Today myself and Garry (another US guy that has been here in Germany since October of last year) decided to visit the Mercedes Benz Museum. Garry had been there before but decided it was better to go again than to sit in his apartment on a nice (~50 Deg) day. The trip there as most trips in Germany begin with a train ride. The train system in Germany is pretty efficient with trains coming just about every 15 minutes. That is except for Sunday where it is every half hour. This trip we had to go from our stop to the main train station and catch another train. On Sundays you just cant be in a rush with a limited train schedule. It took us a little over and hour to get to our location. Then from the train stop
at NeckarPark it was only a 15 minute walk to the museum.
Once inside you can get an earphones and a device so you can hear all about each area in the museum. This was nice but could be overwhelming due to the fact that each car you could listen to the technical aspect, the cultural aspect, or they had a section for children which was the simple message. Then you got in an elevator and it took you to the top floor
and from there you walked along the outer portion of the building in a spiral until you were back at ground level. At the top they started you off from the beginning showing all the old inventions that they had done from a motorcycle, to propelling a blimp, to a train trolley type thing, and then to the car.
Then you spiraled around from time period to time period and they showed what cars were build and what in the world was happening at the time. Then they had a few rooms that had some different vehicles in them and they were named things like the car carrier room where they had big trucks in it that, you guessed it carried cars, the one room that I found my favorite truck was the "helper" room. It is a snow blowing truck.
Then another cool room was the celebrity room. In there they had cars from the German chancellor, a bus that the German soccor team the won the world cup or something rode in, and these two: the first is from the Jerasic park move and the next is the Pope mobile.
Then the next room was all about race cars. A lot to see in here.

Then there was a few areas about alternative fuel, concept cars, and technology. Nothing to exciting in these areas so no pictures. This whole walk in the museum took us 2 1/2 to 3 hours and we by no means looked and listened to everything but we were pretty much Mercedes-Benzed out for the day. As we walked back to the train station we saw a train leave the station meaning that we had 30 minutes before the next one would arrive again. I should of been smarter from my other travels in Europe to always check the train schedule when you get off so you can plan better. It was ok we just took in the warm weather and sunshine and looked around at the hillside with the vineyards and old buildings. The train ride back to the hotel was uneventful but the whole trip was a good way to spend a Sunday. This whole excursion took us from start to finish about 7 hours. Now I am going to take it easy and hope that I can find a channel on TV that will show the Superbowl even if it does start here at 12:30 at night. I have a feeling I might be a little tired tomorrow at work.