Bavarian Glory
Leavenworth Hello, Tuesday 5th ‘How do we get into Leavenworth’? We asked a person for directions. ‘It’s easy. However, you first have to commit a crime, a very serious one at that,” he answered, rather smugly, we thought. Until 2005, they incarcerated only the most hardened criminals in Kansas; currently, it is a medium rated lock-up. ‘Aha’, we thought, ‘he’s thinking prison; we’re thinking hiking two hours northeast of Seattle. We wanted to tell him that we did not think it funny but it wasn’t a bad answer, we suppose. We’re probably miffed that we did not have a good retort. In the Stuart Mountain Range, lies a quaint Bavarian village, Leavenworth. Unfortunately, it shares its moniker with the infamous prison. Without having visited the jail, we would venture that this is a more beautiful place and by a wide margin, too. One drives through/over Steven’s Pass and shortly thereafter, arrives in the village—a city actually. The architecture emulates Bavaria together with a sprinkling o...