Day Number One

Germany was a little shy at first. But that’s alright, because we weren’t over-friendly at first either. After spending a night in a cramped airplane seat,  Trying to sleep bent over a tray table and somehow find a comfortable position, let’s just say theirs a couple awkward instances with the person beside you throughout the 8 hour  flight.

We were  puked out into this area where we stood, a lil dazed as it was 2:00 American time.

And then me and Jeff had a bit of time finding the rental place. Turns out you had to go underground because it seems like most of the airport is under the surface. We figured this out after walking about 2 miles across roads and over lawns and through parking garages and up stairs.

And as rental company’s usually do, we ended up with something completely different than we had intended but hey, I think in the end it was an upgrade.

We visited this little place for dinner. I don’t know the name of it.

If you asked me why I’ve always wanted to go to this castle, I couldn’t really tell you. It’s something about the way it blends into the mountains, the absolute beauty of it, and then positioned in front of a view that will take your breathe away. Maybe it’s the raw mystery of a king who was depressed, who expressed his feelings in the form of a castle. Maybe that’s why I like it. It’s the type of scene that blends a few different dimensions and emotions. Whatever the case the castle is other worldly. Very surreal. They had just gotten a few feet of snow, making it beautiful, but closed  down most of the trails.

 There was a lot of tracks in the snow behind the barriers though  so we hop gates and crawl up mountainsides to get different angles of the castle.

The climb meant pulling yourself up by saplings rooted into the mountain, so steep we had to crawl on all fours. And on the way down, most of us opted for just sliding down. There was several feet of snow so it actually wasn’t really an option to do anything but sit down and hope for the best as you whistled down the embankments. Which was easy as my air Jordan’s didn’t exactly have a lot of traction. The view during that climb though and for sure at the top of that climb, was worth every bit of snow in my sweats and joggers.

Sadly we weren’t able to go inside the actual structure. We had bought  tickets a month ago but there was a few complications which I won’t try to explain. Kind of disappointing, but still a beautiful piece of design.

Supposedly it was a project that was supposed to take his mind off of losing his political power to Prussia. He was declared mad, and died mysteriously, but I’m not complaining about what he left us.

The place was opened for tourists 7 weeks after He died, he only lived in it for 170 days. Construction was started in the middle of the  1800s, which is relatively new for castles, but in my opinion quite a feat, thinking about how it went from a plan on a piece of paper to this.

The property was built by a king named Ludwig II of Bavaria. And this is the castle he grew up in. It is pretty much  within sight of the one  he made. Both castles were only meant to be vacation homes.

The we bought frozen pizzas and junk food and checked into our little Airbnb under the mountains. Pretty full first day I would say.