Day 7 – 18 km 166km

which equals 100 miles or 4 marathons. Not bad what the bald eagle and I have achieved!

Like Gary I am not thinking about anything in specific when walking but am never bored. However, I have been trying to focus my mind on a subject and I must admit that I have not gotten very far. I am musing about the analogy between what we are doing and achieving goals in business and life. So far I have only come to one important conclusion: However far Gary and I manage to walk every day, we celebrate every step we have done. I know that I and many people (female trait?) celebrate or even acknowledge their own progress way too little and beat themselves up way to much. This brings me to the subject of moving goal posts which I am a specialist in. So my second conclusion is: DON'T move the goal post until you have achieved the original goal and acknowledged it and bought yourself *a big fat chocolate cake* (insert own favourite *here*).

This morning we left Beerfurt and ended up at a delightful Naturfreundehaus which is a kind of a Youth hostel for grown ups. Gary being British had of course other ideas about the Nature in Naturfreundehaus. I let him explain:

What can I say, fellow Brits of a certain age? Imagine “Carry on Camping”, imagine “Return of the Pink Panther” where Inspector Clouseau's embarrassment was shielded only by a well positioned guitar? We are next to a mixed table of sixty-somethings and I sense it is just a matter of time before they decide to pursue “Natur”. I think I will have to get myself one of those “pouch” things – not because I have anything to hide, of course, but because it is simply not British!