{"id":1428,"date":"2016-05-26T01:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T08:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/daykev10\/?p=252"},"modified":"2016-05-26T01:47:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T08:47:44","slug":"like-kings-in-kaiserslautern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/like-kings-in-kaiserslautern\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Kings in Kaiserslautern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my brief stint in the D\u00fcsseldorf area, my next stop was Kaiserslautern where I would meet up with our old friend David Hollifield. On my way there I managed to catch a train along the Rhine River. Along it there were many precariously placed yet beautiful called on the tops of hillsides above the river. These were similar to the ones seen from the trai we caught to Prague, however, there were much more here. After I got off in Bungen and caught a transfer train, the surrounding area quickly turned to a rural landscape. For miles and miles, or rather kilometers and kilometers, there was very little other than trees and fields. There were large forests here as well, not just the small patches in between fields. After all, this was the northern tip of what could still be considers the Black Forest, of which we have all heard so much about.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/05\/image-33-300x225-300x225.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Like Kings in Kaiserslautern\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After seeing beautiful fields and trees, the landscape quickly and suddenly changed to buildings and concrete. Before I knew it I had suddenly entered into the city of Kaiserslautern, population 100k. This small town was quite isolated from the rest of Germany, I have spoken with multiple people since. Most Americans have never heard of it. Many Germans had not heard of it either, but no one had ever been there. And here I was.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/05\/image-35-e1463952199778-225x300-225x300.jpeg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Like Kings in Kaiserslautern\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David and his wife, Mary Kay picked me up from the train station, we hugged it out and we were on our way. David lived actually a 20 minutes drive outside the city. During the drive he told me the this area was dominated by one of the largest US military bases in Europe. This made sense given David&#8217;s military history. He and his wife had been here a few years earlier, and they loved it so they decided to move here. Their place outside the city was only temporary. In only a week they would be moving into their new house in the city, which they were excited for, given the horrible traffic the area they were in was known for.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/05\/image-34-300x225-300x225.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Like Kings in Kaiserslautern\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When we arrived, I was delighted by just how far into the country we were. This was definitely rural Germany. There may have been small 1000 person villages every once in awhile, but there were fields everywhere. Their temp. place and an awesome patio\/deck which had an amazing view of the nearby landscape. It was still flat here, but there were more hills than Hamburg and Berlin, that&#8217;s for sure. I claimed the sofa as my sleeping spot for the night and enjoyed the next couple days catching up with David and exploring this hidden gem of Germany.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/05\/image-36-300x225-300x225.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Like Kings in Kaiserslautern\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my brief stint in the D&uuml;sseldorf area, my next stop was Kaiserslautern where I would meet up with our old friend David Hollifield. On my way there I managed to catch a train along the Rhine River. Along it there were many precariously placed yet beautiful called on the tops of hillsides above the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"geo":{"latitude":49.4458084,"longitude":7.7584076,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}