Guten Tag My Faithful Followers

I hurried to write my last blog entry and then jumped aboard a silver bullet to rocket across the Atlantic. Hoorah, hoorah, this time we scored business class! How happy was I? The sweet seats offered up a fab meal, comfy socks, refills on Riesling, even fruit smoothies after a 5 hour respite, stretched out from heal to toe, of course.

I'm traveling with Mark, Corinna, Barbara and Jim, 4 journalists from NYC, D.C., St. Louis and the outskirts of Philadelphia. I'll learn more about them along the way.

Right now we're waiting in the Zurich airport for our connecting flight to Munich. It's a great space, wall-to-wall windows, green escalators, soothing trams from gate to gate. I thought the escalator might be broken when I went to jump aboard. Before getting on it wasn't moving so I turned to my crew and told them it must be broken. Being the consummate travelers that they are, they knew better. They popped aboard and it started moving. Of course! Europeans are so electricity-conscious they programmed the escalator to only move when it needs to.

Oops, again, I have to run. My connecting flight to Munich just started boarding. I'll be back in a couple hours and a thousand photos later.