Travel Writing, Travel Tuesdays, and The Black Forest

Last week I wrote an article about an experience I had when I missed a connecting flight in Rome was stranded there for 24 hours. I don't really consider myself a travel writer, though I have had the privilege of seeing some pretty amazing places in my life. I just wrote the article because it was a memory that was going around my head that day and I decided to share it.

To my surprise, it became my second most upvoted post to date.

I generally write a lot about filmmaking, movies, and art, because they're what I do day after day, but I realize that especially filmmaking is kinda niche and not something most people would be interested in.

So that made me think, maybe I should write about travel more often and engage with a wider group on Steemit. I'm thinking about writing a weekly post and calling it Travel Tuesdays. (Is that cheesy?)

And even though today isn't Tuesday, I thought I'd end this post with a little preview of what Travel Tuesdays will look like, starting with a few pictures from where I currently live, which is on the edge of The Black Forest in Germany. Enjoy!

This is what the Black Forest looks like, although the town where I live is right on the edge, so it's not in the deep woods.

And as you can see, we have some deciduous trees here too, which look very nice in the fall. After living in Malta for three years, I decided I never wanted to live somewhere without trees again. Living in Germany has had its own challenges, but I have to say I'm so grateful every day to be able to go for walks in the forest and take in its comforting smells and sounds.

It's also an agricultural area.

I used to live just downwind of this cow farm. Some days the air was pretty pungent, but I have to say that farms in Germany strike me as being a lot more clean than farms in America. I think it's because they tend to lay concrete in the barnyards here. The cows were always friendly and curious to have visitors.

One thing I love about Germany is the abundance of fruit trees. It seems like a huge percentage of the population have fruit trees in their yards, and you'll often see a line or small cluster of apple, cherry, or plum trees on a ridge or in a field.

That's such a rich heritage, to be able to gather your own food every year. Making jam is a thing most everyone knows how to do here, and folks will often bring their own apples to a professional press and bring home their own juice.

Metalworking is a main industry and there are lots of factories in the area. I really like this view and the way the light catches the steam rising from the chimney. If you're lucky you may see a red train go by in the distance.