Over this past summer, my band and I were asked to do a tour of military bases through Armed Forces Entertainment. We were scheduled to play at Baumholder, Manheim, the Edelweiss Lodge and Resort, Grafenwoehr, and Spangdahlem. With only 1 day off. It was pretty much a dream vacation, and I was just looking through some pictures I took the other day. First off, to be able to play for military personnel and their families was a huge honor, and we made so many friends and still keep in touch with many of them. But besides that, it was our first trip to Europe, and we traveled to and from everywhere in a tour bus with the most amazing driver who allowed us to make as many stops in as many places as we wanted.
The architecture, the history, the castles, everything. It was such an amazing experience, and the only down side (if you could call it that) was that we only had one day in every town we stayed in, and with playing a show every night we really only got about 2 hours of sightseeing a day at best. We did, however, have one day in Garmish, and it was easily the most amazing day of vacationing I have ever had. We all got up early to walk into the town, and we shopped, took in the sights, and got an amazing lunch at the coffeeshop. Then we rented bikes from the hotel we were staying at and rode through the Alps. It was nothing short of a dream day.
I hope to go back there again with a couple of weeks to do nothing but sight see. And I will most definitely spend more than 4 months trying to learn German before I go back.
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