Vienna

Had a nice, long talk with Bryan tonight. He is in Vienna after recently leaving Krakow. Said you could spend a week in Vienna, there's so much to see and do. On Wednesday, he went to Auschwitz, which he said was difficult to describe. He explained what he saw and how  he walked the route of others from the train depot to the gas chambers - a direct route. Horrifying and stunning. And hard to believe it all occurred so recently, when so much of what you see in Europe is hundreds if not thousands of years old, and this was just two generations before him.

He is not finished with eastern Europe but may take a western jaunt to Luxembourg to meet up with his college roommate, Nick, for a few days. Then he plans to rail back across the continent to see parts of Hungary, and the former Yugoslavia countries. But no set plan.

Bryan sent Carolyn a text today: 

"At a bar in Vienna I thought this was your name at first look."

Kind of freaky because is does look like Carolyn's handwriting!

It was so good to hear Bryan's voice. He sounds content. He is enjoying his gadabout. Two & a half weeks into it he has figured out the best way to do things - from meeting people to doing laundry.