These two weeks in Germany have been awesome. Those of us who came back to the US got in last night, and those of us who stayed on were on their respective trains yesterday afternoon. It all has been an eye-opening experience. Everything. There wasn't one thing that wasn't great. Well, maybe just one thing: traveling by train.
Traveling was a hassle. I think our group just has bad luck when it comes to trains. We were set with the train schedule; it was perfect. (Emphasis on the WAS). We had a two and a half hour train ride to Köln that then switched to a half hour train ride to Frankfurt. We were about an hour and a half into the first train ride when someone threw something at a window and broke it. They had to stop the train at the next station and fix it, so we had to take a different train. We finally got to Köln and just barely missed our connecting train (literally by 2 minutes). We then had to wait for a train that was a half hour later. For some reason, they had shortened that train and the amount of people on it had at least doubled. We didn't get that one. So, we waited for another train that was another half hour later. We finally got on that one. The group, weary, hassled, and exhausted, finally made it to Frankfurt and to the hotel.
The title of this post is "The End of the Beginning". I feel as if this trip was just the beginning of our traveling adventures. I am looking forward to starting out on my own (with some of my friends, of course) backpacking across Europe and (for me) Africa. I eagerly await being immersed in different cultures, seeing different landscapes, and enjoying all of the funny things that happen along the way. This trip may have come to an end, but it is only the beginning.
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