The Plan and the Preparation
Yes! it is a long time to be gone, but in the planning it seems not enough. Maybe that is always the way with travel! In a way Carol and I rarely take "vacations" but rather we travel - which we consider just part of our life experience. We were fortunate to have a successful run in the restaurant business and mostly because it enriched our lives with a great family with our staff and customers and the joy of creating food and an atmosphere that was appreciated. Along with enjoying our career in the business you all know that our ten week annual closure of the Rhody was an essential component of what made the restaurant work for us, so a ten week excursion only seems fitting. on our Latin America trip we took a year & a half ago we struck up a friendship with Jurgen and Sylvia who reside in western Germany and so our first stop via Frankfurt is Freisen, Germany. After two+ weeks exploring thei...