Our hotel in Duluth is very chill. Free WiFi, complementary bike rental, and THC gummies are available in the gift shop.

Beacon Pointe™ ON LAKE SUPERIOR&10;ODYSSEY RESORTS&10;GRAB AND GO BREAKFAST&10;Located next to the Front Desk and available each day from 7AM until 10AM our "Grab and Go" Breakfast features hot/cold cereal, yogurt, bagels, pastries, hard boiled eggs, and more.&10;GIFT SHOP/MARKET&10;Open 24 Hours with Heggie's Pizza, THC Drinks & gummies, snacks, ice cream, gifts, clothing and convenience items.&10;BIKE RENTAL (OPEN FOR SEASON)&10;Complimentary available from 7AM until 8PM each day. Please stop at the Front Desk to fill out a waiver form. Bike locks & helmets also available.

Took a little road trip

Duluth and Lake Superior

The lake is so high they took out the dock sections, and now the frame looks like a scene from a horror movie

Dock going straight underwater to your doom

Why can’t we get nice straws like this in Germany?

Cold brew with a compostable straw, not paper

Our spot on the lake for over 50 years

Went to Taco Bell yesterday. It was a lot better than I remember (which was back in the ’80s 😃). All staff and customers were less than half our age.

Used my German passport for the first time at AMS to exit Schengen. It was somewhat anticlimactic as US passports were using the same machines.

Enjoying the Radisson Blu Hamburg Airport before our 6:10 departure tomorrow morning 🥱

Hamburg Airport Terminal 1 as viewed from the airport hotel

Wacken Sunday is normally our biggest day of the year. But with the rainy weather, many left the festival already yesterday, so we did more business on Wacken Saturday than we did on Wacken Sunday last year.

Heading to the airport to pick up a recruit from Georgia, a new country in our portfolio 🇬🇪

Laura Dahlmeier, Gold Medal-Winning German Biathlete, Dies in Rockfall www.nytimes.com/2025/07/3…

THIS WEBSITE WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT SOME DATE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SO IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING, DON’T WAIT TOO LONG. tomlehrersongs.com

Watching the Euro women’s final is especially fun since my wife and I are for different teams (she is for ENG, I’m for ESP)

Pouring rain and our restaurant in Harburg has water dripping through the ceiling tiles into the office. Turned out not to be a leaky roof, but the water line to the steamer (for Filet-o-Fish buns).

We quietly started 3rd party delivery in our newly digitized Phoenix Center (Harburg) store. First day: 19 orders, 17% of sales, zero advertising.

The best thing about our “Mecces um die Welt” promotion are the Grimace shakes. We’ve never done much with McDonaldLand characters in Germany, but no one can deny the global power of Grimace.

Now we know the demographics of Coldplay concerts

The trend away from cash in Germany continues, at least for our business. Our sales are now less than 30% cash.

My wife shot the scepter, the tail, and finished off the torso, so she’s the Business Queen of the Schützenfest in Buchholz. She gets to keep the pieces.

A prize cup, two pins, a scepter, and a tail from a wooden target bird from the Schützenfest in Buchholz.

After 35 years I’m finally experiencing German Schützenverein culture first hand.

Monitor showing a wooden bird as shooting target. Goal is to down the claws, wings, head, scepter, apple, and finally the torso, which decides the king or queen.Greetings from the president of the shooting club.

North German salad dressing advertises new ranch dressing on Times Square (or is this fake) www.zum-dorfkrug.de/ranch-akt…

I’m not saying I listen to music not appropriate for my age, but Spotify just recommended a “Teen Beat” playlist for me.

Misunderstanding with our accountant. She told us to send her some private receipts in two binders (Ordner), which I packed up and sent by post. She actually meant zip files of two folders (also Ordner). 🤷‍♂️

Wenn das Liebe ist - Nina Chuba open.spotify.com/track/1E7…

From the official McD Germany instagram. Are we going to have to change our signage? 😀 www.instagram.com/p/DLrM58L…

McDonald’s sign that says Mecces instead of McDonald’s