Even amid so many visitors, deep in the maze of those slabs, some of which rise far above your head as the earth tips away, you can feel very lost, very alone, and grateful to experience a different Europe, a different Germany.
Said to include practical, down-to-earth tips for mums and dads, it includes such advice as "When you have a baby, you will sooner or later need to buy a 'cot' – that is, a very small bed with sides to stop your baby falling out! Dangly coloured things – what we call 'mobiles' – can be a nice added touch".
Almost no other country on earth separates tipped from non-tipped employees in this way.
"There is a large black market," says Adams, who is in the process of prosecuting six people for illegal mining, and uses government satellite imagery, google earth and tip-offs from locals to scour the dense back country bush, sometimes alone, and sometimes with a geologist, Department of Conservation ranger or police back-up.
Examples include the The Open Surf Atlas: an open atlas of surf spots on the planet, with video, images, maps and data specific to each spot, Earth Friendly Tips for the Home, Yoda Quotes (with video) and Oyster Varieties – a list of oyster types commonly eaten and cultivated, with photos.
The precarious balance of our earth, already tipping toward irreversible damage and death was just one grain away from total annihilation, and adding that one grain, that one self-destructive action would be my fault.
More down-to-earth readers tipped packaging materials, such as wooden pallets, cartons and plastic stretch-wrap, as useful leading indicators.
In her books and in more than 100 appearances on the "Today" program on NBC, Ms. Krupp offered down-to-earth style tips intended for real women, not red-carpet icons.
Go to dosomething.org for more earth-friendly tips.
Twitter even made a moment called "Did Elon Musk just shut down the Flat Earth conspiracy?" (Quick tip: the answer to the question is no, Eratosthenes did that like 2,000 years ago).
