Train ride!

Everyone got to sleep in a little bit before we headed to the train station for our trip to Erfurt.  We got to watch a lot of humanity pass by in the train station before boarding.  Lots of people with dogs, a few crazy people yelling in German, a number of families with babies in awesome strollers.

 I knew from my studies that Germany was far ahead of the US in terms of weening itself off fossil fuels, but the trip through the countryside today reaffirmed that for me.  Entire towns had roofs covered with solar panels (these are in the fields because I cound't get a good shot of the houses).  And over every rise there were wind turbines sitting on the hill tops.

We were enjoying the ride and the pasture lands and woods, then passed through a very long tunnel and came out to this (FOG!) on the other side!