Welcome to the history tricks where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

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Hello and welcome to the show.

We have a special treat for you today.

We have just gotten back from Austria and we decided to tell the story of our trip to Austria with the assistance of the 50 friends that came with us.

But before we get to their stories,

just a little, we got there in advance.

A couple of days in advance and did some side quests of our own.

I do like to get places early.

I'm one of those people that just gets off the plane in a foreign country when there's a time

change and just keeps going that day until it's time to go to bed, like regular bedtime.

And that seems to work well for me, so I continued that on this particular trip.

But you and I didn't travel together. We don't always do that and I went through

Frankfurt which was kind of a adventure in and of itself. How so? Well I didn't through passport control. I was kind of rushed through passport control.

I was also traveling by myself, which is not a big deal, but it's kind of nice to have a travel companion

with you.

And so I was just kind of figuring it out.

I got there, I got to Vienna, everything was great.

And we had a really special to me traveler join us on this trip.

I taught Sunday school in Lutheran churches for 20 years and one of my Sunday school students who's now 31 had decided to go on this

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