Stateside Adventures, Hunt Style

At the beginning our journey, the bottom of the water bottle took a turn for the worse. Thus, we revolutionized the way of enjoying a good bottle of water. During the discovery process, the car and myself got a bit wet. Okay, I have deciphered all the castles we were able to capture. There are a total of 18 castles along the stretch of the Rhein we travelled, and I think we were able to get pictures of at least half. We did this all in a day, so we only visited two. The first one, Schloss Stolzenfels, had the most beautiful path leading to the top. Most of the castle pictures were taken, unfortunately, from the comfort of our car, but everywhere you looked, another castle. Burg Maus and Burg Katz are opposing castles, but on the same side of the river. Get it, cat - mouse.(chuckle) The Die Pfalz was built in the middle of the Rhein river, on a tiny island, to collect tolls on passing boats. Greedy, greedy, greedy. The other castle that was graced with our presence was Burg Sooneck. I loved this one. The courtyard was covered in roses. It was absolutely beautiful and smelled so good. Perfect place for a wedding. We ended our trip at Kloster Eberbach. A lovely monastery that makes superb wine. After sampling around 8 wines we settled on a few 2007 Steinberger Riesling Spatlese. Ohhh, so far the best wine ever. I have learned that sweet/rieslings are my preferred wine. Dry wines...yeah, no. Not for me. Finally, Vaako was so happy to see us back home, he celebrated with wine, too. Okay it was the wine bag, but he had fun.