Last Day in Europe

Today was our last day in Germany before flying back to the US. We got up at about 8 or so and headed down for breakfast. The breakfast the hotel was fantastic. Every meat including sausages, eggs, bacon, turkey, everything. They had pineapple and watermelon, 4 different kinds of juice, yogurt, pretty much everything. It was expensive (what isn't over here?) But worth it.

We had to get the bikes back by 10am to the rental place so we donned a helmet and road the 2 blocks to the rental shop. We turned the bikes in a luckily he didn't notice the few new scratches so we were off scott free.

We walked back to the hotel, packed the rest of our things, checked out and went to the subway to go to our new hotel for the night that was nearer to the airport. Travel with 150lbs of gear on a packed subway is always fun.

We got the station where the hotel was, departed the S-bahn (surface train) and walked the 2 blocks to the hotel in the rain. We checked in, unloaded our bags in the room and headed back to the station to go to the airport and do a "dry run" as Captain Ken insisted.

We found the Delta counter and headed back to the subway station in the airport to head to the Olympic area in Munich.

I knew that the BMW plant and museum was somewhere in Munich but as we departed the train I saw a sign for BMW Wert (world). Right out of the subway station was the factory, museum and showroom. That was planning!

We spent about 2 hours at the BMW World as they had a ton of neat displays and information about their cars and motorcycles. We tried to go to the museum and, just our luck goes, they were closed on Mondays.

We walked across the bridge to the site of the 1972 Olympics and went to the pool where Mark Spitz won his 7 gold medals, which I guess doesn't matter anymore.

We walked to the stadium and had a brautwurst and a coke and walked by the memorial to the Israeli athletes who were executed by terrorists. It was somber to be at the same site, even 36 years later.

We headed back on the train, and walked around downtown again, bought a few shirts, had another expensive meal and of course beers. We headed back on the train, had another beer at the hotel bar and we're hitting the sack for our early morning tomorrow.

We leave at 10:05am here, or 2:05am in Montana. We'll be back in Butte tomorrow at 10:30pm tomorrow. I'd complain, but we're flying BusinessElite so it will be a great flight.

Cheers!