Autumn is my favorite season too. for some reason Fall evokes memory feelings in much the same was as certain perfumes can evoke. i can’t describe it but happens. Carbondale looks beautiful. i’ve been to Oktoberfest in Munich. was quite a time. i’ve hiked in the Austrian, German and Italian Alps maybe 25 times. you always remember your first. mine was the top of Barenkopf which means Bear Head. the elevation was a little over 11,000 feet. i’ve been to the tops of higher Alps mountains. there’s nothing like the air that high. in fact my profile pic is of me atop one Alp mountain. I hope you have a great time.

beautiful photos. Corey looks like a great guy. he’s got a great and warm smile.  

oh, and i love watching football on Fall Sundays. da da dah. da da dah. 

@BoulderChristina - you can tell from the photos he’s quick with a laugh or a hug.

i love Munich. i lived there for a year and have returned many times, usually for 6 weeks at a time. i’ve great friends there. they took me to soccer games, the Alps of course and other great places and many biergartens. one friend drove two hours each way just so i could drink “the best dark bier in Bavaria” at a monastery. my wife at the time was a beautiful Bavarian woman, a runway model fluent in 8 languages with a PhD in international politics. i told that to a woman i worked with in NY and she said, “That is just not fair” haha. my wife loved sunbathing in and area of Munich’s Central Park behind the university where nude sunbathing was permitted. so one day i’m there with her and when in Rome…. there’s an eisbach, a stream that that breaks off from the Isar River that runs through the area. it’s swift enough that if you swim against the water’s movement you stay in the same place, that day i jumped in the stream to cool of as everyone does. instead of standing or swimming against the tide i decided to float on my back. it was beautiful watching the trees overhead go by. i floated downstream for a few minutes before getting hit by a holy shit moment. it dawned on me i’d floated far away from the nude sunbathing area. i got out of the water and sure enough i was a naked man in a park of people fully clothed on their lunch hour. omg that was embarrassing. i high-tailed it back trying to use every tree and bush for cover. i’m sure people surmised what had happened but i was never so happy as when i finally spotted naked people ahead that day. 

sorry he’s a lousy football watcher. none of us is perfect. 

@BoulderChristina - my German is enough to get me by. not fluent though. she preferred speaking to me in English. her English was better than mine haha. literally…she was senior editor and later Director for an English publication in the U.S. Princeton University offered her a teaching position but the money was less and i would have had to find a new job in the area.

most Germans are happy to speak English so you’d be fine. if you really want to learn there is some awesome and fun software available. you’d be speaking not too shabby German in a month and possibly be fluent in 6.

i’m glad i made you laugh coffee out of your nose. here’s another story from the same park. it was one of my first times there. my wife and i planned to meet. i arrived early. two stunning girls approached me wearing nothing but big smiles. my German then was about as minimal as could be. i stood there in jeans and a shirt and they were smiling at me totally naked. one asked, “Hast du feuer?” i knew she was asking me if i had fire but i couldn’t believe my ears so i asked back, “Bitte” which among other things means “Could you repeat that please.” She did. there was a moment of silence, me standing there looking stunned and them smiling at me. then they obviously realized and one asked if i spoke German. i told them i was an American and spoke very little German. they both giggled. the one then asked in English, “Do you have a match?” and showed me the unlit cigarette in her hand. that’s the day i learned in a way i will never forget how to ask for a light in German. language classes in school could never match that. 

@BoulderChristina - i didn’t have a match. there was another time when a woman i dined with said in German we should get together again when i have “lust”. she too laughed after i repeated the word questioningly and she realized i didn’t know lust in German means “time”. i should just shoot myself. 

@BoulderChristina - *batting my eyelashes* haha