Berlin

December 21-23, 2019

By Hector Gonzalez

January 19^th, 2020

Berlin was everything we expected it to be: gritty, glamorous, and with google eyes on the doors.

We were of course drawn to the Wall, whose memory still hangs over the city.

Near the Mauerpark was this super cool flea market where we could have spent all day except we couldn't figure out how to get the stuff home afterwards. Someday, though, I'll come and get some vintage decor for my house. But not the Monkey Shines. He can stay there.

We really found this very somber and moving, despite the side jaunt to the junk store. The kids are still fascinated by the wall and what it represented. Even children could make the connection between how this wall is viewed, and how some other walls will be seen in the future. I try to teach them that it is important to always make sure that you are on the right side of morality no matter what anybody else is saying. It doesn't mean that you have to help tear the wall down yourself, but at the very least mae sure you aren't one of the people laying down the bricks to put it up.

I want Julian to record an EDM album, and I want this to be the album cover.

Asa, on the same train, far less noble. But it might still work as an album cover.

Also very moving: Checkpoint Charlie. Though flanking it with a KFC and a McDonald's might be rubbing it in their noses a little. We had lunch at a cafe.