Bodenhöf

So, as many of you know, my maiden name is Bodenhoefer. In German, the "oe" would be an "ö." Max noticed that streets were often named after the towns to which they led. Berliner Strasse goes to Berlin, Mainzer Strasse goes to Mainz, etc. He found that there is a town called Bodenhöf, and the streets that goes out either side are Bodenhöfer Strasse. Of course, we had to go. We finally had a day with nothing else to do, so we decided to visit. It's supposed to take about 2 hours from where we live. Max's car needed gas, but we saw that there is a military presence in Heidelburg, which was about halfway there, so we decided to stop there instead of going to one of our bases here, which were all out of a the way.

Yeah, that says Kunsbach was founded in 1289

We have a little magazine that tells us how to program our GPS to get to the bases in Germany. Heidelburg had 4, so I plugged in the one that looked most promising. It didn't give us an actual address, just a street and a zip code. We ended up driving around Heidelburg for a long time trying to find the base. Once we found it, it was only to discover that there aren't any gas facilities in Heidelburg. Crap. Max couldn't remember the code to his gas card, so we couldn't just get cheap gas at an Esso. So, we had to pay full price. Ouch! One good thing, though, I discovered German Dew at the gas station! I have never seen Dew off-base here before, and our German neighbors had never heard of it, so it was quite an exciting find! It is made with real sugar, so it tastes like Throwback.

Anyway, we got back on the road and made it down near Bodenhöf. Pretty much as soon as we got off the freeway, we were in the country. We passed through some of the cutest little towns & villages. We had to make a couple of detours, both because of actual road work and because we didn't always pay attention to what the GPS was telling us. But, we made it. We took pictures with Bodenhöfer Strasse signs, and so satisfied the goals of the trip. It turns out that Bodenhöf is the size of a large farm. We had been thinking about getting lunch at some point, but that wasn't going to happen in Bodenhöf. We found a gas station with a restaurant on the way home, so we ate there. We also got to use our first pay toilets. Woo!

All in all, it was a good day. :)

Emma says - It was lots of fun to see all of the old villages. In Williamsburg, we were excited to see buildings from the 1700's, and these were 500 years older than those!