After retiring on March 2007, I decided to visit my brother in Germany. I did a lot of thinking about how I could visit a country when I didn't understand the customs, or speak the language. I did a lot of walking before I left home and even more after I arrived at my brother's. I ended up spending a month in Europe and while there I walked a couple hundred miles across Spain. You do a lot of thinking when you are walking alone for a long time. I put a lot of those thoughts in my journal. When I returned home I thought that someone else might enjoy reading them. This whole book is those journal notes as the evolved throughout my trip.