the (new) endomobile

[SKT]

Bon voyage!

[Twistlock]

Where ya going @endo ?

[Matt]

Are you starting your journey to Baltimore?

[endo]

Yesterday, after leaving the practice, I drove to Hamburg to visit my son, and then continued on to see an old friend in Hanover, where I spent the night in the bus. Today, I’m heading to Frankfurt for a 50th birthday party, where I’ll be meeting the wonderful Mrs. E. On Sunday, we’ll be crossing the Alps together for a two-week trip to Italy—specifically Ravenna, Loreto, San Marino, Padua, and Venice. Afterward, we’ll head to the Eastern Alps; if the weather cooperates, we plan to tackle a via ferrata or two, or perhaps go on a mountain hike. I’ll keep you posted!

[Chap]

Have a great and safe trip! Looking forward to see pics

[Daniel San]

@endo
have a wonderful trip my friend , and best wishes for Mrs E !

[endo]

Installed a small sink for brushing teeth. Everything is just preliminary—traveling is more important than building.

[endo]

Frankfurt

Staying at Hotel Nizza, an Artists‘ Hotel (mainly used by bands, opera people etc) right in the old city centre.

[endo]

[goosehd]

@endo beautiful ️

[endo]

Our overnight spot for today in the Alps, just past the Gotthard Tunnel.

[Chap]

@endo I love that area. I slept a couple of times up in the Gotthard Hospiz.
That was my spot for two nights above Faido

[endo]

The drive up along Lake Lucerne was beautiful.

[endo]

Today's program took us to Ravenna. I've always wanted to see the tomb of Theodoric the Great, a very interesting figure in the context of the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It's from 526 A.D.

[endo]

But Ravenna also offers many wonderful old churches, baptisteries and other mausoleums from the late Roman period, especially interesting because of their mosaic art, like the Mausoleo di Galla Placidia.

[endo]

The Basilica di San Vitale

and the Battistero Neoniano

[endo]

Dante Alighieri's tomb is also in Ravenna.

[goosehd]

Outstanding!!! Thank you

[endo]

But last not least it was Mrs E's birthday, so we had a nice aperitivo in piazza and a great dinner later.

[endo]

Now we're going to have a nice sleep in the bus.

and it seems that Virginia Wolf once said, "no one can think well, sleep well, love well, unless he has first eaten and drunk well."

I think I have to agree with her.