After
this packed two weeks it is time to go home.
Patte, Dave, Beth, Jack, Phil and I are all on the same Lufthansa
flights to Boston: 1:05pm--Krakow to Munich
-- then 3:20pm Munich to Boston arriving at 6:20pm. The flights are uneventful for the most part
but oh so cramped even on a brand new plane
It
is always good to get home ---this time I am so thankful that we signed up for
the Global Entry System with Homeland Security.
We walked right through the Global Entry aisle -- put our passports on a
machine face down -- and breezed through in a matter of minutes. I think we were walking in our front door
before most passengers had even gotten through the Immigration line at Logan
Airport. I highly recommend this for
anyone who travels internationally.
The
"Elegant Elbe" trip was quite an eye opener -- although I have been
to Germany a number of times -- it is my first trip to what used to be East
Germany and to the Czech Republic and to Poland. These people have come a very long way in
the past 25 years --- especially given what they had been through with the
Nazi's and then under Communism. I
applaud each and every one of them for their resilience and ability to move
forward with their lives -- it shows in how they have rebuilt their cities and
are welcoming tourists.
For
those of you still reading -- thanks for your patience. I truly had very little time to write on
this trip because we were so busy. I did
not realize how much I would enjoy writing the half of the blog that I wrote
from home after the fact. It allowed
me the opportunity to revisit some of these places and to think more about what
we learned and what it means.
Thanks
for Reading.
Pat
Thanks for writing! :)
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