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03/23/2007: "First Couple Days"

Well, I made it to Germany for my 4th Dendritic Cell Treatment. Mike and I flew into Frankfurt on Thursday and made our way to Cologne through a snowstorm. By 8am this morning I was at the hospital getting my blood drawn. I mentioned the chronic pain I felt from my neck tumor and they asked me to stay and extra hour to lay under an ultraviolet heat source to try and damage the tumor. The heat breaks down the protein shell of a tumor leaving it vulnerable.

The rest of Friday was spent traveling down the Rhine River, visiting small little renaissance villages and several of the castles that crowd the river and hillsides. Finally, we ended our journey in the town of Mainz that sits at the confluence of the Rhine and Main rivers. This is the hometown of Gutenberg and houses his museum.

Tomorrow morning we head over to Frankfurt to pick up Tim and Kurt as they arrive for a week of travel. We head for the Mosel River and drift down to the Roman town of Trier before we head into Luxembourg.