Wolfratshausen/Munich DAY 4

The next morning we felt great, so we got ourselves ready and made our way into the shop to see what they had to offer us and to buy some propane. We found a dehumidifier for pretty cheap, as we find our van gets pretty wet now with the colder weather. They had other stuff too, but all too expensive or not really needed. We were about to head out to Batchesgaden when a guy approached me, asking if I was from Canada. You see, most people look at the license plate and very rarely look at the flag in the front window, but since he was traveling similarly to us, he knew to look elsewhere. It turns out he bought his rig from a company in England that provided about the same services ours did in the Netherlands. So we all started talking, he and his wife (John and Linda) are from Sydney, Australia. They had been traveling for about 2 weeks longer than us and were planning on staying in Europe for the year too. Since they had started their travels though, their rig keeps breaking on them. They were at the Servo to see about getting their shower cord lengthened, as it could only move about a foot. They didn’t have any luck getting it extended. They also told us that they were broken into while they were in the van, they had mistakenly left their backpack on the front seat and someone through a rock threw the front window – a smash and grab. We stood and talked in the parking lot for about 5 hours or so, before we decided to break for dinner and meet up later. Oddly, Julie and I both got a tan that day.