Sunday, April 11, 2010

Getting Home


Did you make it back to Zürich?
Yes.
Without help from the navigation system?
Partially! Claudia (the navigation system) awoke when we entered Germany. See photo above of Poland rendered ‘blank’ on the navigation system screen. (Note, as well, all the triangles indicating traffic problems.)
Were there any other driving challenges?
Nazy forgot to bring her key. That meant that before she could drive, she had to manually adjust the driver’s seat.
Gasp!
And, when I resumed driving, my key failed to automatically adjust the seat to my preferences. It was, as you can imagine, a very difficult time.
How long did it take to get to Zürich from Krakow?
About as long as it took Napoleon to retreat from Moscow. The German autobahns were crowded, narrow, bumpy and old. Naturally drivers adjusted their speed upward to cope. Resultant accidents created more congestion which in turn resulted in motorists attempts to make up time by moving to even higher speed – and so on.

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