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Germany
I was planning on going to Germany with a bartender (Steve Dear) from the Rip Off in Sunnyvale. He got offered a job in the post office and ate his tickets for the career move. I ended up going alone. I flew into Frankfurt and rented a car which I drove to Basel and on to Zermatt Switzerland. I spent 3 days in a tent on the side of the Matterhorn and attempted a solo climb which almost killed me. I left Zematt before the 4th of July and went to Innsbruck and on to Munich. In Garmisch Patrtenkircher I took cable ways to the top of the Zugstipze. I ended up in Dreich (a suburb of Frankfurt ) when Germany won the World cup. In 1996 I took my fiancé Jackie on a similar route without the tent camping except for in Munich at Thalkirchen Kampingplatz by the zoo.
Munich
Munich architecture around Marian Platz
The Zugspitze in 1990 (The highest point in Germany, shared with Austria) There was actually an unmanned boarder crossing at the summit. Although we stayed at the same Gauste Haus (Guest House) in Garmisch in 1996 my future wife wouldn't do the tramways. (She wouldn't do them in Zermatt either). In 1990 they were working on a tramway on the German side which would take you from the bottom to the top without having to change tramways, never got to see how that turned out. (2964m = 9724')
Opal  in 1996 Camping in Munich (ended up sleeping in it, hiding from the rain because the tent leaked)	Opal rental car in 1990  (picture probably Switzerland, rented at Frankfurt airport)
Took both rental cars up over 100 mph (160 kph) on the autobahn to see what they would do. Usually drove about 70 mph (110 kph) where it felt more comfortable. They weren't really fast enough to compete on a road with no speed limit, just kept out of the way of the really fast cars.
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