May 2019   Betty Drum Griffin from SC, George Drum from Edenkoben and the Palatinate.   5 days, 3 people  4 hotel nights

Betty Griffin from North Carolina is a descendant of a pioneer settler in Catawaba County - Johann Drum, born 1725 in the Palatinate, supposingly in the Glan river valley near the town of Ulmet. I had the pleasure to travel with Betty and her husband Joe as early as 2009 when she brought  a group and again with another group in 2018. Now they came as small family with Deb Drum Davidson and Bob Howard Drum. Of course the Drums ancestral church and visits to Drum farms in Ulmet and in Zweibrücken in the Saarland were on our itinerary. And two famous Drums: George Drum form Erdesbach, one of the 19th century Palatine traveling musicians who as an immigrant band leader who became famous as composer of the ceremonial march "Hail to the Chief", and Johann Drum, sculpture and artist from Ulmet. The tour started in Frankfurt where Bob was stationed at the Frankfurt US troops headquarter - once Art Deco office complex of IG Farben chemical industries, today part of the University of Frankfurt - and ended at Munich.