Driving from Paris to Heidelberg

Thursday - 25 Sep

We left around 7:00 am for the return trip back to Frankfurt by way of Heidelberg. We got ahead of most of the traffic and our apartment was on the edge of Paris, so we had an easy commute out of the city. But we encountered intermittent heavy fog for a couple of hours. It made Spencer’s driving job stressful.

We had a brief stop over in KaiserLauten near Spencer’s to grab a bite to each and to look at coo coo clocks. Both the Cooks and Gayle got one. This was a real highlight of the trip.

We arrived in Heidelberg and dropped Spencer at the train station so he could go and pick up his vehicle at the airport. The rest went to the  Church of the Holy Spirit, where Theron’s grandfather had been baptized. Its a marvelous structure, in and out. But they have vendor kiosks all around the perimeter of the building.

There enjoyed being in such an important place in his family history. He and I walked up to the tower, which turned out not to be to the top of the tower. 

We divided into couples, with Jenny and Camille going together. Each couple explored on their own the interesting street that starts in the square by the church and goes about a mile. There are many interesting shops and eateries that are the unique spirit of Heidelberg. 

Spence's M-Wagon

We got back into the van and started to find our way our of the city. For some reason, I ignored the navigation system and just went in the direction that I thought best, which ended up back at the train station. There we found Spencer, who had forgotten his car keys, so had to come back to Heidelberg after going all the way to Frankfurt. It was a miracle that we stumbled upon him at the exact moment he was there and Jenny checked her data to see his text messages from him.

We realized that if we took Spencer back to Frankfurt, that we wouldn’t get back to his area until 10 pm or so. And we would have to leave to go back to Frankfurt at around 2 pm. So we decided to just stay in Frankfurt. Jenny got on the Internet and found us a reasonable place to stay for the night and we were at the hotel around 9:30 pm.