I’ll have sporadic access to the internet and will read the comments; if I turn into a night owl, I might write an article or two.
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.
I’m currently in Europe and heading out for a stage hike in the Alps with my brother. If everything works as planned, and neither fate nor karma get out of control, I should be back in the corner office of the Wolf Street Media Mogul Empire by July 1.
Throughout our hike, I will have sporadic access to the internet in the evening and morning local time, when I will be checking on the comments, and if jetlag turns me into a night owl, I might write an article or two. So don’t be totally shocked when an article pops out of nowhere.
This is the first time I’m actually (mostly) taking off in the 14 years since I’ve had WOLF STREET and the predecessor website with the ghastly name. I have the worst-ever boss, but after months of idle threats, inept cajoling, and useless brown-nosing, I finally got him to relent and give me a few days off.
My brother and I are no longer the youngest dudes. We used to hike together but haven’t done so in 30 years. So now is the time. We’ll start at the edge of Germany and head into the Austrian part of the Alps. Wishing you all the best till then.
Enjoy reading WOLF STREET and want to support it? You can donate. I appreciate it immensely. Click on the mug to find out how:
Have fun wolf! Post a pic or 2 if you can. Enjoy your time off.
Enjoy your time off, you’ve earned it.
Yeah we will be left to ir own devices
Meanwhile the core Fed inflation indicator came in red hot and the interest rates. illogically declined
Enjoy your trip, I’m jealous
You’re in the part of the world I love most. Which towns will you be hiking near?
Home is here in TN, but I’m there 3-4 times a year.
Have a few biers for me!
HEY – YOU GET AT LEAST TEN THUMBS UP FOR YOUR LONG DESERVED ADVENTURES. (Sometimes i am all thumbs and it seems to happen more and more as the years pass.) I, OF COURSE AM JEALOUS.
Enjoy! We want photos of you in Lederhosen, women in dirndls with edelweiss in their hair, and cow wearing a bell. Bonus points of an audio of you yodeling.
Awesome! Have a wonderful time!
Nice. Happy Trails!
Have a great trip! I just finished 12 days in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka and loved it.
Hope your brother took CPR training :)
I always thought some of your articles and thoughts were schizophrenic so this explains a lot. Tell your “boss” to relax.
Enjoy your trip!
Have a great trip/hike!
Thank you again for your great articles!
Hiking in the Alps………that sounds fantastic. Enjoy your time off and come back refreshed.
Cheers
Enjoy your time with your brother. Watch out for bears!
Have a great holiday and please tell us where you’re hiking. CU soon
Night Wolf, enjoy.
Have a wonderful vacation!
Also I hope this isn’t a ploy to go to the ECB to give them a piece of your mind.
Wolf Pack! 🐺
Geht, aber geht mit Gott….und kommt gesund und erholt zurück.
mache einfach mal 3-4 Wochen nichts. Das ist lebenswichtig.
Gut, wenn du Deutschland den Rücken zu kehrst. Einfach nur ein land zum auswandern.
Ist es so schlimm in Deutschland?
I thought Bavaria, especially the Alpine area is much better than then rest of Germany!
Left Germany over 20 years ago and find it better to live in China, I am from the capital of the “Party und Event-Szene” (Stuttgart) though.
You need to have at least ONE employee, for occasions such as this. I just moved into your San Fran office. I’ll call my daily column Where’s Wolf (Werewolf).
If I write anything you don’t agree with – too bad, you’ll be half-a-world away. Enjoy your time camping on the Matterhorn summit!
Just came back from a nice Pyrenees hike myself. Have fun, guys!
Hab eine fantastische Zeit!
LOL!!!! With that route you can pretend you are high ranking Nazis fleeing Patton’s commissars!!!!
Who’s pretending?
(Just kidding, just kidding!!!!)
Don’t forget the Swiss-Italians Alps, they are the best!
Enjoy…
I would fair to bet that society will not crumble if we don’t see an article until July, because Wolf is enjoying 10 days of nature without world wide web access.
Good for you.
My attempt 40 years ago to hike across the Alps failed but nonetheless, the Alps are unforgettable!
Well,have a great time,let me just add don’t hike in some parts of Europe at moment(Ukraine is but one example!).
Might be a good time to also learn how to yodel perhaps?I will ask if you do this perhaps a video or two when you get back?!
Safe travels! Looking forward to your coming posts and comments!
Wait… Vacation??
Maybe I should investigate.
First japan, now Europe?! Where to in September – Mozambique? Riding wild hippos?
You’re quite the adventurer.
