And yet another installment of the "I Don't Think We're In Kansas Anymore" saga...
We just returned from a quick visit to our old stomping grounds: Boeblingen, Germany, where we lived from 1989-92. As if to welcome us back, what did we encounter on the small road leading out of town but the signs telling us we were on a Toad Road! Actually, if you really want to know, the sign says, "Schildkroetenwanderung." Now, aren't you sorry you asked?
What this is is the annual, huge "migration" of toads from one side of the road to the other. Why cross the busy road in the first place? Your guess is as good as ours. But cross they do. And so, squished they get. By the dozens. Or, at least that's the way it was until the local government invested in mini-Berlin Walls, running for about 3 miles along the side of this particular road. Can you imagine local governments in the U.S. using tax dollars to protect toads?
What the wall does is keep the travelin' toads from making it to the road. Instead, they are "channeled" to small tunnels which run under the street, bringing them safely to whatever it was that was so darned important on the other side!
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