I would like to record to reflect that, seven months, nine days, and twelve hours since we departed for lands afar, for the first time, on this whole trip -- we are staying at a hotel with free wireless internet access. Yes yes, it's true that we had such technology while driving cross-country at the Comfort Inn, Middle of Nowhere USA -- but since leaving the United States things have been a little different. In Fiji we sat in a 100-degree closet for the privilege of paying $5 an hour for 14.4K dial-up. Asia was cheaper, if not always faster. Or cooler. In Tanzania, one lodge wanted $12 for 15 minutes, and elsewhere in Africa it took me one hour to upload a single solitary safari photo. Even just recently, in Frankfurt, we paid $25 for a single day's worth of wireless at a big business hotel. So you just never know.The irony is that, with all this free fabulousness -- we're finally in a place where there's far more to do than we have time. So in our spare moments, expect that Bryan and I are fighting over the laptop in order to e-mail you and sign on to IM and update flickr and post to this here blog.
Also of immediate note is the fact that the Germans can't seem to make a decent pillow, most bottled water here tastes oddly like soy sauce, and spatzel was a bit of a letdown. On the bright side, Mittenwald is one of the prettiest places we've visited and we enjoyed it immensely (while giggling at the fact that we were the only couple in town under 65.) The weather has been perfection, the slugs are huge and the signage continues to amuse.
More soon! ..........
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