I've been to Heidelberg, Münzenberg, Eltz, and Wartburg. All are spectacular, and I agree with each being on the list. Have you been to Braunfels in Hesse? They have a beautiful castle/palace overlooking the small town of the same name. Both the town and the palace are something of a hidden gem.

Great list, love it! We went by the Marksburg on a Rhine cruise, now I need to see inside. The Moselle River Valley and castles look fantastic. I'd put Schloß Wernigerode on the list, somewhere in the bottom half, but we haven't been to most on your list.

Schloss Harburg is a nicely preserved large castle with a good tour!

Schloss Harburg us a great one to visit.

We love finding new castles in Germany. What are your favorite castles? Leave a comment and let us know!

i read some historyof some villages near here where the antisematism is mentioned. and catholic history.

In Eatonville near the little Michelle falls there was a massacre involving the upper nisqually tribe

A great reminder that preserving history takes desire, effort, and money.

Great video!

I enjoy all of your adventures. So much history and places I had no idea about. Hi thora! Thanks crew for another fun video.

Well...if the context is that things were thrown away and the ocean washes things back up, I'd rather the sherds were gathered and preserved as art, when it comes to modern historical era finds. Finding WWII era crockery sherds is very common at Fort Flagler. The folks at the museum told me about that and they pretty much encourage people to look for the sherds when beachcombing. It was apparently fairly common for the base to throw stuff away in the sound! Native American sites and finds are a different thing!! I love spending time on Vashon! I took an out of state friend one time and we were walking the beach at Pt Robinson and a resident orca surfaced just off the beach...I mean it was just BARELY in enough water to be swimming. Absolutely incredible! I haven't been able to visit when the museum is open but I would be very curious what it has to say about Japanese Americans. I find the Strawberry Festival on Vashon to be a very avoidable annual event since most of the strawberry farmers in the 40s on the island were Japanese Americans who were all interred by the US government. I hope you had a good lunch while there! I always enjoy lunch at The Hardware store (a restaurant, but can you guess the history of the building? lol) If you like coconut, and are lucky enough to be there a day when they have their from-scratch coconut pie, it's like a religious experience 😊 Vashon is chock full of quirky stuff...great place to spend time.

We really loved visiting Vashon-Maury Islands. If you have been there, plan on going, or find Puget Sound history interesting, please leave a comment and let us know.

Pretty cool! We're not sure yet what we'll do in Seattle, but how long is the ferry from downtown to Vashon?

Erin, hiking poles will change your life! LOL without mine I'd be falling a lot more than I already do. Where is this?

Love this! I have been looking for local history!

Have you been to the states first territorial prison in Bucoda Washington? not much left except the foundation.

The main post area is now a neighborhood and the barracks and hospital have been removed. Some of the WWII barracks which you visited are what remain.

Old mills and industrial sites are so interesting. They capture a bygone era. Was the mill pound created or a natural lake?

Does using driving apps like Waze and other app help you with speed limit?

An interesting part of history, very sad about the Japanese though.

Munich and Austria was lovely

Hi guys, your video was sooo helpful when I drove a rental car in Germany last week. Thank you for making my trip enjoyable and safe 😊

Finally catching up on episodes. Yay. Another great one. Had no idea there was coastal artillery for so long. Thought they were all installed during WW2. I visited a battery in Hawaii and thought it was interesting. Fascinating history. Hi Thora!

METRIC in europe. No Miles and inches and feets and yards and all that nonesense. Kilometers ! XD

My hometown! :D Fantastic video mate!

This type of information makes my kayaking trips all the more interesting.

Interesting! I've been to others (like Flagler and Worden) but not this one. I do really like the nice shady walk parts of this! Good for a warmer summer day's visit. I have to remember to take a lantern the next time I visit a battery, but I agree, that one looked worthy of a Stephen King novel! I made it to Layser Cave and Mt. St. Helens last weekend. It was too warm a day for MSH, but I looped through Packwood coming home. Be sure to look for the ice cream sign and stop at the Airstream Ice Cream food truck if you go through Packwood (their peanut butter sauce is divine!). Thanks for all the google aerials....helps with the location orientation.

my first memories are of growing up in the upper officers quarters at Fort Ward in the 60's and eventually going to keg parties at the bigger fort called "Francis Nash" (thats what it was called back then) and climbing the radio tower while in high school in the 80s it amazes me that no drunk high school kids fell off and got killed !

