Munchen or Munich! another planet...

Hi everybody! Or Guten Morgen everbodenhosensteingrenhoffen as they would say here in Germany! Safe and sound we arrived in Frankfurt yesterday morning and got right on the 4 hour train to Munich, took a little bus to hotel - Hotel Elizabeth Princessa. Our hotel is beautiful, 4 star, super nice staff and good little neighborhood. Once we settled it was around 6 pm and we went out on the town in search of the Hofbraugh-Haus to get our selves some well-

deserved giant beers. That took us right in the middle of the tourism, fresh markets, german sausages and pretzels everywhere, beautiful architecture and bustling beer gardens. We sat outside at a table with an incredibly nice and friendly family of four from Holland who gave us their info for the

last leg of our trip in Amsterdamn. After achieving a substantial buzz off a liter of genuine german Hef-Weiss we picked up some chicken and rice (Brandon’s meal of choice these days), and stumbled down the cobblestone streets to a questionably gay bar (we still aren’t sure about those purple v-necks) and had some cheap beer. There was an attendant at the bathroom selling marshmallows.

The german language is so disorienting

to be around. It literally makes you feel like you are on a different planet. Planet Carbs that it. Everywhere you look its bread, bread, beer and more bread. A liter of Franziskaner is about 1.3 euro that is about 2 us dollars for a big bottle of delicious beer. Everyone is incredibly friendly and helpful although its pretty sad when they are trying to be nice and help us out and we stand there looking at them like their face is melting off because we have NO CLUE what they are saying.

Per usual I couldn’t sleep so Brandon and I woke up at around 4 am this morning and found ourselves dinning at the local gas station by 5:15. Kaffee and panni’s table service inside the gas station. This was pretty comical to us once we realized exactly what we were doing and how freaking confused we looked. We asked our “waiter” aka gas attendent what time it was and he said it was 24:6. Hmmmmm. It was 5:47. With our unexpected early start we fit in a little workout in our hotel gym, showered and are now going to explore Munchen and visit the Dousche concentration camp.

Tomorrow we are off to Sicily where we will rendez-vous with our mail order pal Guiseppe. Gotta leave by 3am tomorrow so it should be an early night although who knows. AufWiedersehen!

"Jerome" and Air Canada

Well…our trip has begun! Our thirty-three pound backpacks are in the bottom of our Air Canada flight 756 transferring in Toronto and onto Frankfurt where we’ll board a four hour train to Munich and begin drinking immediately to the famous Hafbrau-haus. Our morning started off like any normal morning…after a delicious breakfast at Bugaloo (22nd & Valencia) we schlepped our bags to the nearest Bart stop. To our demise, as we walked down the stairs we caught a glimpse of the local homeless transvestite “Jerome.” And in all his glory, insanity and probably a little bit of schizophrenia there he was with his cock in hand showering the stairs with his morning piss.

There is obviously several amazing and fantastic things about traveling, but I would have to say one of the best is leaving your cell phone at home. Jess and I both have left our cell phones in the states and I can’t begin to tell you how good that feels. For lack of a better word…FREE. No more “I’m out of toilet paper,” no more “hey Brandon (from Joyler my

installer) they don’t want the soap dispenser,” and no more attachment.

Fuck ya.

I have to throw props to Air Canada for their excellent customer service and fantastic onboard entertainment…and not to mention their food. Us west coast peeps are used to the cheap in and out service (that’s what she said) of Southwest Airlines. Hop on, shut up, fly for 1-3 hours and your done. Air Canada takes it to another level…and I’ll Tarentino this one for you. The flight attendant says to me as she is throwing my trash out, “It is my pleasure to serve you.” Not to

dwell on Air Canada cause we have much bigger fish to fry, but let me know tell you. Their on board entertainment system is the shit. They had everything from HBO shows like Entourage, Flight of the Concords to Hollywood movies, international movies, classic movies…even a documentary about 4 students going to China to study Shaolin Kung Fu. Everything was free. Even the 3 glasses of wine. Check out the picture, they even had a 110v outlet and a usb port. Nice!