a milestone!

Day 15
Ulm, Germany
1050km

I was all excited to have a photo for you all of us toatsing our first 1000km milestone with champagne, but after ordering it again and again from the nice old spanish-german lady that runs our hotel and the restaurant underneath, we gave up. David kept asking and she kept nodding and smiling, but we never got it.

Anyway, who needs champagne to celebrate! We are a quarter of the way! It´s going so fast :(

We ended up doing two days in one today, as we were done our first 40km before noon, so we kept on to Ulm, a giant city. As is always the case in cities, it was hard to find living arrangements for the night. We have ended up in a very nice hotel in the downtown center right across from the highest church tower in the world - at this point, the scaffolding mounted to the side of the church to repair its weary siding is what seems to capture our interest the most. It is quite amazing to see this and the tower itself is gorgeous.

The rain has been following us for days on end, however, today we did have the whole afternoon in the hot sun again after the low-laying fog that accompanied us for most of the a.m. burned off. But...it´s pouring now.

We are eating insane amounts of really great food and the only one who feels moderatly guilty about the quantities is Troy. As the support driver, he doesn´t get much exercise, but has decided to start pulling the van to even things up a bit.

The guys also drink an impressive amount of beer and most of our late afternoons involve lumbering from one outdoor patio to the next to taste all the possibilities. I, of course, RARELY partake in such tomfoolery - oops, gotta go, my beer has arrived...

Until next time :)