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This morning I walked back to the cemetery around the corner from St. George Church. Along the way I passed this store. I had seen it last night and didn’t realize it was a block away from the cemetery…I thought it was vases in the window…
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It was much larger than it appeared last night.
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Behind the building in the background is another area just as large as this one...the whole place takes up a complete city block.
It is a current, active cemetery with open graves readied to be filled.
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After I left the cemetery, I walked back to the hotel, loaded the car and headed to my next location, Kaiserslautern, about 4 hours away. By 1:00 I was desperate to find a place to eat. I was going to pull off at a gas station/food stop when I turned too soon and found myself leaving the Autobahnen. At the first traffic circle I saw a small sign for Chinese food…with the usually good luck I have for finding great places to eat, I made a turn and found the resturant. It was upscale with white table cloths and cloth napkins. The only words I could read on the menu was Chop Suey so I order that and a Tsingtao. When the waiter asked soup or spring roll, I choose the spring roll…again the same large freshly made kind, as I had at the last Chinese place.
The dollar is for scale, so you can see how large it was.
And on the back was English:
As I was eating, I noticed two children excitedly pull their father out the door…when they returned empty handed but still similing... I thought no vending machines, what were they excited about? On my way out the door I looked around and saw their source of excitement…the space between his front and hind legs was about the length of a dollar.
As I headed to the traffic circle, Tinky Winky started shouting for me to go back…he had spotted a Kodak opportunity.
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The check came with a fortune cookie...in German:
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