Monday, October 10:
FINALLY, today is THE DAY. Early morning flight to Munich.
Arrival and driver is waiting for me with brand new 7 series. What a car that is! Drives directly to the Welt.
I am about 3 hours early and though I was told there were no plant tours available via email, when I got there one was starting so I got to have some delicious lunch from the lounge and then head over to the tour.
Met a couple other Americans who had taken delivery. One lady had picked up a 430i convertible the week before and did a Swiss tour with her nephew and the other guy and his buds had just picked up a new Alpina B7. Tour of plant was incredible, and took my mind off the final couple hours of waiting.
Tour is over and it’s finally time! My specialist, Rudolph, is waiting for me so I gather my stuff we head to the stairs. Of course I peek over the side!!
I ordered this car really wanting the sparkling brown, but having never seen it on a 2 before! I knew it would look amazing and was beyond excited and relieved to see just how great it looked!!!
Rudolph does a fast but thorough briefing. I take tons of pics. He sticks on toll and emissions stickers and I hook up portable GPS and it’s time to take a victory lap and head out into the wild!
Rudolph
Heading out!!!
Then I stop for a couple pics outside…the front of the Welt had all sorts of construction going on so we had to make a compromise on picture location. Worked out okay.
Car handles very well on the Autobahn and in the mountain roads. I try to take it super easy and only hit 120 mph briefly. Then it was time to head for Austria, over the Fern Pass, and on to the tiny town of Pfunds (established circa 1282) near the Italian and Swiss borders where I’d spend night 1 at a wonderful little B&B Hotel Gasthof Traube.
For those who don’t know, this is basically on the road to the Stelvio Pass.
