As part of Saturday’s Pokémon Community Day, I also began my McDonald’s City Challenge for Wiesbaden, Germany. The McDonald’s City Challenge is the attempt to visit all of the McDonald’s Restaurants in the area. Wiesbaden should be an easy one to do—but I must be done before we leave in June, so I’ve got to…
Larvitar Community Day 2023
On Saturday, January 21, 2023, Pokémon Go celebrated the Larvitar Community Day Classic. I had a wonderful day collecting Pokémon and being out and about simply playing Pokémon. The event was from 2-5 PM, and I was downtown from 1pm until about 4pm when I took the bus back home. It was a cold day,…
Running Smoother
As I am running more and more, I have watched the local Germans run through the same routes that I run. They run much smoother than I run. They run smoother. Many times when I run, as well as a lot of runners that I’ve run with through the year, I run in a forced…
EA Sports PGA Tour Coming Soon
This afternoon, the new gameplay trailer for the new EA Sports PGA Tour dropped on YouTube. I’m excited about the game and have been the minute I heard that EA Sports was dipping back into the PGA line of gaming. I played one of the Tiger Woods games when I was deployed on PS2, but…
Humility
Every year, on the day after Thanksgiving, during what has come to be known a Black Friday—somewhere you will see a story about people crashing through the door of a Wal-Mart or other large retailer. Of course, this has something to say about materialism, but it also has much to say about the lack of…
Rain in Germany
Being in Germany has been an experience. Many of these experiences I enjoy as I reflect back on the cities we’ve seen and the people we’ve met. Then there is the rain. It seems as if it has rained over the last two weeks—today being the first day of sunshine, only to be turned back…