An Accidental Roadtrip

On Saturday Megan had a soccer game and needed to back in Butzbach in the early afternoon. We were too slow going in the morning to walk to the train station, so Aaron said he would drive us down there. But his car wouldn’t start- it had gotten too cold the night before (which I will so post about later today). Anyway, we ended up missing Megan’s first train. So we decided we would have time to take her to Remagen (because her ticket had her changing trains there with a layover of 30 min).

My host family helping Aaron boost his car.



Meg looking seriously less than impressed with things.

Well, we missed that train as well. Eventually we got the car started. So we agreed to just take her to Koblenz and have her catch the train there. We were about 10 minutes to late for her to catch her train, so Meg went to talk to the Travel Centre people. Aaron and I were sitting in the parking lot at the Koblenz train station talking about our plans for the rest of the day, when Aaron was like- we should call and see if she can get another train. Alas, again no luck. Meg was going to be late no matter what train she ended up taking. Aaron apparently like driving really lots so he offered to drive her home to Butzbach. So basically, the three of us made the most indirect trip to Megan’s house as humanely possible.

The roadside public bathrooms. They definately looked nicer than they actually were :(

Aaron psyching out the people driving on the right side of the car...



The tapedeck in the car and Aaron's personal mix tapes. This one is just for Evan.

I wanted to post a map with the route on it but i couldn't figure out how to make it work. Basically the route went from Bad Bodendorf to Koblenz, Koblenz to the outskirts of Frankfurt am Main to Butzbach. So very indirect. check it out on google maps. its not so pretty. Also, getting in the car and driving basically the distance from Edmonton to Calgary is kinda frowned on here. The Roadtrip/driving for fun is not so socially acceptable here it seems