My favorite part of the Rhein is from the point West of Wiesbaden where the river turns North on up to like Bonn. I lived in Hanau in 70/71 and our favorite thing to do on a Sunday was to just cruise up the river and then cross on a ferry and come back on the other side.

My wife and I like to find a Hotel on the river in that area and get a room on the top floor facing the river and just watch the boats go by. It makes for a very relaxing time.

Our thirtieth anniversary is in May and we were thinking of using some frequent flyer miles to go to Germany, but with the exchange rate as it is I'm sure it would be more expensive than I was accustomed to in '00 and '01.

I have been to the racetrack at Hockenheim twice. It's a great facility and I'm sure it's better now. I saw Phil Hill there in the sunset years of his career.

There's a really great stretch of Autobahn that runs from that area West to Kaiserslautern. It is really wide open and mostly straight.

I came close about a year and a half ago to moving to Munich, but I was a little leary after 9/11 to move there to live. In general the people are great, but I don't know how all the political environment might have effected an Americans welcome.

Have a great weekend,