If 2020 was the Summer of Plan H, this is the Summer of Plan C:  Covid, Climate, and Conveyances!  In 2020, Plan A was for me to teach in Verona, Italy, for a month.  Then, Joel was going to join me and we’d hike in the Dolomites and fly up to Norway to hike and kayak.  Covid hit, so instead, we rented a Cruise America RV and spent a month camping up the coast to Washington.  It turned out to be a fantastic trip – and ultimately resulted in my buying a Roadtrek camper van.

This summer, covid changed Astrid’s and my plans to explore Germany together.  When I got to my hotel room in Düsseldorf, I checked email and found out Joel’s and my barge and bike trip on the Mosel and Saar rivers was CANCELED due to low water levels in the Rhine River.  PIVOT!  We booked another trip, leaving a day earlier, in South Holland.  Our first night, we spent on the Amsterdam (the name of our barge) in Amsterdam.

Sunset view from our cabin.