I guess the rocket age made fixed artillery emplacements like Fort Ward obsolete.

We had no idea there was an old Army fort on Bainbridge. It was pretty cool to see the old fort buildings intermixed with everyone's houses. Let us know your thoughts on Fort Ward.

Rafters are exposed so air could circulate

It was originally a spring…. That’s why the air is cool.

Amazing! Loved everything about this episode. The trolls are going on my bucket list. Thanks for taking us along. I may have missed it. How long did it take the artist to make these? Hi Thora!

Correction . Mano is a daughter who grinds corn. Mano means daughter in Hopi

I really enjoyed your walk around downtown. I live in Southern California and every year or so I fly to Seattle, take light rail to King Street Station and catch Amtrak to Centralia where I usually stay at the Olympic Club although I’ve stayed at the Centralia Square Ballroom a couple of times too. I wander around for a few days and catch Amtrak back to the LA area. It is a lovely and relaxing place to visit.

Since you dont know what you are talking about, you have no right to be a guide! Before you have the gall to make another video, we suggest you do tons of research about Pueblo life and practices and beliefs, especially about Kivas! Then possibly you wont be laughed off the page as you are being done now! So shut up and go home!

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What a great couple of daytrips this will be! I saw info on the trolls awhile back, but Imkind of forgot about them so this is a great reminder of what I'm missing out on! I'll definite be holding off on the Portland troll until the weather cools some! Thanks for the tip on looking for the birdhouses 😊

Just found your channel and enjoying your videos! I'm out near Rainier and try to do a daytrip most weekends and you're revealing some new options for me. I also love red rock country and focused on SW archaeology when an undergrad. If you'll be in Utah, I definitely recommend Moab as a base for then exploring Arches and Canyonlands. I visited a few years ago with a sister and cousin and the best money we spent was to pay for backcountry jeep tours (unless you are a major thrill seeker, you do NOT want to drive some of the off-road trips there!). Lots of beautiful country to see and LOTS of archaeological wonders (and not just petroglyphs, but pictographs...two different things!). If you are headed to places like Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon, consider Canyon de Chelly and Hubbell Trading Post (not the same location) are two places I think you'd enjoy. There is just SO MUCH to see in the SW...definitely not a one-and-done trip 😊

Absolutely loved the Bird king.

We really enjoyed making this video! Finding all of the Thomas Dambo trolls in the Northwest Trolls Way of the Bird King exhibition was a great adventure. If you are in the Puget Sound region you should definitely check them out. If you have visited the trolls, or like the trolls, or enjoyed this video, please share your thoughts in the comments below.

A different style of video, thanks for the troll tour of the area.

I was a student in Marburg in the academic year 1964-1965 and the city was like a beautiful fairy-tale dream.

Thank you for this video, I definitely want to visit it in winter. Do you suppose this was their winter home? Summer in Flag?

The siding on the grange appears to be painted cedar shake. I'd have to get up close to verify. Cedar shake was replicated in look by cement asbestos shake and later in press board shakes.

The hx of oranges is fascinating. Oranges were started at the national level after the war against southern inhumanities. Granges were by wives of soldiers deceased on both sides in order to hold local farm communities together with the loss of male farmworkers, husbands fathers, brothers.. It' starts interestingly and the threads run from there.

I would bet that the siding on the Grange is asbestos. Circa 1940’s maybe.

Where are the ghost?🤣

Another cools spot. And the map was amazing at the beginning. I love maps. A lot of German settlers came into Texas a little earlier and into a similar time. Thanks for another fascinating place.

Hopefully, you can get an answer to the siding question.