In the past few days we have put on a lot of miles, traveling from Zagreb all the way across Slovenia, Austria and Germany to the Black Forest area in the South West corner of Germany. We will spend a few days in this area, catch up with our son Brendon and prepare the truck for 6 months in storage while we go do some other things outside Europe.

There is not much to say about the past few days as it has simply been a matter of driving on motorways and spending a couple of nights with the "truckies" in rest stops.

But we did take the time to do a very small spot of ,it was a quick visit to the Slovenian city of Bled. For those of you that don't, this city is famous for its lake and the island and church in the middle of the lake. Our visit as nothing more that a quick stop, just long enough to drive through the town, find the campground (and use it as a short term parking lot) and take a few photos. The weather was about as encouraging as the duration of our visit, that is to say NOT. But we had to see it as our sons have raved abut the place. Maybe we will be in Slovenia in better weather next time.

It is also worth making a comment about the driving. One of the uncertainties we have faced in traveling in Germany in our "truck" is that we have been told (and read) that Germany does not allow trucks to travel the motorways on Sundays and of course the question for us has been - are we a truck and does this apply to us.

While I am not sure we answered all of those questions but, but yesterday (Sunday) we pretty much crossed the entire country of Germany from east to west and we observed that indeed there were very few trucks on the road (not none mind you just very very few). On the other hand there were literally thousands of them parked in roadside rest areas, gas stations and roadside restaurants. Not only the trucks but their drivers as well, sitting around talking, in their cabs watching satellite TV and some even having meals in the empty cargo areas of their trucks. It was really mind boggling to see all that machinery and man power sitting around doing nothing.

During the course of the day we passed, and were passed by, a number of police cars and did not seem to get a second look. So while it is not proof that we "are allowed on the road on Sunday", it certainly will reduce our anxiety the next time we "get an opportunity" to drive our truck on German highways on Sunday.

Monday morning after spending Sunday night near the town of Freiburg we drove to the village of Bardenweiler in search of a campground we had read about in one of our camping guides and sure enough there it was, and open. We planned to stay here until Friday morning when we are scheduled to drop our vehicle in Gaggenau where it will be stored until we return to Europe next year.

Place was called Feriencamping

The campground turned out to be an immaculate little establishment. The special treat being the showers and toilets which were very clean but more importantly heated, even the floors.