Massive Photo Update

Photo update spanning from the tail end of my (hopefully) first stay in the Arava through my two weeks in Germany/Czech Republic

The view looking at the gorgeous rock formations near the top of the "scorpion trail" between Idan and Be'er Sheva

View of the scorpion trail from near the top... there was a straighter, simpler path but it was so much less fun

How to fit 11 people "into" a car on my birthday.  Yes, there is video footage from/of me sitting on the hood of a moving vehicle (don't worry, parents, the car wasn't moving that fast... I'm sure that makes you feel better)

I call it "Keki's Arima Shrine" ... isn't it glorious?

On the road again.... the beginning of a ridiculous day of hitching

bound for Frankfurt from Dresden we ended up... stranded in Leipzig? But luckily there was this epic sunset

... and a rainbow.  You cant see the second one!

The wonderful dutchies we picked up who invited us to stay at a friend of a friends in Leipzig

hitching friends are wonderful friends

Keki might not have been 100% comfortable sitting on the roof 7 ish stories up... go figure

All of the random hitchers crashing in the flat 

I took this one.  Tell me it's not going to be the cover of their debut techno-folk album...

Keki mysteriously appearing (or rather, disappearing) through the roof hatch

On the road going so many places

This is what the world thinks of America.  This was the sign for the "American diner" we stumbled across... go us.

Bro showing me around the forest in Frankfurt! :)

I wouldnt be me if I didnt take a picture of the cool bark

Or the itty bitty size of your thumb nail frog

Yes, it's a giant woodpecker.  No, I can't say that with a straight face.

The direct quote from the city council after this was built was "well... we had a long weekend after the office holiday party and well... why not?"

Prague was spectacular.  That is all.

Made it to Prague!  In two hitches from Frankfurt!

Our CS host.

It's an old toilet.  Think about that.

I loved Prague

A lot... and of course I went to the Jewish quarter in Prague... who do you think I am?

Still my favorite from the spontaneous market where we bought matching rings and necklaces

Dream team does hitching.

We tried everything. 

It was a long miserable day as you can tell from my expression.

After waiting five hours in the rain at the wrong highway and then walking several km through the mud, rain, and spiney plants.

Our original hope of getting a single hitch all the way to Dresden....

... turned into begging for a ride to the next gas station in Czech.

which worked since this is a picture of Keki (and I) squeezed into the bucket seats in a PORSCHE

Yes.  We fit four people into this PORSCHE.  Please write this down in the hitching record books. K, thanks.

Demonstrating how to fit in the bucket seats in a porsche.

The semi we hitched.  Yeah.  That happened.

Cristoph (my CS host) giving me a private tour of the Reichstag. 

Holocaust memorial in Berlin was kind of weird with all of the tourists walking on/taking pictures on top of the columns

Obligatory picture of cool Berlin Wall art

Destroyed Church memorial?  Couldnt really tell but it was cool!

My favorite part of the wall. Troof.

My one obligatory tourist picture at the Berlin Wall

I know it's "juvenile" but all I could think of when I saw this sign was LA saying "your jokes are the wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurst"

Why yes I am opening this beer bottle with a lighter.  

My favorite part of Berlin... it's a PIRATE SHIP SLIDE.  Take that in for a moment. 

Abandoned Airport (read: park?)