Munich Madness

The autobaun to Munich was a great feeling. Open country side, speeding along, no longer lost, beautiful wife by my side and Jason Mraz playing on a Austrian radio station. Both hands on the wheel and shoulder reared back, imagine that.

But what's this traffic slowing on the autobaun? Sherry had fallen asleep for about 20 minutes when we came to a complete stop (like turn your car off stop) in the middle of nowhere on the autobaun. The sun was beaming in my window so I rolled the window down to let some cool air in and I noticed some beautiful scenery once again and made the best of the constuction stopping traffic and got some lovely mountain views right while on the autobaun (not a picture many people would have opportunity to take).

I always get a little nervous when coming into a big city and this was no exception. Munich is big! Remember we have no GPS and only some pre-saved google directions saved on my netbook from the night before. Exits were hard to distinguish and signs were hard to follow (just done ever so slightly from what we are use to). It was the next hour that I call the "Munich madness"...we were not in Rothenburg or Salzburg any more. Our goal, find our hotel. Sound simple? not so.

Once we manage our way through the bigger "autobaun" roads we came to the inner city type road, tiny, one way (both direction.. figure that out), squeezing through oldly named road that changed names often, always with someone right behind you thinking he was still on the autobaun. We passed several streets several times until we were sure we had seen most of Munich unitl almost miraclously we saw a familiar site a quaint looking house like building tucked in the middle of a neighborhood that we had seen many times on the internet when booking. And lovely it was, such a nice place with very friendly help who were passionate about their work. We got a beautiful room, we felt like royalty.