Car tours part I

So with Jims new carkeys burning a hole in his pocket we headed out on the town for our first family outing on our own! It was exciting, till Jim started driving AWAY from town and into God's country. This area is beautiful, clean, small towns, well cared for homes. But after the 100'th wheat field and an hour past lunch time we made our way back to the hotel.

We managed to drive to three major cities and through countless towns. Streets names or numbers arent as important out here as knowing the name of the town you are heading to. Locals dont need to be distracted with remembering a highway name, they are just heading to Windenbach (which by the way is harder to pronounce than you would think).

The area is rather flat out here. There are rolling hills aplenty. Its interesting, it would seem that the fields out here arent in straight square shapes, they are more fluid than that. And there are small patched of forests in the middle of these fields (which most currently hold wheat) which makes them stand out considerably, much like the adorable homes that the farmers and locals live in. As you will see the homes all are in the same general shape, the roofs are all red bricked, and stucco-sided in a white-ish wash. We must have passed at least 20 cities today, and if you didnt know the name was different you wouldnt have known you were in a different town. It was amazing that so many people out here continue to follow the traditions and preferences that were created hundreds of years ago.

All in all it was a lovely day, a storm caught up to us towards the end of our drive and some killer thunderstorms announced our arrival home. It was fun to watch the lightning stretch across the sky against the backdrop of wheat fields, farm homes and black skies.

I am sure that we will be taking more trips in the near future and I will make Jim stop so I can actually get out and walk around to take even more pictures to show off.

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