Conversations that are going places
"Did you know that Charlemagne is buried in Aachen?" Randy asked me one day several months ago. He had walked into the living room, posed this question, and then walked back to his desk where he had read a mention of it in the book Monuments Men.
I was curious why he mentioned this. I suspected he was thinking about his next business trip to Europe. He was due for another round of visits, though when was yet to be determined. The last two times he combined several European visits into one trip, we accompanied him.
The conversation grew from just talking about Aachen (which wouldn't be near any of his meetings, but rather partway between at least two of them), to other places which sounded interesting, to hammering out the schedule with his European contacts.
Finally, he was able to secure enough meeting commitments to make it a two-to-three week trip. We would begin in Krakow on 14 October and end in Euskirchen, Germany, on 4 November. It was incredible and exhausting. I've only begun organizing the thousands of digital pictures while working my way though fifty kilos of laundry.
But we did make it to Aachen, and saw Karlsschrein, there in the rear of the choir area and on the right in the picture below. The larger gold reliquary in this same picture is the Marienschrein
There will be more posts, of course, to come.
I was curious why he mentioned this. I suspected he was thinking about his next business trip to Europe. He was due for another round of visits, though when was yet to be determined. The last two times he combined several European visits into one trip, we accompanied him.
The conversation grew from just talking about Aachen (which wouldn't be near any of his meetings, but rather partway between at least two of them), to other places which sounded interesting, to hammering out the schedule with his European contacts.
Finally, he was able to secure enough meeting commitments to make it a two-to-three week trip. We would begin in Krakow on 14 October and end in Euskirchen, Germany, on 4 November. It was incredible and exhausting. I've only begun organizing the thousands of digital pictures while working my way though fifty kilos of laundry.
But we did make it to Aachen, and saw Karlsschrein, there in the rear of the choir area and on the right in the picture below. The larger gold reliquary in this same picture is the Marienschrein
There will be more posts, of course, to come.
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