In a message dated 10/21/2003 3:49:27 AM Central Daylight Time, bdoerr@rollanet.org writes: > It was Sep-Oct > and we had no lodging or restaurant plans. We always found nice lodging and > the food was great. The weather was awful. Well Bob, we went at the end of Sept. and into Oct. and the weather was tremendous. Couldn't have asked for any better. We did do some sight-seeing, but visited our ancestral towns also. That is why we opted to drive through Germany. Between our week in Austria and the week in Germany, we even made a day and a half trip to Vienna, where we attending Mass and heard the Vienna Boys Choir. Then we took an overnight train to Venice, stayed the day sight-seeing, and then took the night train into Munich. That was a fantastic experience. What towns/villages in Heese are your ancestors from? Lea in KCMO Researching - Ripper, VonderHaar, Cirtautas, Gerst, Blumfelder, Mueller Hoelzer