Go Big Or Go Home: Round the World Edition We quit our jobs to go exploring before we are too old to hike up mountains and mountain bike down volcanoes. We may be a little crazy but we like it that way!

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GERMANY | Saturday, 23 September 2017 | Views [282]

Most cities surrounded by fortress walls had a curfew for its citizens to be inside by a certain hour. The main gate at Rothenburg had a manhole that could be used for a small fee.

Rothenburg is Germany's best preserved walled town thanks to a picture of the city that hung in the house of a boy named John McCloy. His Mom visited Rothenburg in the early 1900s and told him about its beauty and historical significance. As fate would have it years later US General John McCloy called off an air raid over Rothenburg during WWII and elected to negotiate the surrender of the town saving it from destruction all thanks to his Mom.

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A statue of St. James in Rothenburg serves as the meeting point of several important pilgrim ways.

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