We drove east across the Rhine into
Germany through beautiful rolling hills eventually becoming dark
pine-covered high slopes. We kept seeing these huge square buildings
that appeared to be hotels and/or restaurants, but there were so many
of them! We finally figured out that they were farmhouses with barns
and outbuildings all in one huge building. We could tell the home
from the outbuildings when we looked close because the home portion at pretty
lace curtains in the windows.
We stopped in the touristy town of
Triberg, known as the heart of the Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks. We
shopped about five different stores with hundreds of hand-made clocks
– most traditional, but also some modernized ones that ranged from
under $100 to well over $5,000. Jack decided on one that both of us
liked and had it shipped directly home.
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| Our rural campground |
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| Now that is a Bell! |
We continued south through the Black
Forest to a very small rural campground on the side of a hill. We
kept hearing tinkling bells, but couldn't find the source until we
realized that the cows in the adjacent field all were wearing large
bells around their necks! After that, every time we heard a bell, we
would smile.....
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