Cruisin' with the Chaplain

Cool place – too bad it wasn’t open.
He makes these Garden Gnomes in his “manufactory” – no English spoken hier! We are on the road for hours at a time, crisscrossing the area of Germany known as Thuringia, where Luther studied and taught.
The weather remains cold and rainy, making for exciting driving on the winding mountain roads. Snow flurries are coating the pines in the mountains.
The city of Schmalkalden – the focus of politics during the Reformation.
Wartburg Castle in Eisenach. During the time Luther was protected there he translated the New Testament into German.