Bonfeld

This is the schoolhouse in Bonfeld. It's a very quiet little village that has a lot of farmers. Tasha and Leo love the fields behind our home. The mice in the fields DON'T love Tasha and Leo.
For me, going from Chicago to Bonfeld was probably a bigger shock than going from the US to Germany. Bonfeld: population 1632. Did I mention it is very quiet here?

Living in a rural town in Germany is different from in the US. A typical drive in the country in this region means: a few kilometers of beautiful forest, and then on through a village and back to the country road for another couple of minutes and on through the next village. You rarely find yourself in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes this is great, sometimes not so much. Germany has 82,000,000 people living in a land the size of Montana. Dense population means little space. For this reason, most things - from cars to houses and yards, to laws - are created with compact size and efficiency in mind.