From Konigssee to Munich

Before we left for Munich we decided to stop and do a little sightseeing. We drove up Kesltien, the mountain that Hitler's Igls Nest is on top of. During the winter you can drive all the way to the top so we didn't get to see it, but it was a beautiful drive and must have gone up another 2 or 3 thousand feet in elevation during the drive.

After the race in Konigssee (so now this was Saturday the 17th) Caleb and I headed back to Munich to spend the night before picking up Kimber at the airport the next morning. It is only supposed to be about a 2hr drive from one place to the other. About 45 min into the drive there was a decent amount of traffic just going a little slower than extremely fast.

We didn't think anything of it really. They have electronic signs that change when things are happening on the road. This sign was a triangle with cars saying STAU at the bottom. We didn't know what stau meant and from the picture I was just guessing that it meant slow moving traffic ahead, because that was all that was happening.

Well we came to a dead stop and at that point decided to look up road signs and words. Well STAU mean dead stopped traffic. Funny, if only we had looked it up sooner we might have been able to take another road. But no so we sat in traffic moving about 5 or 10 feet every so often. Then we stopped moving. In Europe when you are in traffic and aren't moving you have to shut the car off. So we sat with the car off for 2 hours! Luckily it was a warm day so we weren't freezing.

If you think about it is so smart to shut the car off, you save so much gas. I think they stop the traffic completely when there is an accident since we were on the autobahn it must be a safety issue. At least thats my opinion!

We finally made it to Munich. We were going to visit the Germany museum of science history, but by the time we got there it was closing soon and we were tired. We stopped at a nice wine bar and were planning on heading to the Hofbrauhaus but it is really crowded on Saturdays and would have been insane. So we just went to the hotel and had dinner.