no, i'm not eating any stallion...

above are a couple of photos taken by abs just down the street from our temporary pad. check it out, it's not raining. we had some requests....so here you go. we like a number of things about living in the city but it is becoming more and more apparent that we will not take-up a permanent residence inside the city. more on that at a later date.
got back late last night from the trip to slovenia (or as they call it, the republic of slovenia). as it turns out, you can drive there in about 4 hours from holzkirchen (my office). you have to cross through the alps in austria, which is a breeze compared to crossing the rockies in colorado. the valleys are quite a bit tamer....although, i suspect you could make the drive as difficult as you wanted if another route was taken. i scoped-out a few good-looking places to ski next year, although it looks like if you were not afraid of a bit of hiking you could shred quite nicely right about now. i was told i was nuts for even mentioning this. at any rate, i was told about a glacier that can be skied year round. hmmmmm....... unfortunately, i did not have my camera as the scenery was spectacular. slovenia was pretty excellent. i spent a day and 1/2 in ljubljana (the capital) and a day in some town i can't pronounce, let alone spell. pretty much in the middle of nowhere and only a few kilometers from croatia in the far eastern part of slovenia. probably the coolest part of the trip was during a tour of one of our facilities, i was shown where the bomb shelter was.....crazy commies thought we might seriously bomb there arses....here is a map for those too lazy to google...
peace to all you socialists out there living in the shadows....