Thursday, November 03, 2005

The Drive

The weekend before, Mark Snider (who was over here for Model Office) said that the drive to Prague was 5-6 hours. I suppose technically that is true given the fact that the drive is mostly on the German autobahn, which does not have a speed limit. But in truth it would probably require someone to go 240 km/hr in order to get to Prague in under 6 hours. And for those of you who don't know km/hr - that's about 145 mph.

We did average about 150 to 160 km/hr, which is more like 90-95 mph, but the cars started to shake if we went much past that.

We took a bit longer, no doubt helped by the various stops along the way, and our getting lost once we got into Prague. Despite rumors to the contrary, Patrick and I did not get divorced for getting lost. We did stop at three gas stations asking for directions, so I don't want to hear about men being unable to ask for them. And the couple of loops around the outskirts of Prague that we took gave us the opportunity to get an overall view of the city.