Almost 24 hours have passed since waking-up for my trip, and finally I�ve reached my destination. Its around 12:30 PM local time, which is 3:30 AM in Colorado. The trip here went okay really, other than the layover in Charolette which ended-up lasting between 6 and 7 hours. The flight from Charolette to Frankfurt really wasn�t too bad�I was able to sleep through most of it.
Andrea drove to the airport rather than taking the train, so I have experienced the Autobahn already. Tons and tons of BMW’s, Audi’s, and Mercedes, but I’ve only seen a couple of Porsches so far. She had to go back to work for the afternoon, so I’m going to hop in the shower in a bit, and try not to fall asleep so that I can adjust to the local timezone. I don’t feel like I have jet lag that bad, but I bet by 8-9 PM, I’ll crash hard. No big plans for today really other than starting to make some plans for the next week here this evening. Given the typical European 35 hour work week, Andrea will be off tomorrow afternoon which starts her week long vacation while I’m here.
If I don’t feel like I’m going to pass-out after my shower, I think I’ll go stroll around the town a bit. I’m staying in Neustadt, which is a small town of around 50,000 people in Southern Germany. The local economy seems to be mostly supported by the wineries in the region, and its quite beautiful here. Andrea’s apartment is pretty cool as well, and has some nice views of the area from the balcony. I’ll be sure to take plenty of pictures as I have around 420 pictures at my disposal since I picked-up a second 256 MB Compact Flash card for my digital camera this past weekend. I won’t be able to post any of them until I am home, though.
I’m still sort of adjusting to being here, mostly by nature of having to pinch myself that I finally find myself in Europe. Its one of those things I’ve looked forward to for years and years, and finally its happened. It will probably take a couple of days for it to sink in that I’m really here, and am not in a movie or something. And yes, I know I’m strange, but thanks for noticing.
Anyhow, typing on this German keyboard sucks because the keys are all moved around, so don’t expect any long, personal e-mails from me, nor should you expect my entries to be error free. I’m mostly documenting the trip for myself so I can go back later in the future and read about it. That’s it for now!
0 Responses to “Guten Tag from Germany!”