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29 Jul 22: For my meteorologist friends!!\u00a0Dave<\/a>\u00a0and I got to experience a “Brocken Spectre<\/a>” today!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greetings from the top of the Zugspitze, the highest point in Germany (~9700′). At about 1300 local time, so the sun was pretty high, and the cloud was below us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

29 Jul 22: For my meteorologist friends!!\u00a0Dave\u00a0and I got to experience a “Brocken Spectre” today!! Greetings from the top of the Zugspitze, the highest point in Germany (~9700′). At about 1300 local time, so the sun was pretty high, and the cloud was below us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-1vQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5794,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2022\/08\/european-vacation-day-12-good-morning-zugspitze.html","url_meta":{"origin":5818,"position":0},"title":"European Vacation Day 12: Good Morning Zugspitze!","date":"13 August 22","format":false,"excerpt":"The view out our hotel balcony! We keep knocking it out of the park, don't we? 28 Jul 22: Morning view off our balcony. Good morning Zugspitze!!","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5821,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2022\/08\/european-vacation-day-13-zugspitze-the-highest-point-in-germany.html","url_meta":{"origin":5818,"position":1},"title":"European Vacation Day 13: Zugspitze — The Highest Point in Germany","date":"13 August 22","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings from the Top of Germany! 29 July 22: Today we woke up, saw the Zugspitze view off our balcony loud and clear and decided to make the trip up before the clouds enveloped it. It was a bit tricky to do with public transportation but we did it! It\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-258.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5771,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2022\/08\/european-vacation-day-11-edelweiss-lodge-and-resort.html","url_meta":{"origin":5818,"position":2},"title":"European Vacation Day 11: Edelweiss Lodge and Resort","date":"12 August 22","format":false,"excerpt":"27 July 22: We made it to the Edelweiss Lodge and Resort in Garmisch! It's a lodging facility on a U.S. military installation in Germany...and we have been learning at every turn what rights we have as an active duty military retiree (Dave) vs. a government civil servant (me). Today\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-235.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5903,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2022\/08\/european-vacation-by-the-numbers.html","url_meta":{"origin":5818,"position":3},"title":"European Vacation: By the Numbers","date":"20 August 22","format":false,"excerpt":"As promised in the previous post, I calculated the miles flown, driven, railed, and walked during our trip*.*I did not count the shorter Paris Metro, U-Bahn, and local bus rides. Total Miles = 10222 Air miles = 8295 Automobile miles = 516 Rail miles = 1160 Bus miles = 130\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-313.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5820,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions\/5820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}