2022 High School Trip - Daily Reports
Condensed Daily Reports are listed below.
Days 1 and 2
After converging at Amsterdam airport this morning, we met our bus driver for the next 10 days. Bart, a veteran of many OWB trips, took us first to Kasteel de Haar, with a moat surrounding the largest castle in the Netherlands. After a nice outdoor lunch on the edge of Utrecht at Meneer Vink, we walked a few hundred meters to check in at our hotel.
After freshening up, the team went to the center of Utrecht and climbed the Domtoren - cathedral tower - 318 steps, over 900 years old, for a beautifully clear view across the Dutch countryside. We descended and had a great filling meal in a converted church (Cafe Olivier), then walked a mile or so back along the canals to Hotel Mitland for a much-needed night of sleep (with half the group pausing en route at Roberto Gelato for the best gelato in Utrecht).
Tomorrow we’ll start at the Anne Frank House, then have lunch and a quick tour of the Dutch national baseball/softball academy, followed by a doubleheader against the Netherlands U18 team, which may begin a few minutes earlier than planned (at 2:15pm).
While we have a tired group, they bonded well and made the most of a day coming off little to no sleep. It will be fun to see them interact as teammates tomorrow.
Day 3
We woke this morning to a great hotel breakfast and beautiful blue skies. While the alarms were probably a bit earlier than most of the boys appreciated, leaving once rush hour traffic cleared allowed us time to visit the Anne Frank Museum in the morning. Her tragic but inspiring story really comes to life with the simplicity of the museum and telling the story with words from Anne's diary. Afterwards, we walked to meet our bus and drove a few miles to the baseball facilities. We had a quick tour of the national baseball academy, led by a Dutch pitcher whom we faced on the hill later in the day. Lunch consisted of sandwiches and soup at the academy’s cafe before we moved across the road to the Amsterdam Pirates baseball stadium. On a side note, the Pirates baseball/softball club is the largest (by membership) of its kind in all of Europe.
We played a crisp game 1 to a 3-3 tie, highlighted by a Nate Seluga home run that briefly gave us the lead in the top of the seventh. Our pitchers Alex Nielsen, Jacob Voellmicke, Ben Couture, Matteo George, and Karsten Hatch held a strong Netherlands team to 6 hits. Luke Shane had 3 hits, with Brandon Chung and Bo Ziegler each adding another. Tyler Nee added 3 walks and 2 stellar defensive plays at short to save runs in the 6th.
In the second game, the play was a bit shakier at times, with Netherlands scoring 5 runs in the first 3 innings. Jackson Gutta and Jacob Posner pitched a combined 3.2 shutout innings with Kade Meyer and Wesley George fighting through some softer hits that found holes. Nate Seluga led off the game with a resounding double, but Old World was limited to just two more hits (Reed Woodland & Bo Ziegler) the rest of the way. Holden Peacock walked twice.
Postgame, we commuted back to our hotel for pizza and communal bowling (there's a small bowling alley attached to the hotel), with some sound sleeping completing the day’s agenda.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is our only remaining s scheduled off-day from baseball. We'll have a guided bike tour of Amsterdam in the morning, and the boys will have some time to explore both Amsterdam and Utrecht before our team dinner. Thursday morning we'll have breakfast and get one the road for Germany.
Day 4
Our only scheduled off day began under gray skies, but we experienced only a few minutes of drizzle during our morning bike tour of Amsterdam. Our guides split us into two groups for safety purposes, and everyone (in some cases, narrowly) managed to stay in one piece while seeing many sights around the city center, including the Rijkmuseum, Vondelspark, the National Holocaust Memorial and many canals and off-kilter buildings. Lunch consisted of hunting and gathering at Foodhallen (https://www.foodhallen.nl/) and a neighboring outdoor street market. Many players also found top-notch gelato at Massimo (https://www.massimogelato.com/) before heading back to Utrecht for what turned into a very comfortable afternoon/evening. Utrecht is a charming university town strewn with canals, cafes and restaurants, and the team had a memorable and voluminous meal under the stone roof of a canal-side restaurant (https://www.gauchosgrill.nl/utrecht-oude-gracht), where Ian Gunn claimed a well-earned rib-eating title after a tough battle with Reed Woodland.
We have an early start tomorrow with another full day of tourism and baseball on the agenda. After a stop in Cologne city center for a quick lunch, we’ll continue on to Bonn for our first of four games against the German 18u team.
