October 9, 2022 – Let‘s Go!

Another month of traveling comes to an end and I can tell you: it is not getting boring! We broke some records and we do have brand new things on our list – some of which we don’t want to repeat 🥴

One Surgery and nine doctors visits – don’t try this at home!

Fourteen trains this months and I keep practicing not to jump off them and tear another meniscus. I do have one meniscus left, though… – don’t try this at home either!!

We got kicked off one train – we got a cheap “Bavaria Ticket” (=Bayern Ticket), that allows to travel a whole day on regional trains through Bavaria from 9am until 3am the next morning. “By accident” we ended up in an ICE train to Salzburg 🤪, and the conductor rolled his eyes and explained the rules. A few minutes later we heard an announcement over the speaker that “this is not a Bayern Ticket train” and everybody who is not entitled blabla… we were the only cheaters getting off at the next stop when we heard another announcement on the platform saying that “this is not a Bayern Ticket eligible train” blabla. I had the feeling that everybody inside the train starred at us two cheaters once the train continued to Salzburg – with high speed of course! Public shaming Bavarian style! So we waited half an hour for the next regional train that took its sweet time, but we made it to Salzburg after all, no problem 🥰

Salzburg

We were in Spain, Austria and Germany this month, traveling by airplane, bus, train and car. We also enjoyed 2 boat rides, one on an underground river and one on a sailboat.

October was the month with the most travel changes: instead of Valencia (Atlas Obscura tour) -> Malaga (visit my brother) -> Portugal (Macs Adventures hike along the Algarve) -> Morocco we ended up with Valencia -> Germany -> Germany -> Germany. The hiking trip we postponed to next year in October and the Morocco trip we postponed to November this year. I have three weeks now to recover, then we’ll be back on the road!

Airlines we used so far since we left California (12 flights all in all): United, Scandinavian Airlines, Eurowings, Alitalia, Ryan Air, Easy Jet, Air Europa, Air France, Lufthansa