Jen and Jerry's Excellent Adventure

 Riga, Latvia                                                                                                   Wednesday, May 25, 2022                Today’s tour was labeled as “Go Local” which is a designation of tours offered fairly rarely to allow any of us who wish to spend time with a local person doing what normal people do in that area.   Today, we walked with a small, retired woman born and raised in Riga who loved ...

 Klaipeda, Lithuania                                                                                     Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Met by this group at the pier (Note a temp change)                Ohmygoodness, we have another guide who is also a teacher!   Sanna is a literature professor who enjoys collecting stories.   She is originally from Sweden, fell in love with a man from Lithuania—a country she had never heard of—“and now I speak a language with my two children, a language I had never...

 Gdansk, Poland                                                                                                     Monday, May 23, 2022                Yesterday was a rare sea day that began with our nondenominational worship service.   I will try to remember to attach my prayers under Stories from Jen.   As I type this a few days later, the TV is informing us of another devastating shooting in an element...

  Warnemunde, Germany                                                               Saturday, May 21, 2022             At yet another mouth “munde” of another river that feeds into the Baltic Sea is another charming town where, today we had signed up for a tour that would drive us outside the resort beach city and into the countryside, but it didn’t leave til afternoon, so we breakfasted, typed, then left the room by 10:30 so our stewards could clean.   Found a map just outside the bus and took off to explore on a cool Saturday morning.    Since it was Saturday, markets were set up and locals were out buying at the ...