Day 5
Somewhat reluctantly, we left Hotel Mitland and the Dutch leg of our trip behind this morning and spent our first day in Germany. Our initial stop was Cologne, where most of the team elected to climb 533 steps to the top of one of the cathedral’s steeples, getting both a great view and a nice leg workout from the effort. We continued on to the ballpark of the Bonn Capitals, where we played a back and forth 9-inning affair with the very-talented German 18u National Team, finally losing by a score of 10-7. Our pitching and batting were solid, but our defense and baserunning were not. The good news is that mistakes provide learning opportunities, and the coaches’ primary post-game message was about the importance of maintaining focus even when there is good reason to be distracted. In any case, each of our 4 pitchers (Voellmicke, Nielsen, Couture and Planko) threw strikes and competed effectively, and we had 11 total hits, including multi-hit performances from Shane, Hatch, Nee and Chung. Shane and Hatch also each drove in 3 runs.
Following the game, we took the short drive to our Rhein riverfront hotel (Maritim) in Koenigswinter, a picturesque Bonn suburb for check-in and quick showers. The group then walked a few meters to take a 8-minute ferry ride directly across the river to Restaurant Kleinpetersberg (https://www.restaurant-kleinpetersberg.de/) where we enjoyed a delicious and unusually relaxing meal on the terrace overlooking the river. It was a really nice way to finish a very full travel day, for players and coaches alike.
Tomorrow will be another full day, starting with our second game against the Germans (which will be a 7-inning match-up starting at 1030), continuing on to the renowned Neckar River town of Heidelberg, and then finishing up in Tuebingen, another lovely town a bit further south on the Neckar.
Day 6
Hard to believe (and a little sad) that we’re already at the halfway mark of our trip. We played our 4th of 8 scheduled games today, and the group has really come together on and off the field. This showed in our performance today, which was clearly our best to date. We avoided making costly defensive and baserunning mistakes, got timely hits and had excellent pitching. Kade Meyer and Jacob (“Captain Intern”) Posner combined on a 4-hit shutout with 0 walks, and our 12-hit attack included multi-hit games from Nee (reached base all 4 times), Lee (2 rbis), Hatch (4 more rbis, and a mammoth 3-run HR), Ziegler and Shane. Gunn and Woodland added line drive base knocks as well.
After an impressive clubhouse meal provided by the Bonn Capitals club (wonderful hosts, by the way), most of the team napped contentedly during the nearly 3-hour ride to Heidelberg. Once there, we walked as a group around the castle ruins and down the hill into the Altstadt (old town). The players then had 90 minutes to explore independently and find food before we got back on the bus for the remaining trip to Tuebingen. After checking into our hotel, the players had an opportunity to explore for a few minutes and eat doner kebabs (if they so chose).
Tuebingen, the birthplace of Coach Pags, is a lively and charming university town that will be our base until Sunday afternoon. We will explore the town a bit and play the Germans twice more, with Saturday’s game apparently available via livestream on the Tuebingen Hawks’ YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/@tubingenhawkstv8571/streams.
Day 7
Our last full day in Germany was spent entirely in Tuebingen. We began the day by walking for an hour as a group all over the old city center, taking pics and exploring its various nooks and crannies, after which the team had some time on their own to further explore, find lunch and guzzle eiskaffees (ie, coffee with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream).
A 5-minute bus ride brought us to the home of the Tuebingen Hawks, where we played our third game against the German 18u team. The game started inauspiciously, with defensive struggles putting us in a 7-0 hole after 3 innings. We then settled in and won the last 6 innings 4-0. Gutta, Wes George, Matteo George and Seluga collectively allowed zero earned runs, with Wes having a great bounceback outing and Matteo and Seluga combining on 3 shutout innings at the backs end. Gunn, Hatch, Peacock and Lee each doubled and Tyler (birthday boy #1) Nee added 2 walks. We’ll need to beat the Germans tomorrow morning in order to even the series 2-2. [Tomorrow’s game, at 10:30 local time, will again be live-streamed on the Hawk’s YouTube channel, and we’ll share a live link via Instagram before gametime.]
The evening finished with a traditional German dinner at Wuerstkueche (https://www.wurstkueche.com/en/frontpage-2/), with much meat consumed and both Tyler’s and Ben Couture’s birthdays regaled with songs and apfel strudel.
