Friday

We traveled down to Weilheim and Gurtweil by the Swiss border in the Waldshut area. Undocumented information we have received is that Peter Steimle returned here after the Franco-Prussian war. That he was married here. The key is that they were married by a Baptist minister. The Baptist faith was strong in Switzerland in the Basel, Bern and Zurich area but not in Germany. Although we found nothing for the family history we did run into a festival in Gutrweil given for the handicapped. Along with games, a spook alley and such was a train ride around the gardens.

We drove to the resort city of Titisee, a mountain lake in the center of the Black Forest. Of course we got our first major rain storm forcing us out of sight seeing mode and into taking refuge in the many shops. We darted from store to store accumulating bags of gifts.

We then drove to Freiberg by the French border. They had a very long tunnel that turned into a one open sided tunnel in our direction only for the last several miles.

Returning to our hotel, we needed to cross the Black Forest crosswise from west to east passing beautiful landscapes, encountering road closures and detours due to construction and thus finding ourselves on small country roads.