Marty on Autobahns

One aspect of the trip to HAMM that I didn’t mention was that we drove there on the Autobahn. Another life long ambition fulfilled. We went in a pretty new fau vé (VW) and it wasn’t until the return trip that I realized we were averaging 160 km/hr! So all of those cars that were overtaking us and totally leaving us behind must have been doing close to 200 km/hr! But these speeds are expected, to calculate the trip time Google map had estimated the average speed for the trip to be 120 km/hr. I’d been thinking that the Autobahn was rougher than I’d expected but at that speed it’s not a surprise I could feel some of the undulations. Potentially the only criticism I can come up with was the speed transitions from 160 down to 80 km/hr seemed pretty dramatic. Then last weekend we went to Frohmut and Gudrun’s weekend home for a weekend away. I’d heard Frohmut teasing Sabine about how slow she drove so I knew it would be fast. This trip we were in the 200 km/hr car. Using the LTNZ ad as an inspiration, that’s a speed equivalent to falling down 65 stories (compared to 16 stories at 100 km/hr).