After our morning game tomorrow, we’ll have a long bus ride to Reims, our first (brief) stop in France, with an evening visit planned to Reims cathedral.
Day 8
We began the day in Tuebingen with a 5-0 no-hit loss to Germany, getting shutdown by a skilled German LHP who also beat the Dominican Republic 18U team in February. The limited highlights on our end were another fine defensive play from Nee and a ton of strike-throwing from our 4 pitchers, Couture, Planko, Hatch and Posner, with Planko and Posner both turning in scoreless outings.
After a quick postgame meal at the Tuebingen Hawks’ field, we embarked under sunny skies for the long bus ride to Reims, France. This was our longest travel day of the trip, but most of us didn’t mind spending several hours off our feet after a full week of nearly non-stop activity.
We are primarily using Reims as a convenient stopping point en route to the Paris area, where we will spend the last couple of days so the trip, but we couldn’t miss seeing the spectacular Reims cathedral while in town. The cathedral, which was completed nearly 750 years ago, is the traditional coronation site for the French monarchy. After pizza, gelato and the cathedral area stroll, we made it an early evening with Paris tourism and our first game against the French 18U team on the calendar for tomorrow.
Day 9
Our last long drive of the trip took us this morning from sleepy (but charming) Reims into the bustling heart of Paris. We walked along the Seine, ogled the Eiffel Tower, dodged the crowds in the Champ de Mars and shopped for lunch along Rue Cler. With a range of markets and restaurants to choose from, the teams’ food choices ranged about as widely as possible (i.e., from burgers to snails). A further post-lunch stroll led us past Napoleon’s Tomb to Invalides, where we met up with Bart and Tomasz (our bus drivers) for the short drive to our beautiful countryside hotel and a brief pre-game break.
Game 1 vs the French 18U team unfolded quickly in our favor, as we utilized a 10-run 3rd inning to coast to a much-needed and well-earned 11-2 win. We got another great outing on the mound (no earned runs, only 3 hits) from the contingent of Alex Nielsen, Ben Couture and Jacob Voellmicke, and the big hit of the day was our second HR of the trip, a 3-run bomb from Luke Shane. Nate Seluga contributed 2 hits to our 9-hit attack, and Jacob Posner gets an honorable mention for hitting a 400-foot foul ball. This group has truly embraced the travel experience and has been really fun to work with, so it was great to see them get a good win today. After the game, we broke bread and socialized with our French counterparts, which was a special treat for everyone.
Much is planned for tomorrow, the last real day of our trip. After our morning game, we will return to Paris for a walking tour and a hour or so of independent exploration. We’ll then transfer to Versailles for a look at the palace and a farewell dinner at a traditional French bistro.
Day 10
Our last day as a group was jam-packed. The first item on the agenda was finishing our baseball schedule (our 6th game in 6 days) with a 5-2 victory over the French, thus sweeping the series and improving our overall record to 3-4-1.
OWB’s pitching continued to impress, allowing only 3 hits and picking up 11Ks, with Kade Meyer, Jackson Gutta, Matteo George and Jacob Posner handling the mound work. Ian Gunn had a 3-hit day, including a 2-run dinger, Luke Shane and Nate Seluga each had 2 hits, and Holden Peacock added 2 RBIs.
The second item on the agenda was a return visit to central Paris, where we dodged raindrops while our tour guide Fernando led us past Notre Dame, Aix-la-Chapelle, the first public clock in Paris, Pont Neuf, the Louvre, the Tuilieries Gardens and various and sundry other classic Parisian sights. After another 90-minutes of independent exploration in Paris, which involved at least a couple of players getting e-bikes, we hopped back on our big orange bus for the ride to our final tourism destination, Versailles.
Under clear skies once again, we strolled the grounds of the spectacular palace and gradually made our way to Le Ducis (https://leducis.fr/fr) for our delicious farewell group dinner (and only true French meal). Most of the team is now enjoying a last few minutes of socializing at the hotel before calling it a night.
We’ll be up early tomorrow for the bus ride to Charles de Gaulle, and the OWB 2023 trip will sadly begin to fade into the rear view mirror. This is not goodbye, however, as we’ll send a final trip report soon, which will include one or more links to photo-sharing sites with higher-quality trip photos taken by OWB staff as well as OWB parents.
