So the traveling has begun. We were a bit wacked out by the overnight transatlantic flight, and the fact that we were up and on our way to our first destination/challenge about an hour after touching down in Frankfurt. Yes, folks, Frankfurt, Germany was the jumping off place for our adventure south to check out some castles and some mega mogno go-kart (yep, souped up, un restricted go-karts) track in the Rhine valley. Anyhoo, we were just minding our own business, psyched to be tromping up the pretty steep hill leading to Marksburg castle. Hey, why do they always put the cool castles up these steep hills for anyway? But yea, this place had never been destroyed which is a pretty cool and a big deal in this part of Germany and we we’re just taking it all in when………….

Caroline (Frau Swizzle) says” Is that truck starting to roll down the hill?……It is……Hey………Your truck is roLLING DOWN THE HILL……!!!!!” says safety officer Caroline to the German delivery dudes who don’t really run marathons (If you know what I mean). We’ll the Herr truck driver may have been a little slow to put together what saftey officer Caroline was saying in her excited, jet lagged english, and he probably isn’t inclined to rush to many things, but I’ll tell ya, when his his truck starting to carreen down that very steep slope at speeds that were aproaching possible air time at the fast aproaching hairpin turn, Herr truck driver did a jackie owens, carl lewis, and/or other really fast guy impersation that litterally blew our hair back. He was so fast I couldn’t even catch him on this short, but very real, clip.

And that was only the begining of this crazy Comptitours challenge. I’d write more if it wasn’t 2am and if I didn’t have to get up at the crack of early for more challenges. But were having a ball and hope to post more of the fun soon. Frau Swizzle saves the day….again. And the guys at the go-kart track brought their own custom painted helmets like pool sharks bring their own pool cues.

Sincerely,

The Swizzles