Berlin

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I am going to Berlin to visit my brother Dan.  My feet are healing.  I have been able to walk up to 5 km without problem.  That is a far cry from 25+ kilometers up and down hills with a 25 pound rucksack.  I need to let my blisters continue to heal and to build back some callus.  While in Berlin I will increase my walking.  OK.  Because I may go from museum to museum in a very interesting city, it may seem more like a tourist trip. Hey.  You may as well enjoy the rehabilitation.  

I have been to Berlin once before.  In 2015, I had finished my service in an Ebola treatment unit and I needed to spend 3 weeks SOMEWHERE ELSE before returning to the US.  In the US, I would have had to go into isolation (basically house arrest) for three weeks to make sure no disease manifested itself during an incubation period.  This wasn’t how things worked in Europe.  All that was medically required was to check my temperature twice daily and to contact medical authorities if I developed suspicious symptoms.  Germany and all the other European countries adhered to that protocol.  So I went to Berlin to visit my brother.  I never developed symptoms, I enjoyed myself and returned to the US 3 weeks later.

My brother lives in the old ‘East Berlin’ which livelier and more colorful (and cheaper) than West Berlin.  Still, there are many sights to see and a very efficient city transport network which will take you anywhere in the city. I am currently enjoying a quiet train ride to Berlin which travels, at times, above 180 mph.  We will be there shortly.

I am looking forward to walking again and building up (and seeing stuff)

Buen Camino