Days 1 and 2
After converging at Amsterdam airport this morning, we met our bus driver for the next 10 days. Bart, a veteran of many OWB trips, took us first to Kasteel de Haar, with a moat surrounding the largest castle in the Netherlands. After a nice outdoor lunch on the edge of Utrecht at Meneer Vink, we walked a few hundred meters to check in at our hotel.
After freshening up, the team went to the center of Utrecht and climbed the Domtoren - cathedral tower - 318 steps, over 900 years old, for a beautifully clear view across the Dutch countryside. We descended and had a great filling meal in a converted church (Cafe Olivier), then walked a mile or so back along the canals to Hotel Mitland for a much-needed night of sleep (with half the group pausing en route at Roberto Gelato for the best gelato in Utrecht).
Tomorrow we’ll start at the Anne Frank House, then have lunch and a quick tour of the Dutch national baseball/softball academy, followed by a doubleheader against the Netherlands U18 team, which may begin a few minutes earlier than planned (at 2:15pm).
While we have a tired group, they bonded well and made the most of a day coming off little to no sleep. It will be fun to see them interact as teammates tomorrow.
Day 3
We woke this morning to a great hotel breakfast and beautiful blue skies. While the alarms were probably a bit earlier than most of the boys appreciated, leaving once rush hour traffic cleared allowed us time to visit the Anne Frank Museum in the morning. Her tragic but inspiring story really comes to life with the simplicity of the museum and telling the story with words from Anne's diary. Afterwards, we walked to meet our bus and drove a few miles to the baseball facilities. We had a quick tour of the national baseball academy, led by a Dutch pitcher whom we faced on the hill later in the day. Lunch consisted of sandwiches and soup at the academy’s cafe before we moved across the road to the Amsterdam Pirates baseball stadium. On a side note, the Pirates baseball/softball club is the largest (by membership) of its kind in all of Europe.
We played a crisp game 1 to a 3-3 tie, highlighted by a Nate Seluga home run that briefly gave us the lead in the top of the seventh. Our pitchers Alex Nielsen, Jacob Voellmicke, Ben Couture, Matteo George, and Karsten Hatch held a strong Netherlands team to 6 hits. Luke Shane had 3 hits, with Brandon Chung and Bo Ziegler each adding another. Tyler Nee added 3 walks and 2 stellar defensive plays at short to save runs in the 6th.
In the second game, the play was a bit shakier at times, with Netherlands scoring 5 runs in the first 3 innings. Jackson Gutta and Jacob Posner pitched a combined 3.2 shutout innings with Kade Meyer and Wesley George fighting through some softer hits that found holes. Nate Seluga led off the game with a resounding double, but Old World was limited to just two more hits (Reed Woodland & Bo Ziegler) the rest of the way. Holden Peacock walked twice.
Postgame, we commuted back to our hotel for pizza and communal bowling (there's a small bowling alley attached to the hotel), with some sound sleeping completing the day’s agenda.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is our only remaining s scheduled off-day from baseball. We'll have a guided bike tour of Amsterdam in the morning, and the boys will have some time to explore both Amsterdam and Utrecht before our team dinner. Thursday morning we'll have breakfast and get one the road for Germany.
Day 4
Our only scheduled off day began under gray skies, but we experienced only a few minutes of drizzle during our morning bike tour of Amsterdam. Our guides split us into two groups for safety purposes, and everyone (in some cases, narrowly) managed to stay in one piece while seeing many sights around the city center, including the Rijkmuseum, Vondelspark, the National Holocaust Memorial and many canals and off-kilter buildings. Lunch consisted of hunting and gathering at Foodhallen (https://www.foodhallen.nl/) and a neighboring outdoor street market. Many players also found top-notch gelato at Massimo (https://www.massimogelato.com/) before heading back to Utrecht for what turned into a very comfortable afternoon/evening. Utrecht is a charming university town strewn with canals, cafes and restaurants, and the team had a memorable and voluminous meal under the stone roof of a canal-side restaurant (https://www.gauchosgrill.nl/utrecht-oude-gracht), where Ian Gunn claimed a well-earned rib-eating title after a tough battle with Reed Woodland.
We have an early start tomorrow with another full day of tourism and baseball on the agenda. After a stop in Cologne city center for a quick lunch, we’ll continue on to Bonn for our first of four games against the German 18u team.
