After having Lady the Bulli fully re-outfitted for the road the day before, this afternoon, we took a little test cruise, just in the neighbourhood, up through the foothills of the Rhön mountain range. It turned out to be a nice Sunday drive as we approached the Gangolfsberg in the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park for a little hike. We took the path through a forest that was rather remarkably mixed with different types of trees but it equally engrossing for us to watch the people as they stopped to read every second placard that identified the larch, the maple (I call it a "Spitz-a-horn"), the elm and then marvel upwards at the tree, as noted.
Fortunately, we were able to march forward, away from the crowd of tree gawkers and made it ahead of the crowd to see this mountain’s main attraction: basalt geologic formations from the Tertiary Age that projected from the cliff sides like the honeycombs of some prehistoric, saber-toothed bee. It looked just other-worldly and not possible a naturally-occurring thing—or just a rarity of pressure and glacially slow movement, like a cut and polished gemstone.
In our Irish guidebooks, we read of a place called the Giants’ Causeway (
EN/
DE) that is something similarly spectacular and unreal but never made it that far north, yet, though we found out today that that site was not so absolutely unique. The trail around the mountain continued through the forest and plunged further into craggy depths, like the
Teufelskeller. Finding these wonders was a nice local secret to uncover in an afternoon’s work.
Fortunately, we were able to march forward, away from the crowd of tree gawkers and made it ahead of the crowd to see this mountain’s main attraction: basalt geologic formations from the Tertiary Age that projected from the cliff sides like the honeycombs of some prehistoric, saber-toothed bee. It looked just other-worldly and not possible a naturally-occurring thing—or just a rarity of pressure and glacially slow movement, like a cut and polished gemstone. 
In our Irish guidebooks, we read of a place called the Giants’ Causeway (EN/DE) that is something similarly spectacular and unreal but never made it that far north, yet, though we found out today that that site was not so absolutely unique. The trail around the mountain continued through the forest and plunged further into craggy depths, like the Teufelskeller. Finding these wonders was a nice local secret to uncover in an afternoon’s work. 
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