11 January 2009

Home again, home again


We are back in Hamburg after 2+ weeks in the US spent trekking around to see family and friends. It was a great trip, but I'm having a hard time describing everything we did at all coherently. I will keep trying, but for the moment suffice it to say that we were mainly in the general Boston area; we went as far north as Belfast, Me; as far South as Tafton, PA; and ate lots of tasty food.

We came back via Dublin and Düsseldorf for complicated and boring reasons, and then took the train from Düsseldorf to Hamburg. I don't recommend this when you are carrying four bags crammed full of books and woodworking tools and have been awake for almost 24 hours, but the train came in over the Elbe and we were able to see some of the ice that accumulated in the very cold weeks we were gone. Arriving back in Hamburg felt like coming home - in a more tentative way than when we lived in Seattle, but still home. Since we are able to stay in our current apartment until the end of May we have five months with no planned trips or moves, which sounds quite fabulous right now. Happy New Year!

2 comments:

oma said...

hey! welcome back! we were just chatting at s&b about you two and how we missed blog updates. traci and george should be parents by monday... :) stay warm.

Kathleen said...

I'm in the process of another one, I fell off the wagon while we were in the US. We miss s&b, sitting on our couch knitting just the two of us isn't the same!