Day 5
Somewhat reluctantly, we left Hotel Mitland and the Dutch leg of our trip behind this morning and spent our first day in Germany. Our initial stop was Cologne, where most of the team elected to climb 533 steps to the top of one of the cathedral’s steeples, getting both a great view and a nice leg workout from the effort. We continued on to the ballpark of the Bonn Capitals, where we played a back and forth 9-inning affair with the very-talented German 18u National Team, finally losing by a score of 10-7. Our pitching and batting were solid, but our defense and baserunning were not. The good news is that mistakes provide learning opportunities, and the coaches’ primary post-game message was about the importance of maintaining focus even when there is good reason to be distracted. In any case, each of our 4 pitchers (Voellmicke, Nielsen, Couture and Planko) threw strikes and competed effectively, and we had 11 total hits, including multi-hit performances from Shane, Hatch, Nee and Chung. Shane and Hatch also each drove in 3 runs.
Following the game, we took the short drive to our Rhein riverfront hotel (Maritim) in Koenigswinter, a picturesque Bonn suburb for check-in and quick showers. The group then walked a few meters to take a 8-minute ferry ride directly across the river to Restaurant Kleinpetersberg (https://www.restaurant-kleinpetersberg.de/) where we enjoyed a delicious and unusually relaxing meal on the terrace overlooking the river. It was a really nice way to finish a very full travel day, for players and coaches alike.
Tomorrow will be another full day, starting with our second game against the Germans (which will be a 7-inning match-up starting at 1030), continuing on to the renowned Neckar River town of Heidelberg, and then finishing up in Tuebingen, another lovely town a bit further south on the Neckar.
Day 6
Hard to believe (and a little sad) that we’re already at the halfway mark of our trip. We played our 4th of 8 scheduled games today, and the group has really come together on and off the field. This showed in our performance today, which was clearly our best to date. We avoided making costly defensive and baserunning mistakes, got timely hits and had excellent pitching. Kade Meyer and Jacob (“Captain Intern”) Posner combined on a 4-hit shutout with 0 walks, and our 12-hit attack included multi-hit games from Nee (reached base all 4 times), Lee (2 rbis), Hatch (4 more rbis, and a mammoth 3-run HR), Ziegler and Shane. Gunn and Woodland added line drive base knocks as well.
After an impressive clubhouse meal provided by the Bonn Capitals club (wonderful hosts, by the way), most of the team napped contentedly during the nearly 3-hour ride to Heidelberg. Once there, we walked as a group around the castle ruins and down the hill into the Altstadt (old town). The players then had 90 minutes to explore independently and find food before we got back on the bus for the remaining trip to Tuebingen. After checking into our hotel, the players had an opportunity to explore for a few minutes and eat doner kebabs (if they so chose).
Tuebingen, the birthplace of Coach Pags, is a lively and charming university town that will be our base until Sunday afternoon. We will explore the town a bit and play the Germans twice more, with Saturday’s game apparently available via livestream on the Tuebingen Hawks’ YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/@tubingenhawkstv8571/streams.
Day 7
Our last full day in Germany was spent entirely in Tuebingen. We began the day by walking for an hour as a group all over the old city center, taking pics and exploring its various nooks and crannies, after which the team had some time on their own to further explore, find lunch and guzzle eiskaffees (ie, coffee with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream).
A 5-minute bus ride brought us to the home of the Tuebingen Hawks, where we played our third game against the German 18u team. The game started inauspiciously, with defensive struggles putting us in a 7-0 hole after 3 innings. We then settled in and won the last 6 innings 4-0. Gutta, Wes George, Matteo George and Seluga collectively allowed zero earned runs, with Wes having a great bounceback outing and Matteo and Seluga combining on 3 shutout innings at the backs end. Gunn, Hatch, Peacock and Lee each doubled and Tyler (birthday boy #1) Nee added 2 walks. We’ll need to beat the Germans tomorrow morning in order to even the series 2-2. [Tomorrow’s game, at 10:30 local time, will again be live-streamed on the Hawk’s YouTube channel, and we’ll share a live link via Instagram before gametime.]
The evening finished with a traditional German dinner at Wuerstkueche (https://www.wurstkueche.com/en/frontpage-2/), with much meat consumed and both Tyler’s and Ben Couture’s birthdays regaled with songs and apfel strudel.
