Auf dem Land

11/07/2023

The two year anniversary of the flood is coming up. It is clear that our street will never be the same. If you can understood German, this is an excellent radio broadcast about our street which we contributed to:

https://www.swr.de/swr2/leben-und-gesellschaft/das-ahrtal-zwei-jahre-nach-der-flutkatastrophe-100.html

In the next days we will be thinking about the friends we lost 2 years ago both in body & spirit and the people known & unknown who pulled us up from literally ground zero. ❤️

Sie war vor der Flutkatastrophe eine lebendige Straße an der Ahr. Gaststätten, Tanzlokale, Weinstuben und andere Attraktionen zogen jedes Jahr viele Touristen an. Es gab auch eine aktive Nachbarschaft. Die Flutkatastrophe vor zwei Jahren zerstörte dies alles über Nacht. Die alten Bewohner kämpf...

23/06/2023

It has been awhile, summer update coming soon!

06/01/2023

What is Roger doing these days?
A blog update…

Since September I'm volunteering for the DNR (Department for Natural Resources). I always loved the woods and enjoyed visiting State and National Parks. Now I do have the opportunity to be out in a state forest a couple of days a week. Usually I work two days a week on basically everything which has...

13/11/2022

A long awaited update…
Falling (into a routine)..

Fall is here, and in northern Wisconsin the frost starts around the end of September already. We have had some almost minus Celsius temperatures at night. Roger loves winter and cooler temperatures but is currently in Germany with Clara. I love fall, and the changing leaves it brings, but cannot hel...

23/08/2022

Renovations…

In early July, Clara, Roger, and I all got sick. After two years of escaping, it seems we finally came down with Corona although only one of us tested positive. Roger and Clara got pretty sick and I had a mild case. The lack of energy and cold symptoms set us back on our journey to fix up my family....

14/07/2022

Tomorrow marks one year since the flood which changed so many lives in Ahrtal. Please light a candle 🕯 in honor of all the lives lost in the flood, including two of our neighbors.

It hasn’t been an easy year, but we are here & still fighting. Thanks to everyone who has supported us in both big and small ways in the last year. It would not be possible without each of you🙏

02/07/2022

Our new blog post is up..Grow where you are planted!

We have not posted in a while and that is mostly because it has taken us longer to adjust to our new lives, particularly in finding a place to stay permanently, than we expected. When we prepared to leave our temporary house in Lückenbach, and in the first month in the USA, we knew we would mostly ...

18/05/2022

Our next blog post is online.
This time about one of our favorite things in life. Food!

It took 243 Hours 40 minutes on US soil till we had our first burger. Generally we are eating pretty healthy but we came here a little overweight and wanted to loose weight. Obviously the US cuisine is not known for its low fat, low sugar or low calories but it sure is tasty. We try to eat oatmeal (...

23/04/2022

Above the clouds is hope

Above the clouds there is no worries and endless freedom. That’s a line in a famous German song. Today it is not true. There are a lot of worries about what the future will bring, where we gonna life and what we are doing for work. The only certain thing is that we are together and will be in the ...

08/04/2022

Travel & Transition

We have left Ahrtal fo awhile, looking for new impulses & ideas. Leaving behind the safety of our temporary home was hard but it also opens our minds to the possibility of new things. A long anticipated vacation is our transition between Germany and our time in the USA. Originally we planed to see M...

28/03/2022

Time to say goodbye

The German language has a great word to describe a place you belong. Heimat. The dictionary translates it as home. But Heimat is so much more. It’s a place you feel safe, where your friends are around the corner, where you know everything and everyone. Now it’s time for us to leave our Heimat fo...

19/03/2022

Our time in Lückenbach is coming to an end, thank you to everyone worldwide who has supported us so far in our journey post-flood: Solidarität.

Solidarität: Solidarity is a completely translatable word, yet recently understood a new. Despite what anyone thinks about the ‘Versagen’ of the politics, weather reporters, and emergency response, the solidarity that poured into the Ahrtal immediately after the flood, and still to this day, bl...