The Eudaimonia Blog

So it’s taken me about a week to recover from a cold as well as jetlag since returning from Germany, but what an amazing trip to Germany I was able to have with my friends Chad and Greg. It’s difficult to summarize all that we experienced together as old friends who were able to talk about everything from faith to life, parenting adult children to sharing about how each of us were working through the loss of our fathers (Greg from 7 years ago, Chad from 1.5 years ago and Mike from over 2.5 years ago). We decided that we needed to try and see one another more often, annually if possible, though we know our annual trips will not be nearly as epic as this one (Greg’s company paid for all expenses on a per diem basis- when it was all said and done, we went over our per diem by a total of $500. Since Greg’s company sponsored the trip, Chad and I split the difference, $250 per person, yup $250 for ten days in Germany, plane tickets, lodging, transportation and eating at wonderful restaurants each day). I’ll try to and post in the coming days on bits and pieces from the trip. The first post will be on some reflections from our day that we spent at the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial just outside of Berlin.