Thanks for the report. It's great to have several Germany and Austria threads going right now. We leave on Wednesday. I have some concern that we have been too ambitious, but I posted our plans several months ago and didn't get any negative feedback about travel distances, so I hope we have kept distance under control. I am so excited I can hardly keep focused on all that stuff (stopping mail, watering plants) that needs to be done today and tomorrow. I do hope we have hospitable weather. We had six of eight days of rain on our B.C. mountain biking vacation this summer. We'll make the best of whatever weather we are dealt, but vacations are so much sweeter when the weather is somewhat cooperative. Glad you had some good days. PJK