12 Oct 2022, Back to Schilksee, 54 25.446 N/ 010 10.548 E
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This trip has chased away much of the sadness but not the memories.
A couple of days later, we went on a road trip around the 'neighborhood'. First stop was the Kiel Kanal where we watched sailboats, container ships, and tankers lock and pass through the eastern gates going West. Not far from there is the beautiful Holtenauer lighthouse (ca 1895) guarding the eastern entrance of the Kanal. We walked to the lighthouse later that day and I just sat there and admired. Ann and I have a picture of it in our den.
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I wanted to go to a McDonalds to compare my last German experience with this one. Nice clean place with good McDoubles and coffee. On the way there, we took a waterless ferry across the Kanal. It is suspended under a large bridge that crosses the Kanal. And it's free too. But it is small and the ships in the Kanal have the right of way. We drove to Eckernfürde to check out the town. They changed the color of one of the lighthouses to show their solidarity with Ukraine. Ann and I were here with Wolfgang and Denise one Christmas season. There's a lot more people in the Summer. Beautiful town! Later, we took a ferry from Schilksee to the Kieler inner harbor. We stopped at many places, including Laboe, a town on the eastern shore of the outer harbor. It is near one of my favorite villages, Heikendorf. After all of this, we headed back to the garden for a farewell barbecue. Great two weeks! Hope we can do it again sometime. Tomorrow, I hop on a plane and go back to the Chesapeake to see family and the Jule III.
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