Gelsenkirchen, Germany

... and slamming a sledgehammer down our throat." The game played out, the Czechs played dominant soccer, and we headed from seedy Gelsenkirchen with our tails between our legs. We had no place to sleep that night and headed towards Cologne to find Dan's ...

... something like "the sky was a foreboding gray" or "an ill-wind blew." The closest I can come is our journey to the stadium. Gelsenkirchen is a brand new stadium used by one of the NFL Europe teams, and was built (for a reason obscure to me) in a field ...

This is a flash back into my first travel. Your are welcome to look back.

... hadn't had any beer yet, so we remedied that with a couple 99 cent Warsteiners. We walked through the crazy streets of Gelsenkirchen, reveling with all the fans and screaming "USA!" as loud as we could. We grabbed some Doeners and Wursts and continued ...