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Tanz auf einem Kriegsschiff

Early in the morning again the sun showed us the bright beauty of this Nature reserve. We went for a walk along the shore although we did not have enough time to go to the sand dunes like I did as a child with my parents long time ago. Then we went on the ferry which turned out to be an old boat from WWII which carried tanks and soldiers to the cost of the Normandy on D-day. Incredible how those guys went across the Atlantic with an rather small and open ferryboat to then struggle in one of the most cruel parts of a war which led to the end of the inhuman Nazi terror. But my memory didn’t go back this far! Just to the time when our family did the same enjoyable trip from Orient Point to New London to visit my fathers student friend Lee in Boston. This time we had visited Lee and Lulu just a few days before. The group of teachers and farmers who were on their way …

Charles E. Walter School, Brookhaven / Long Island

Good bye New York

Nach der Messe in einer irischen Kirche verlassen wir Brooklyn und haben dabei mit unserem Wohmobil wieder die gleichen Herausforderungen zu meistern wie beim Hereinfahren: die zu niedrigen Brücken. It was not easy to find the best route as we could not take the parkways being often crossed by bridges with clearance down to 10.6ft. The max height of our Motorhome is 10.8ft! Unfortunately there are only general information signs telling “Only cars” or “No trucks” but no detailed information what the lowest clearance on this Parkway would be. Andreas dirigiert mich durch Brooklyns Staßenlabyrinth und irgendwann sind wir auf dem passenden Highway Richtung Osten nach Long Island. In Jamaica fahren wir direkt unter der Eisenbahn- cool!! Unser erstes Ziel ist das Brookhaven National Laboratory. Das ist ein Forschungszentrum, in dem Andreas’ Vater vor 46 Jahren gearbeitet hat. Damals lebte die Familie Paul (Elisabeth, Helmut, Andreas, Maria; Johannes war noch nicht geboren) ein Jahr lang auf dem Gelände. Wir finden Andreas’ Volksschule die Charles E. Walter Elementary School in Yaphank und ein freundlicher Polizist lässt uns …