Proud to be a Kraut (I am German in case you are not familiar with the word "Kraut").
Live life to the fullest because you never know when it may be your last day and never, ever let anyone talk you out of an adventure you want to undertake. In most cases they are just jeleous or envious.
I have been taking slides for 30 years and in 2003 I switched over to digital. Now I still have the humogous task of digitising several 1,000 slides.
Please visit my commercial photography web site at: www.photghraphybyjurgen.com and give me some feed back if you care to do so.
After travleing to about 75 countries and every continent I had quite an exciting life and documkent same in some articles (mostly travel and and adventure but also current social & political issues.