Emerging from the cigarette smog of Germany, please welcome....

First order of business is to apologize for this extremely late post, and hope that I may still have friends who will read this. Internet has been sporadic. Disorientation of the country coupled with vague priorities has generated a lot of air-headed wandering and coffee-drinking. Wandering through the Te Gut drugstore gives me reassurance -- like the reassurance sought by an OCD ape counting cracks in the wall. Reading labels, smelling differently-perfumed air, trying on every pair of kiddie sunglasses -- all comforting. After a while though, enough is enough. What follows are some of my adventures from the past 3 weeks in the Deutschland. Please remember that you're not missing anything.