European Vacation, Day 1

I made it to the airport!  The airport in Portland, that is.  I stopped by the Portland State University campus last night, to deliver a car to one of the new Germans.  After the obligatory beer, I caught a cab down to a hotel and slept for 5 hours, before the annoying wake up call.  Amazingly, I didn’ have any problems getting through security.  Now I’m mad, because I got checked in, through security and found my gate within 15 minutes, and now I have to wait an hour and a half before the flight.  That is precious time, that could have been used sleeping!   Oh well.  Maybe I’ll see how many people I can call at 5:30 in the morning…  The wireless connection here is pretty terrible.  I get full signal strength, but for some reason, the access points in this airport want to disconnect and reconnect me ever 45 seconds.  That’s helpful.  Maybe they don’t want people to download large files with their bandwidth. Whatever.  I’ll just blog instead.

Well, that’s about as much interesting stuff as I can come up with right now.  I’ll be updating my blog as my vacation progresses, so everyone reading can become more and more jealous as time goes on.  First stop is Frankfurt!! (Well, after the 12 hours of flying time and a stop in Atlanta…)