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Here's a little story for you guys. A situation that weirded me out quite a bit.
So as some of you might have seen in the recent thread I posted in this sub, my girlfriend and I were away for the weekend visiting the Belgian Ardennes, Luxemburg and a small part of Germany.
On our last day in Germany we went for a hike in the area of Losheim and Britten. We were about to follow an 8km trail through the wooded hill area known as the southern Eifel region in the Saar Valley. So we're hiking this trail, but it was the short 8km version and we were following a GPS route on our smartphone. The thing with those things instead of a map is that they aren't super accurate. Long story short, where we should have turned left we turned right. The paths seemed to go parallel for quite a while but then they diverged quite a bit.
I decided to go off trail and just move straight towards the path we should be following, of which we had departed now for some 1km.
All fun and games, crossing a small creek, climbing a bit here and there. I really enjoyed it to be honest, but my girlfriend did not like it as much. At all. Things got worse, well, mostly awkward.
Anyway, we were almost on the trail again but were moving through some rougher terrain that slowed us down. All of a sudden the terrain was flat again and there were an awful lot of rocks everywhere. They really stood out in the forest that surrounded us. They also seemed to be arranged in little towers here and there or some man made shapes. A heart, a circle,... Anyway, back on the trail the path opened up to a big wooden chapel in the middle of the forest with an information board next to it. So the board explained that the area we just waded through was a concept called 'Ruheforst' where dead people are burned and their ashes placed in a container that will dissolve underground after a while. There are already hundreds of people buried there and the place they are buried is marked with those stones and young trees. Was a pretty damn awkward experience.
Needless to say, my girlfriend would have preferred to stay on the right path in the first place instead of moving in between graves in a forest.
So as some of you might have seen in the recent thread I posted in this sub, my girlfriend and I were away for the weekend visiting the Belgian Ardennes, Luxemburg and a small part of Germany.
On our last day in Germany we went for a hike in the area of Losheim and Britten. We were about to follow an 8km trail through the wooded hill area known as the southern Eifel region in the Saar Valley. So we're hiking this trail, but it was the short 8km version and we were following a GPS route on our smartphone. The thing with those things instead of a map is that they aren't super accurate. Long story short, where we should have turned left we turned right. The paths seemed to go parallel for quite a while but then they diverged quite a bit.
I decided to go off trail and just move straight towards the path we should be following, of which we had departed now for some 1km.
All fun and games, crossing a small creek, climbing a bit here and there. I really enjoyed it to be honest, but my girlfriend did not like it as much. At all. Things got worse, well, mostly awkward.
Anyway, we were almost on the trail again but were moving through some rougher terrain that slowed us down. All of a sudden the terrain was flat again and there were an awful lot of rocks everywhere. They really stood out in the forest that surrounded us. They also seemed to be arranged in little towers here and there or some man made shapes. A heart, a circle,... Anyway, back on the trail the path opened up to a big wooden chapel in the middle of the forest with an information board next to it. So the board explained that the area we just waded through was a concept called 'Ruheforst' where dead people are burned and their ashes placed in a container that will dissolve underground after a while. There are already hundreds of people buried there and the place they are buried is marked with those stones and young trees. Was a pretty damn awkward experience.
Needless to say, my girlfriend would have preferred to stay on the right path in the first place instead of moving in between graves in a forest.
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I was probably going at least 60. Damm bird hit my mirror just right so the folding mirror didn't fold it knocked it right off instead 
Being pissed I just kept going for a bit than pulled over to turn around and head back so I could tape my mirror back on and get that Turkey 
This was covered under comprehensive so if fails I'll get a new mirror 
