Introduction: The walls in our heads -- Breaking down the wall -- But for the weather -- Leaving the American sector -- Concrete details: your guide's tour of Erfurt -- Alfs, autos, and encounters with the polizei -- Words fail me, yet again -- Destinations and wanderings -- Field without dreams: baseball in the former GDR -- The class that doesn't exist in the country that once did -- Whatever you do, don't look down -- In former times -- Afterword: Echoes of a fallen wall.