Silk Road

Hami gave me the idea of following the Silk Road to China, I like the idea seems the Stern had a similar articule and Herbert mentioned it. Could be a great adventure someday.

Back home

I am not on my computer and the Internet I pay for in the USA, feels good to be back home after spending 12 days on ICEs and relatives. I was greeted by a letter from the IRS wanting more paperwork yuck! 20 days to comply and I thought that I was done with taxes, I figured 40 hours of my time have been unproductively used for this crap, now it will be more. Makes me wonder how much the nation uses to comply with tax law, there is a very big hidden cost in this country of people preparing taxes, even when you have help, which I didn't get, you still have to do lots of work.
Still haven't gotten TurboTax/Quicken to work right, but feel that I would rather try GNUCash and some open source tax software. Wouldn't trust it as much, after all there is no one to sue, but I feel pretty confident that something open source has been at least revised as much as the Wikipedia which is very high quality.
Now I wish I had some picture of our return, but the camera stayed secure and empty in my backpack through he whole excitement of if I was able to catch the next flight home on standby. I didn't mind getting stuck in either FRA or DFW since I had a train ticket to Fulda, would be easy to do or in the case of DFW, I used to live there and would rent a car to see the city before coming home, I bet in 10 years it has changed. I rather liked my years there, it was the first apartment I ever rented. I never furnished it though, only some garage sale items in there.

Took the city tour, the guy spoke so much I couldn't follow, but it was not bad, I had done it once before 3 years ago, it is a very nice town. I even recorded part of the guides talk on the Zen I bought the day before the trip.

Sleepless in Germany

4am here, lots of pictures and adventures. We got to LAX much to early due to a schedule change, wasn't printed in the old email, we left 25 min early as well. So we arrive in Dallas and the next flight leaves late, arrive in FRA late, go to the post office get a telephone card, go to the train validate ticket and then walk on a wild goose chase for a while, take the S-Bahn back to the Hbhf and go to Fulda on the ICE arriving at 12:15, slightly late, but otherwise we would probably have missed the train.

Time at uncle's was really lovely. He showed us the town and we talked at dinner and all meals. He is really cool and I looks a bit like Paul McCartny. So after 2 sleepless nights in Fulda we plan to go to Berlin-Hamburg, to meet Christan and Glady.

Ich bin noch ein bischen neue zu diesem blogging, muss mal rausfinden wie man Fotos macht.

Sleepless in Germany

4am here, lots of pictures and adventures. We got to LAX much to early due to a schedule change, wasn't printed in the old email, we left 25 min early as well. So we arrive in Dallas and the next flight leaves late, arrive in FRA late, go to the post office get a telephone card, go to the train validate ticket and then walk on a wild goose chase for a while, take the S-Bahn back to the Hbhf and go to Fulda on the ICE arriving at 12:15, slightly late, but otherwise we would probably have missed the train.

Time at uncle's was really lovely. He showed us the town and we talked at dinner and all meals. He is really cool and I looks a bit like Paul McCartny. So after 2 sleepless nights in Fulda we plan to go to Berlin-Hamburg, to meet Christan and Glady.

Taxes

OK, so taxes are mostly done now, with all the trading I and my wife did last year it was 20 hours of work, geez... they should pay us, but we pay them.... I am going to Germany on April 9th, will be back May 9, meanwhile I do want a google job when I return. Trip close by, damn, don't bug me. Should turn phones off....