under their […]

This post is about an 11km walk from Merching to Lake Mandicho. I arrive at a lake called Auensee and decide to do a very German thing. I had spent the night at another friend’s house: Ralph. More than twenty years earlier, we had worked together in a youth hostel in Frankfurt as part of […]

This post is about a 22km walk from Unterumbach to Merching. I feel listless until I notice an outdoor art exhibition. When I left Unterumbach I felt groggy and weak. It had been raining almost the whole time while I was at my friend Bower’s place, so staying in and frying our brains with computer […]

This post is about a 20km walk from Bergkirchen to Unterumbach. I hang out with Hilde the cat, then I walk over to my friend’s house. The night before, when I arrived at the small village of Bergkirchen, the sky looked like wind and rain. So I rang the bell of a farm house and […]

This post is about a 16km walk from Dachau to Bergkirchen. I pass the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial and the herbary of the SS. I had stayed the night in a hotel next to a gas station, a fast food place, and a hardware store. When I stepped out of the front door in the […]

This post is about a 17km walk from Munich to Dachau. There is a lot of rain, and there is an underlying feeling of exhaustion. Time to go. I went and got the Caboose from her spot in the other yard, then I loaded her up. It took me a very long time for some […]