Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Berlin to Frankfurt via "The Autobahn"

I gotta say this was one of my highlights of this trip for those of you who know me. We picked up the BMW 525 yesterday morning in Berlin. What a sweet ride. We even had the voice activated navigation system to guide us everywhere. We hit quite a bit of traffic coming out of Berlin. This was not how I envisioned the autobahn. Once we finally got out of the mess, I finally got to open it up.

For such a big car it had some pick up. Not like my car of course. I was able to get it up to some friendly speeds though. You do the math conversion.


The countryside out here in Germany is amazing. Everything is so green and up in the hills you can see what looks to be rundown castles. There are still quite a few castles lingering around here in the countryside.


It just amazed me how fast these people drive. They just cruise down the autobahn doing 200 km/h like it's nothing. I LOVE IT! On the way we found some friends in another BMW and another guy in his Mercedes that wanted to have some fun. I will see if we can post the video. We had a little fun chasing each other down the autobahn. The Mercedes sounded like it was going to tear the road up. Needless to say the BMW's couldn't keep up.


Once we got here we sat down for a few minutes. It was about a four hour drive. We stopped in a little town on the way to get something to eat. We decided to go to an Irish pub a couple block's away. Got some food and a couple beers. Nick had coke also. We then walked around the city a little bit till we decided we are tired of walking.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW! This is so cool! I am just so glad that you didn't end up in the hospital or something. I can't believe you drove on the Audobahn! That is so so cool!!!!

Marshall said...

yea...hanging out with 4 dudes is way cooler than just 2. Nevermind the hot european women...go for the white, middle-aged males. That-a-kids. Way to perpetuate your lack of any action to a series of different countries.

Anonymous said...

Speed Demon,
I tried and tried to convert the Kilometers per hour you were traveling. I believe I finally acomplished this task. From what I could read on the photo of the Speedometer it looks as if you guys were traveling at approximatly 245 KHM. If I did the conversion right I figure you were traveling somewhere around 152.24 MPH
What a rush!

When I owned my 1977 Corvette one morning when I was driving my Speedometer registered 120 MPH. It seemed I was traveling very fast! You would hardly have a chance to react if needed! I can't even imagine what you two expierianced!

Too Cool, Dusty

Marshall said...

I recalculated the KPH to MPH...turns out you guys were going about 37 mph. You must have been scaaaaaared grandpas!

Anthony "The Hedge" Ito said...

Yeah it was quite a rush driving that fast. Don't tell anyone but I'm almost certain my car goes that fast too. But I guess I'll never know.