Photographed in Kremnica, Slovakia, a mere 2,325 km away from Jerusalem.
There is actually a hamlet called Jeruzalem in Slovakia, between Jablonka and Krajné, but the arrow clearly points in the direction of the Holy Land.
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The Happy Hermit 
Checking in to see if you posted anything new, Andreas, and I see that you haven’t.
What’s going on in your life and where are you now? It’s the Fourth of July here in America, which reminds me of a song written by a dead poet who reminds me of you and your vagabond lifestyle. Give the song a listen and tell me what you think. https://youtu.be/c5RWve3yD1o
Writing my articles in two languages has been taking quite a toll on my time, and I have recently focused on writing in German on my German blog http://www.andreas-moser.blog .
I still strive to translate some articles into English from time to time, but I won’t be able to do this for all of them.
(Maybe this will change if I ever live in an English-speaking country again, where I often write the first version in English. But currently, I am trying to settle down in Germany for a few years, because I want to focus on university and on writing. For me, both has been hard with the constant moving.)
I know that online translation is not the best option, but you may want to try to read articles from my German blog using DeepL or a similar tool. (Although a great many linguistic puns will get lost. But then, that also happens in my own translations from German to English.)
Andreas, I got your new postcard. Thank you very much. It is fun getting a postcard from clear across the world. Did you get the two that I sent to you from Arizona?
Hello Mark,
YES, I got your two postcards and was very excited about them! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
It was great to move into the new apartment and find the cowboy card as the first item in my mailbox, and then the beautiful Arizona landscape a few days later.
I hope you will soon get another postcard from Europe. ;-)
I LOVE your German blog, Andreas. The English translation was fine with me. Who cares about puns anyway except for the man making one! I just donated again for your travel fund, although it sounds like you’ll be staying put for a while. Did you move back in with your parents like you suggested in your TEDx Talk on YouTube?
Looking at all the beautiful photos of Germany and reading your history of the German army in World War II, reminded me of a wonderful old friend of ours who lived through all of it and was such a beautiful soul. I wrote about her after she had died at age 85 or so and then I put what I’d written into a chapter of a book that I’m writing that’s based on a real-life case that I prosecuted once that I’ve turned into a work of fiction . . . but the chapter about Ruth is all true, except that I changed her last name. Maybe you’ll enjoy meeting our Tante Ruth. https://thehappynarcissist.wpcomstaging.com/2022/09/15/the-last-confession-chapter-twenty-eight-tante-ruth/
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I am actually still going to travel, I just want a base from where I do that, instead of living out of the backpack.
I moved back to my parents when I returned to Germany at the outset of the Covid pandemic in 2020, but in my family’s case, that’s really only an option in emergencies and for short times.
(It’s a little village with absolutely nothing to do, and I don’t really get along with my parents.)
I didn’t really think that you were back living with your parents, although I did at least two more times after I’d moved out at 18 and then came back at 20 when I returned to college and then again with a wife and two children for law school at 30! Living with one’s parents as an adult is always a challenge but not as hard as living without them when they are gone. In our minds, we edit out the tough stuff and keep only the loving memories. I hope that you have some of those. “Stay gold, Ponyboy!”
I’m taking a sabbatical for various reasons from my too much time-consuming blog that I hope to return to someday to finish the books that I’ve started there and left in different stages of completion, but I’m now writing “Lousy Haiku” to practice concise thinking and writing and also to just express myself so that I don’t suddenly explode. LOL! https://lousyhaiku.blog/