ARCHIVE: Prologue (Arrival and Orientation in Germany 2013)

Day 1 The German landscape crept quietly out from under wispy cloud cover to greet me as we neared the Frankfurt airport. Clusters of orangey-red roofs and venerable older buildings seemed haphazardly scattered among expanses of geometrically precise fields. The Rhein snaked along beneath us until we banked and left its company, headed for landing....