Greetings from Freiburg, Germany. I arrived here yesterday after a five hour car ride from Roland, a software engineer, from Munich. I was going to catch the ride by hitchhiking (or "autostop", as most of the Europeans call it) but it was pooring down rain all morning and rain is not a hitchers friend. So with the help of a great German ride board I found a 15 Euro ride all the way through the Swartzwald (or Black Forest) to the small but bubbling university town of Freiburg.

Quickly upon arriving I met up with Olivia, my 39th host of my adventure. Olivia is a college student from California studying German and Psychology at the Uni here in Freiburg. I've been here less than 24 hours and we've already done so much! Last night we cooked a great salmon pasta with this...I can't remember what it's called. Let's just say it was really yummy. Today we walked all over the city and up a mountain trail that overlooked the whole town. I loved it.

Now it's 6pm and I'm exhausted. Olivia just left to catch up with her boyfriend for a Spanish movie that's either in spanish with german subtitles or german language with spanish subtitles. Either way, I opted to hang out at here place for some alone time. I haven't read any of the books I have in my pack in a week or so and I just keep amassing them. Time to get reading!

By the way, thanks again to Glenn for the books London and Celestine Prophesy and Olivia for...I can't think what it's called right now:)

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Posted October 2, 2004 11:14 AM @ (GMT - 6)