On The Road

Today was the day. The K&N air filter finally arrived yesterday and I could make no more excuses.

As expected the weather turned to custard as soon as I left home and I was riding through rain all the way to Munich. I ended up paying a heavy McCafe toll, hitting quite a few of them along the way for apple pie and coffee. In one of them the very nice old cleaning lady mopped up the wet trail I left across the store and kept mopping up the water puddle around a very apologetic me.

Just South of Munich the sky cleared for the first time and I could see the Alps.

My destination for today was a buddy’s place near Garmisch. The picture below is the view from his living room window.

We had a very nice dinner the night of my arrival and later went out to the Irish Pub in Garmisch for some drinks with some folks I had met while snowboarding in Austria in March.

The next day I had a good look around the lovely village of Eschenlohe.

Later that day we went to Munich for a party with some folks I went snowboarding with a few years ago. Only my first stop and I already got “stuck” for an extra day

I saw this guy just outside Germering, on the outskirts of Munich. Looked like he had fallen off the cross and we debated for a while whether we should offer him some help to get back on.