A Final Frolic in the Black Forest
Our final chapter took us through the Black Forest which is found in the southwestern part of Germany. Not sure why it is called the Black Forest but it has tons of hillside towns and towns in the flat areas of the region. Because the land has so much topography, though, there is a lot of the forest that remains unsettled and uncleared, which makes for beautiful foggy mornings where the clouds are sitting among the trees. The last part of our German adventure took us through the Black Forest to a few different towns. Our first stop was Triberg, which is a town that every German we met was kind of looking at us with a blank stare like “why are you going there?” It was a cute little hillside town, reminiscent of Big Bear, with a lot of steep roofs and medieval architecture. But what it is famous for is the worlds largest cuckoo clock and tons of homemade cuckoo clocks. We arrived at our Airbnb in the evening and after dropping off our stuff in ...
