So we leave for Berlin, with absolutely no plans in sight or hotel reservations, we drive around the city, have dinner and look for a hotel. At this point, we realize the grave mistake of no planned reservations in Europe… every hotel is sold out for the night or doesn't want to speak english. We literally drive to probably 20+ hotels and do the dance (mind you this after super jet lag and then a full Euro Delivery day, so we are really really exhausted). We try calling hotels and no one wants to speak to 2 Americans on the phone looking for a hotel that night… finally finally we get to one hotel at 2AM and the man takes pity saying “we have one room that the person hasn’t showed up for, if they don’t show up by 4AM its yours”... So at this point were so excited were doing cartwheels, and eventually we get out room. We get some sleep but wake up at probably noon still exhausted. At this point we learned our lesson and decided to book a hotel room at least one night in advance….
Some first impressions after Day 1. Man I love this car, all the concerns I had about it being a “new” car went right out the window… The ontrack experience really blew me away and I was pretty smitten. The color was also very intense, it honestly took me awhile to adjust to it. Its as if you go to a paint store and say, “hello I want green paint”, this is what they hand you. I have had other colored cars in the past but wow Python Green is vibrant…
Over the next couple days we hang around Berlin, visiting some friends along the way (now with another night booked at the same hotel…)
We stopped by our friends at Craftwerks to install the LWBS seat recliners. I had tested buckets before my build locked and thought they were painfully uncomfortable for anything more than 5 minutes, my wife especially hated them. I’m a tall person and the position was just way too upright. However I was able to test a pair of seats with the seat reclining brackets on them and they went from the worlds most uncomfortable seats to the worlds most comfortable seats I tried installing these with the seats in the car and I have no idea how anyone does that. I instead removed the seats and was done with both sides in probably 20 minutes.
At last the long awaited comfort was there.
Continuing on with Berlin, we had an amazing time just taking a little bit of a breather and getting over our jet lag before the next part of the trip…
The Nurburgring