I went hiking in the Schwarzwald years ago. Loved that part of Germany and would like to go back some day. Enjoy the mountains !
Löwenbräu, Warsteiner, Paulaner, Erdinger, Augustiner-Bräu, Hacker Pschorr.
How’s my German? That’s all I know!
Your German is pretty good – you seem to know the most important words. At least with this selection of words you will never run dry in Deutschland!
Pro tip:
“Zum Wohl” or “Prost” will do well to drink with others together – in Bavaria a “oans, zwoa gsuffa” will also go a long way to win sympathies with the locals!
Your inputs are the best out there. You’re a cut way above the heard of “Talking Head’s”. I wish you the best of a great vacation.
Having your wife take a shot as a fill-in would have let her appreciate how amazing her husband is!
Sounds like a great plan! Everybody in Europe is watching the World Cup, so you should have the Alps to yourself. :)
You do a piece on BOJ when you come back, right? ;)
Viel Spaß und Toi Toi Toi Wolf!
Of course you picked a week with crazy temperatures. Have fun.
Yes, it’s pretty warm here, beats rain any day for hiking, but having spent much of my life in OK and TX, it feels like perfect summer days, not super hot.
It’s only a day or two in Germany, and should be a bit cooler at that elevation. We’re roasting in Spain. Just let some people know where you are, get sunblock, use as much shade as possible, have some backup comms, etc. I bet Wolf knows the drill as an experienced hiker.
Take a large knife with you in case an immigrant bear charges you from the woods.
You beat me to it.
But , yes. I second this thought of caution.
Stay safe Wolf.
Good for you; enjoy!
Hooray for you. And about time. Enjoy the down time. I am sure nothing will happen while you are gone…
I hope you have a great time!
Have a wonderful time and a well deserved vacation!
That sounds like a wonderful time. Appreciate all of the hard work that goes into your articles and I’m sure this is a very well-deserved trip. Be safe and enjoy your trip with your brother.
have fun! Do not forget Italian dolomites!
Scaled down the side of Jungfrau once in Interlaken, good times! Be safe and Enjoy yourselves!
Have a fantastic time, Mr. Wolf!
If you can, don’t miss the Dolomites.
Unforgettable …
Try to work in Chamonix Valley. C’est merveilleux!
Keep on trekkin!
Are you headed for a new record on the Eiger?
Enjoy!
In your next article about the Fed potentially hiking the rates, you might add a special section rating the hikes
Enjoy! We are not much for the hiking but we cycle around Europe a fair amount.
Enjoy!
Have a great trip. We’ll try not to lose too much money while you’re gone.
When I travel, I always notice how wrong my media-informed preconceived notions about a place are. Let us know what you see that dis-confirms what you thought the Alps were like.
I visited the UK and France last year. My TV-watching parents told me to be very careful, as news of a few crimes had made it across the Atlantic. I pulled the statistics and pointed out that I would be 14X more likely to be murdered if I stayed home than if I spent the same two weeks in Europe. The cognitive dissonance between reality and the impressions they’d been given locked up the computers between their ears.
You travel not to see new places, but to come back with new eyes.
True, but remember those are averages.
Crime can be hyper-local. I live in one of the safest cities of Spain, and you’d think the widespread assault weapons ban makes it much safer, but some parts in Europe are pretty damn seedy.
In the Greek city I am from, some guy whipped out a freaking Uzi in a bar somewhere and started spraying people with bullets recently (good thing he was a lousy shot). Conversely, I felt super safe when I spent a few months in the Upper Peninsula of MI many years ago.
“I might write an article or two”
Ugh, so lazy…
What will us trolls do now huh?
Is zerohedge still around?
I’d check but prefer not to get a virus.
Good for you. I hope you are having fun.
Don’t worry, when you get back inflation will be under control approaching the 2% target, the balance sheet will have been shrunk (no ample reserves), employment will be steady, housing prices will have moderated, and there won’t be any stock implosion.
What will you have to write about?
All the best for the trip … perhaps you will have an epiphany up there in the alps !!! :)
The benefit of hiking in Europe vs The Rockies in North America? You don’t have to deal with Grizzlies.
They have brown bears in some parts of Europe, which are like grizzlies. And they do kill people occasionally. But we’re not in those areas.
But do they have lightning?
As we all know from the headlines, one’s risk of dying in a weird, entertaining way multiplies a thousand-fold when traveling.
Wandervogel
Have fun, but take care, those alps can become nasty to tourists all of a sudden.
Enjoy!! I’ve been an every day reader for 2 years and just realized I never subscribed since I never comment. I absolutely love your site. Please keep doing what you do.