We wrote this post while in-route to Seattle. We got up at 6am in Frankfurt, 9pm on Tuesday in Seattle. Getting to the airport was easy, we stayed overnight at the Sheraton at the airport and had but a fifteen minute walk to the terminal. The various lines (check-in, security, passport, etc.) were not too long. Frankfurt airport is so big that not all of the flights can pull right up to the terminal. Sometimes you get an ‘outside stand’. That means you ride a bus out to the plane and then climb stairs to get in it. It’s a lot of stairs with these big jets!

We got lucky somehow and they pulled us out of business class and moved us up to first class. The seats are a little bigger, the food is a lot better and they hover over you constantly. We also had our room upgraded last night at the hotel, so it’s been a bit of a bonus day 25 for us.

Twenty-five days is a long time. But we travel super-well together. We both love the quality time we get and we tend to enjoy the same things. So stress is low, enjoyment is high. It was a bit of an ambitious trip for us given the number of countries, currencies, languages and driving rules. Certainly others travel far more ambitiously than we do, but we are happy with how far we pushed ourselves this time.

We can’t wait to do it again, next year in the US and maybe in another two or three years again in Europe.