Romantic Road - Day 4 & 5

It was fairly uneventful today. It was so cold and raining that Julie and I stayed in the van under the covers and talked about our future plans past Fussen. It was around 1 or 2 degrees outside and the town we were in was small like many others so we decided it wasn’t worth freezing our butts off for and when we arrive in Fussen, we will have to pay at the Stellplatz so it was an easy decision to just hang out for the day. It was so cold that night that Julie wanted me to start the van to get some heat and I didn’t need any convincing. This is when we had a very ugly situation with fellow campers. It honestly made us think about just heading home. A German couple came out and yelled at us to shut off our van because the van stinks, we tried our best to tell them we were freezing and only needed the van on for another minute or so but they kept saying “not our problem”, it got to the point that he was banging on the van and trying to get in. Luckily the van was locked and the situation didn’t have to escalate. I eventually shut the van off and I suggested to Julie that we try our heater in the van. Up to this point it hasn’t been working for us. It worked in Batchesgaden and Regensburg both places we had electricity for. So we were under the assumption that it only worked when we are hooked up. Despite it being an awful situation, we did learn that our heater does work when we are not hooked up. So we had a warm sleep in a 15 degree van but woke with it being much colder than the night before. Reluctantly (mostly because of the other campers) we decided to head the 50 km to Fussen which brought us through the towns of Peiting, Rottenbuch, Wildsteig, Steingaden, Halbelch, Schwangau (where we got our first glimpse of the famous castles) and finally to our Stellplatz in a gym parking lot in Fussen.