Thursday, August 17th, Dresden, Germany

Greetings!

Today was a traveling day from Berlin to Dresden.  A couple of hours along the way, we stopped at Wittenberg, the hometown of Martin Luther.  On Halloween, his trick was to nail 95 complaints against a castle church door a short walk from his monastery residence. Challenging among other things the indulgences being given to rich families for dead ancestors, Luther proposed an academic discussion of the efficacy of these practices.

During the remainder of the day, we experienced the adventures of the challenged.  Many of the routes across Germany were closed, and our re-routing proved confusing.  I felt very much like we were driving in circles, and we were in someone else's nightmare.

The highlight of the day was our lunch at a mountain restaurant overlooking the Elbe Valley, in Saxony.  Just before our Dresden road trip got frustrating, I'll remember the vanilla ice cream/strawberry sorbet  desert as the perfect calm before the storm.  

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