After our morning game tomorrow, we’ll have a long bus ride to Reims, our first (brief) stop in France, with an evening visit planned to Reims cathedral.
Day 8
We began the day in Tuebingen with a 5-0 no-hit loss to Germany, getting shutdown by a skilled German LHP who also beat the Dominican Republic 18U team in February. The limited highlights on our end were another fine defensive play from Nee and a ton of strike-throwing from our 4 pitchers, Couture, Planko, Hatch and Posner, with Planko and Posner both turning in scoreless outings.
After a quick postgame meal at the Tuebingen Hawks’ field, we embarked under sunny skies for the long bus ride to Reims, France. This was our longest travel day of the trip, but most of us didn’t mind spending several hours off our feet after a full week of nearly non-stop activity.
We are primarily using Reims as a convenient stopping point en route to the Paris area, where we will spend the last couple of days so the trip, but we couldn’t miss seeing the spectacular Reims cathedral while in town. The cathedral, which was completed nearly 750 years ago, is the traditional coronation site for the French monarchy. After pizza, gelato and the cathedral area stroll, we made it an early evening with Paris tourism and our first game against the French 18U team on the calendar for tomorrow.
Day 9
Our last long drive of the trip took us this morning from sleepy (but charming) Reims into the bustling heart of Paris. We walked along the Seine, ogled the Eiffel Tower, dodged the crowds in the Champ de Mars and shopped for lunch along Rue Cler. With a range of markets and restaurants to choose from, the teams’ food choices ranged about as widely as possible (i.e., from burgers to snails). A further post-lunch stroll led us past Napoleon’s Tomb to Invalides, where we met up with Bart and Tomasz (our bus drivers) for the short drive to our beautiful countryside hotel and a brief pre-game break.
Game 1 vs the French 18U team unfolded quickly in our favor, as we utilized a 10-run 3rd inning to coast to a much-needed and well-earned 11-2 win. We got another great outing on the mound (no earned runs, only 3 hits) from the contingent of Alex Nielsen, Ben Couture and Jacob Voellmicke, and the big hit of the day was our second HR of the trip, a 3-run bomb from Luke Shane. Nate Seluga contributed 2 hits to our 9-hit attack, and Jacob Posner gets an honorable mention for hitting a 400-foot foul ball. This group has truly embraced the travel experience and has been really fun to work with, so it was great to see them get a good win today. After the game, we broke bread and socialized with our French counterparts, which was a special treat for everyone.
Much is planned for tomorrow, the last real day of our trip. After our morning game, we will return to Paris for a walking tour and a hour or so of independent exploration. We’ll then transfer to Versailles for a look at the palace and a farewell dinner at a traditional French bistro.
Day 10
Our last day as a group was jam-packed. The first item on the agenda was finishing our baseball schedule (our 6th game in 6 days) with a 5-2 victory over the French, thus sweeping the series and improving our overall record to 3-4-1.
OWB’s pitching continued to impress, allowing only 3 hits and picking up 11Ks, with Kade Meyer, Jackson Gutta, Matteo George and Jacob Posner handling the mound work. Ian Gunn had a 3-hit day, including a 2-run dinger, Luke Shane and Nate Seluga each had 2 hits, and Holden Peacock added 2 RBIs.
The second item on the agenda was a return visit to central Paris, where we dodged raindrops while our tour guide Fernando led us past Notre Dame, Aix-la-Chapelle, the first public clock in Paris, Pont Neuf, the Louvre, the Tuilieries Gardens and various and sundry other classic Parisian sights. After another 90-minutes of independent exploration in Paris, which involved at least a couple of players getting e-bikes, we hopped back on our big orange bus for the ride to our final tourism destination, Versailles.
Under clear skies once again, we strolled the grounds of the spectacular palace and gradually made our way to Le Ducis (https://leducis.fr/fr) for our delicious farewell group dinner (and only true French meal). Most of the team is now enjoying a last few minutes of socializing at the hotel before calling it a night.
We’ll be up early tomorrow for the bus ride to Charles de Gaulle, and the OWB 2023 trip will sadly begin to fade into the rear view mirror. This is not goodbye, however, as we’ll send a final trip report soon, which will include one or more links to photo-sharing sites with higher-quality trip photos taken by OWB staff as well as OWB parents.
