Carrie's Travels

  🎶The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music🎶 Salzburg, the city that just about every American thinks of when they think of the Sound of Music. But it’s also a city of art and architecture, and music. I left Munich behind on Monday morning. I boarded my train to country #16, only to find this train didn’t have any luggage space. So for the entire 2-hour train ride to Salzburg, I had to sit holding on to my luggage. It wasn’t super uncomfortable, but it wasn’t comfortable either. But no matter, I made it to Salzburg in one piece and found my way to my hotel.  I’d booked this place on booking.com, but it’s actually 3 “apartments” that are rented out by a chain of stores. They have different departments of the store across several different locations around Salzburg. The lovely lady from the store shows me to the apartment. First down this long hallway, up to the 4th floor by elevator, down another hallway, around 2 corners, and up a set of stairs, then another short hallway...

  It’s finally that time again. I get to use my passport and travel to a place I’ve never been. Where the food is “weird” and the people talk “funny.” Where I can’t understand the road signs, and all the prices have a different currency symbol.  The last time I left the country was July of 2019. I brought a group of students to Costa Rica. It was an amazing trip, and I loved it, but I think I took it for granted that it was something I’d be able to keep doing.  I originally planned this trip to Germany and Austria for June of 2020, but well, we all know how that went. Last summer, I planned another student trip to Ireland with my sister-in-law Ann and a group of students. But Ireland was still requiring a 2-week quarantine last June. It was only supposed to be a 10-day trip. So that trip got canceled as well. Which brings us to this summer. June 2022. Germany has always been on my list of places to experience. Knowing that it’s part of my history and heritage, I wanted to...