Note: I drafted this post in 2012 but obviously I never finished it and I definitely never published it. In 2025, when Typepad shut down and I moved these posts to a new domain, I discovered this old post sitting here drafted. I am publishing it now as-is (backdated to 2012) to capture what I wrote, in this case just some notes about what I’d done on a relatively quick trip to Germany, intending to flesh it out. Here I go, pushing the publish button …
My grandmother Ilse “Omi” Conrad passed away last month; I wrote about her here last month. I was the closest to her of all the American children, having lived with her for a full year as a teenager, so I decided to go to Germany for the funeral and represent the US wing of the family.
Movies watched on flight over:
Ides Of March
Mystic River
Tower Heist
Louis CK: Shameless
Sun morning: Frankfurt arrival
Sun / Mon / Tue: Mainz and Hechtsheim?
Tue afternoon/evening: train to Stuttgart
Wed afternoon/evening: train to Heidelberg
Fri morning: travel with Susann et al to Annweiler
Fri evening: travel with Gisela et al back to Hechtsheim
Sat morning: Frankfurt departure
Movies watched on flight back:
Gran Torino
True Grit (first 30 minutes)