BTW, if any Austrians ask you to come down to their basement for a drink, think twice about it...

 

<click> And we have an official time of 2:32! The winner is Paul!

(I was wondering when it was going to appear in this thread.)

Not to worry -- if anyone is so gracious to ask, I'll be sure to send in Poppa Bear first.

 

Thursday night:
Gasthof zur Post
Lisbeth und Kaspar Nägeli-Aregger
6085 Hasliberg Goldern

Tel. 0041 33 971 35 34
Fax 033 971 35 97

E-Mail info@gasthofzurpost.ch





Friday night:
Pension Tirol
Fam. Wiestner
Nauders 350
6543 Nauders am Reschenpass

Telefon Pension Tirol: +43 (0) 5473 / 87247
Fax: +43 (0) 5473 / 87 310 312

Email: info@astoria-nauders.com


Does not appear to have a street address -- we may have to wing it, but from space, it looks like a small place.


Saturday night:

Hotel „Schweizerblick“
Schneckenhalde 1
79713 Bad Säckingen

Tel.:+49 (0) 77 61-92 52 - 0
Fax.:+49 (0) 77 61-92 52 - 50

 

Dman I gotta do that drive! I've wanted to go there since I saw them drive it on Top Gear... Ironically I'm down here in Oberamergau for a school right now (1/2 way there!) and have to head back to Ramstein to hook up w/our Deutsche relatives on Saturday (they're coming down to shop in the land of the big BX).

I'll try to go w/whoever can make it later in the year...

ANd btw Blimey, I should be back in the 'States sometime in late June/Early July for some pre-deployment leave and plan to hit the Dragon in my Miata that I keep at my brother's house in Atlanta.

I'll post when I get a firm date...

 

Have a great time guys! It should be a blast! Take lots of pics and post them for everyone...including Blimey!

 

Allllllllrighty, then.

We're off!

 

Sooooooo... Were the pictures are? Here in Graf sitting and waiting and the only stuff to read are the writing on the latrines walls. So, send me some pictures. PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Henry

 

Oh. My. God.

It was wicked. Need to eat and unpack and download photos.

It was insane. It was so good, I've gone blind. Better than the night I spent with the Swedish Bikini Ski Team in Tijuana.

 

Welcome back!

I bet you got some great pictures.

Henry

 

Photos, and some video, too.

 

Abuzabi,

Daflake is here also. At least he can play with his Mini everyday.

Photos....................?
Henry

 

You mean something like this?

 

WOW! Send more!

 

Google Earth file, here. Shows actual route (which is VERY different), and is color coded by elevation.

This is a pretty good preview of the tales we need to tell -- TomTom's wild rides, the tale of the Black Knight, the scenic detour that ended in a snowball fight, etc. Amazing trip -- my cheeks hurt from the perpetual state of SEG.

And that Dragon thing in the US? Yeah, um, I'm going to have to vote NO on that one. It can't compare to this. Can't.

Oh, and PB, the GE file on your server (4.2?) has a space in the file name -- that makes it undownloadable. Needs to be solid text -- try replacing the space with an underscore or something, or just removing it.

 

do you think you guys will be doig something like this again? i had work this weekend so i missed out. maybe a trip to the ring or something? let me know, thanks.

 

Awesome, guys. Glad you had a blast and made it home safely. The Dragon will have to find someone else to defend it... I'd take your route anytime...

 

Oh... but did you do any of this?


Or this?

 

Couldn't resist, Blimey, couldn't resist.....

 

Oh, and were there little side roads? Dirt ones?

Um, yeah. The Swiss Alps sort of roll right on down to the Black Forrest, home to knights that slay dragons.

And home to little goat trails that stop whole convoys.



Ask Poppa Bear about where TomTom took us, on our way to the hotel the first night. That was special. I think I marked it on the Google Earth file.

Right up a freakin' cliff.

 

I sure hope so. The guidon is being passed to Poppa Bear, I think -- I head out to America this summer (I ship the car tomorrow, in fact). But hell, I'd come back and do it again on R&R in a heartbeat!

 

Awesome. Thanks for the lesson in what Alps are. I needed that.

 

 

Sweet. Though I wish Poppa would take that sketch of my mother's left breast off the back of his car. That's really disrespectful.

 

Poppa Bear, I put some new Wordpress headers up on Flickr (here), licensed under Creative Commons. Maggie is in one of them.

 

OK, so you proved you know how to scan and crop postcards. But where are the pics that YOU took?