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Jun 7, 2025: Ferropolis, in Gräfenhainichen, Germany - The Bagger 197 bucket-chain excavator. If you zoom way in you can see Wade. The treads alone are taller than …
Jun 7, 2025: The VW “Transparent Factory” in Dresden. Very cool place, but no photos allowed once we were in the production area …even though the whole point of it …
Jun 7, 2025: The “Lokschuppen” (Engine Shop, roughly?) at the Dresden Neustadt train station.
Jun 7, 2025: Berlin, Germany - We found a working paternoster! It’s in the old “NeuesDeutschland” building on the East side of town.
Jun 7, 2025: Paris, France. No caption necessary. Except that yes, this is out of order.
Jun 6, 2025: Dresden, Germany - Please no one disabuse me of the notion that this means “Berserk School”
Jun 3, 2025: Parisians lost their minds when Paris Saint Germaine (aka PSG) won the European Championship, a few days ago. Two people died in the rioting, and …
Jun 2, 2025: A public garden just across from the main train station in Nantes, and there’s a flock of chickens just running around! 😄
Jun 2, 2025: The Augustine Fresnel, a buoy handling and lighthouse maintenance vessel that happened to be entering the harbor in Saint-Nazaire as we walked past
Jun 1, 2025: Saint-Nazaire, France. When I was 16, AirBnB didn’t exist. We’re staying in one here, and I love the flavor of just being in a residential …
May 31, 2025: Les Machines De L’ile’s Giant Robot Elephant!!
May 29, 2025: We spent the afternoon on the HMS Belfast. This was in the onboard machine shop. “It’s a pantograph mill!” he exclaimed when he first saw this. …
May 29, 2025: London - the view from our cheap Travelodge hotel room. Wade looked out last night and said something like “I love how three-dimensional cities are” …
May 27, 2025: Tree. What doing. Do you even know how to tree? Why make so many smol on big?
May 27, 2025: “The Cobbler” (aka Beinn Artair) seen from near Rowchoish
May 27, 2025: Setting out on the West Highland Way at Balmaha One day’s hiking, to Sallochy The day’s journal entry Loch Lomond in the morning light
May 26, 2025: En route to our three-day hike by Loch Lomond
May 25, 2025: One rule of global backpacking adventures is that if you experience a minor catastrophe, you simply declare it a win. I packed a canister of Quaker …
May 25, 2025: As a Philadelphian … and as a person who has eaten both sushi and burritos … I have no idea how to even process what this could be.
May 25, 2025: The Kelpies
May 25, 2025: Day one of a ninety day trip, and I found my boot lace had frayed. 😄
May 25, 2025: Edinburgh street art
May 25, 2025: On the ground in Scotland! In lieu of any kind of arrival picture you’d expect, I offer you this crazy little machine that caught Wade’s eye as we …
May 25, 2025: Departure from State College Stopover at Dulles. Something I love about traveling (anywhere) with Wade is his eye for infrastructure. Left: “Mobile …
May 24, 2025: The route!
May 21, 2025: Just look at this majestic librarian. What a creature!