Monday, July 17, 2006

S. Germany

I guess I am just a southern boy at heart no matter where I am. Munich is my kind of place. - and it's NOT just the beer! I was in Stutgart about 3 years ago and fell in love with the place.
We have been taking the trains, U-Bahns and S-Bahns everywhere. That will be one thing I miss. We did our first overnighter on a train too - Berlin to Munich...tomorrow it is Munich to Venice!
So far so good, we haven't tried to kill each other

Northern Germany

It seems that in N. Germany EVERYBODY smokes....really young kids, too. Just crazy! It also is messy cause they really don't use ashtrays - especially in the train station....that and the lack of A/C makes everythgin dusty. I doen't think i will ever get all the Berlin dust out of my computer! Oh well- that what i get for leaving it open one night....
We did stay in a neat place - Pension Kima just off Fuerkerstandamm ( I think that was the street - Fasion district) Really nice people.

Travel Plan Observations

It does not matter how much you plan, something always happens to screw them up. For instance, we stayed at my daughter’s (College Station) to be halfway to Bush Airport (Houston) to make the drive easier. She decides she needs to mail a package before leaving town, so we spend 30 (extra) mins at Post Office – unplanned delay. We make a reststop halfway to the airport, I had switched my glasses for my sunglasses and I am driving my son’s Jeep Cherokee since we have all the luggage. There is no place to really set my glasses down so I just set them in my lap – I guess – and forgot about that when I got out, cause when we got to the airport we could not find them anywhere...I ONLY have my sunglasses for the whole trip!
Oh well, on the plane it wasn't too bad make sleeping easier.
Had the movie start aura going...lol
The family we were visiting in Kassel took me to her Eye Dr. and I got contacts and reading glasses and non-Rx sunglasses. Lasik is look pretty good right now, but can do it on both eyes due to astigmatism - damn! The contacts are not that bad, but Have the hardest time getting them OUT! Too many years of conditioning when something is coming at your eyeball you look away