In October 2008, I went with Ken Nelson and Larry Rexford to Germany for a very short trip. Our German rep, Herr Ruediger Evers, picked us up in Frankfurt in the southwest side of Germany and drove us to Kiel on the Baltic coast on the northeast side of Germany, about 600 km. Kiel is a shipbuilding center on the Baltic and we went to visit a company called Gedis who has contracts with the German Navy for the F125 Frigate. We then drove down to Hamberg and flew to London and then I flew home to Dallas.
One thing that made this long trip to Kiel very interesting was Ruediger’s car and the fact that we drove on the Autobahn where there are places with no speed limits. This was the fastest that I have ever been.
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289 km/hour = 179 mph
291 km/hour = 180.4 mph
View out the side window at 180 mph is a blur
Kiel, Germany is a shipbuilding and resort town on the Baltic Sea, also the site of large ferries that go to Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Latvia
At Hamburg Airport I almost got on the wrong airline and ended up in Tehran