September 14, Walking to Poland

We left Berlin at around 10:45 and headed south. Since it was a Sunday, and shops are closed in Berlin on Sunday (how nice) there was little traffic on the autobahn and it was smooth sailing all the way. In fact, we didn't get lost once. We made such good time that we stopped Gracie at one of the many rest areas and reprogrammed Lori to take us closer to the Polish border. We didn't want to cross the border until we learned a few Polish words and we figured we could do that in one evening...ha ha!

The town we stopped in was Bas Muskow on a river that separates Germany and Poland. The stellplatze manager couldn't speak a word of English but with various had gestures and my German phrasebook we managed to book ourselves in and pay 10 Euro for the night. He gave me a map and told me where to go for a walk. (I think)

Our walk took us through a beautiful park and then along a riverbank. On the other side of the river was Poland. We crossed a bridge and were suddenly in the midst of an open market in Poland. I went to a kantor and got some Polish currency so that we could buy some chocolate.

We walked back to Germany and continued through the park to visit an enormous estate belonging to one Puckett...a writer, landscape designer, world traveler and a womanizer. Again, very little English was spoken by the guides. They gave us tokens when we went in and we eventually discovered that we had to put them in a machine and turn some knobs. Out came our own personalized love letters from Puckett.

We will drive to Poland tomorrow and plan to stay at a campsite in Worclaw.