Did: Ok here is where the story goes. Randy walks the almost 3 miles across the base, after dropping the truck off, to see if we can keep the room. Anne and Cameron pack up the room, but hope we don't have to leave with no where to go. Randy walks another mile to our room to tell us, no go, no rooms available for the night. The nice maids, tell us that they aren't coming back until after 1pm to clean the room and we can stay until then. Randy tells Anne the three options the Auto Shop gave us. The part is not available for a Ford F250 4x4 pickup truck in Germany. 1) Have a machinist make it 1,000 euro, but only 1 day. 2) Order from German company 800 euro ready in 4 days. 3) Order it from the states $450 USD 7-10 days shipping. We chose to order from the states and rent a car and keep going on the vacation. Randy took 30 days leave and we are at 13. We have time and well, might was well do a vacation we will never forget and never have to do again. We rent a car, in the AFB mall, and head out. The guy in the biergarten last night says we had to do the Rhine River and Randy remember a fairytale about Loreley.
http://loreley-rhine.com/ Lets go. The wagon fits about 1/2 our stuff, we leave the rest behind in the truck. We make it to the Rhine and find a campsite, from our Camping Europe book
http://camping-loreleyblick.de/neu/index.php?lang=english. It is beautiful here. Our campsite is right next to the river, the barges pass by and we can watch them making the treacherous turn at the Loreley Rock and at night the party barges go by. What did we forgot when changing from the truck to the wagon 1) table, we (Randy) have to cook on the ground. 2) Heavy jackets for Randy and Cameron, but we don't need them....yet.
