Camino Imperii 2024

Day 14: From Berlin to Rochester Date Jan 16, 2024 ( Tuesday )   Total This Camino: 103 miles. Total 2024 Caminos: 103 miles Total All Caminos: 2103 miles Total Lodging: $ 801 Planes: $ 1300 Total Planes / Travel Insurance: $ 1470 Buses / Trains / Taxis: $ 5 Total Buses / Trains / Taxis: $ 189 5 Food: $ 10 Total Food: $ 397 10 Meaningful Moment Leaving Martha's behind. Had four good nights here. Good staff. Good room. Good location. The S9 rapid transit train arrives 2 minutes to take me to Berlin's Templehof airport.  This vacation is coming to an end. Random Thought of the Day Added up my foreign transaction fees: approx $80. On the Road / Notable memories 4:15 a.m. Awake 4:45 a.m. Leave Martas Gästehäuse. 5:00 a.m. Quiet, peaceful lovely walk to the Hauptbahnhof ( main train station ) 5:25 a.m. Train arrives. 6:15 a.m. Arrive Templehof Berlin airport. 6:30 a m. United lines open. 6:45 a.m.   Baggage drop completed. 7:15 a.m. Through security checkpoint an...

Day 13: Berlin Date Jan 15, 2024 ( Monday )   Total This Camino: 103 miles. Total 2024 Caminos: 103 miles Total All Caminos: 2103 miles Lodging: Martas Gästehaus @ $ 75 Total Lodging: $ 801 Planes: $ 1300 Total Planes / Travel Insurance: $ 1470 Buses / Trains / Taxis: $ 13 Total Buses / Trains / Taxis: $ 189 Food: $42 Total Food: $ 397 Weather: it was cold today, and in the middle of the tour we actually had a pretty good, pretty heavy snowfall for about half an hour. Meaningful Moment Finding the store that my godson really likes in some completely different part of Berlin than where I've been. And doing business in German in order to get him a book that he wanted from the store. Berliner Zinnfiguren Knesebaeckstrasse Ernst-Reuter Platz ( U2 Subway line ) Random Thought of the Day Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.  Just checked the train schedule to the airport.  I have to get up at 4:30 in the morning on Tuesday.  Catch the 5:20 a.m. S9 train f...

Day 12: From Krostitz to Berlin Date Jan 14, 2024 ( Sunday )   Total This Camino: 103 miles. Total 2024 Caminos: 103 miles Total All Caminos: 2103 miles Lodging: Martas Gästehaus @ $ 75 Total Lodging: $ 726 Planes: $ 1300 Total Planes / Travel Insurance: $ 1470 Buses / Trains / Taxis: $73 Total Buses / Trains / Taxis: $ 176 Food: $ 25 Total Food: $ 355 Meaningful Moment On the way back to Berlin.  I'm in the Leipzig train station and I'm starting to have an emotional moment, realizing how much I've done over the past 12 days. Lots of hiking, lot of using the transportation system, never using English in the restaurants, walking through cities and suburbs and towns and villages and hamlets and fields and farms and forest. Several days ago I was here in Leipzig visiting the  church that  played an important part in the fall of the Warsaw pact and the Soviet Empire. Although I haven't hiked the entirety of the former German Democra...

Day 11: From Bad Düben  to Krostitz Date Jan 13, 2024 ( Saturday ) Today's Distance:  14 miles / 23 km Route and Stats Route Video Total This Camino: 103 miles. Total 2024 Caminos: 103 miles Total All Caminos: 2103 miles Lodging: St Laurentius Kirche @ $15 Total Lodging: $ 651 Planes: $ 1300 Total Planes / Travel Insurance: $ 1470 Buses / Trains / Taxis: $ Total Buses / Trains / Taxis: $ 103 Food: $ 13 Total Food: $ 330 Weather:  Temperature was in the mid thirties. But the wind out of the south was relentless and probably made the actual wind chill temperature more like the high 20s. Meaningful Moment Just checked the weather for tomorrow. Rain and snow in high probabilities, with very high probabilities of precipitation overnight. I think that's it. It's time to call it quits. There's an 8:50 a.m. bus from Krostitz that will get me to the Leipzig train station, from which I can catch a train to the Berlin train station. I've g...