Fate will "make" your day

It is quite warm in the morning and the weather forecast is promising for the next couple of days. So after the last tasty breakfast we hit the road on a slow and pensive drive back to our workshop in "Strausberg Nord" (home of all our technical and mobile equipment).

And while we are driving we start to discuss why it is that Polish car drivers seem to be quite schizophrenic - they drive extremely slow while passing the villages (which we find very exemplary) just to go completely nuts at the edge of town passing each other in the worst possible situations. We have the feeling the situation had gotten better during the last 10 years but presently is returning to havoc. Dozens of crosses and name plates on the trees along the long alleys speak a language for themselves.

Just as we enter the region about 10 kilometers away from the Polish/German border cars are coming our way with alarm flashing their high beams. Another couple of hundred meters down the road we come a around a bend...and enter absolut disaster. The road is blocked with warning flares, a woman is screaming in agony and on the right side of the road a car is totally crashed and wrapped around a tree, reduced to about half a meter, the bloody face of the obviously dead driver pressed against a side window.

Another passing maneuver with a dead end.

We are deeply shocked, being unable to contribute anything constructive on site since the emergency crew is already coming our way - and our day ends in deep silence. What an end after such a wonderful time and the awareness is sinking in ever more to live our lives by the moment and not by plans and dreams...

But the day is not over yet. We meet our friends at the workshop in the oldtimer club, start telling stories, unload the Buddha, load our car and drive on to Berlin.

After bringing all our stuff back up to our apartment Anke realizes that she is missing her mobile phone...and after a short break we decide to drive back the 45 Km to the workshop to search for the phone.
Only we have to find out that we can't locate the phone in the Buddha back at the workshop and we drive back home rather frustrated - just to find the phone lying in the kitchen...もっと詳しく