We took a road trip a week or so back that led us through an impressive chunk of Germany -- basically from Denmark to Frankfurt and back via Cologne. The drive from Frankfurt to home we did in one chunk and it took around 9 hours. For the bulk of the trip, we relied on our portable GPS to guide us from point A to point B -- and for the most part it did a great job.
But I had to laugh: We were winding along the roads we took from Köln to Frankfurt -- trying to make our way to our overnight stop in Rüdesheim am Rhein (my new favorite tourist trap!) We had already made one detour when we convinced our guidance system that finding a winery was really the right thing to do. After that, the wife was driving, I was navigating (she gets carsick otherwise) and I was looking ahead on the GPS map to see where it was taking us. I saw we were crossing the river ahead at a place called St. Goar. "Huh," I said, "I don't remember there being a bridge there. Oh well. " Sure enough, the GPS was telling us we had about a tenth of a mile before our next turn -- but there was nothing but water ahead. It all came clear when the GPS then announced, "Turn left... and board ferry."
The ferry ride was impressively efficient. The ferry crossed every 10 minutes or so, just going back and forth across the river in ping pong fashion. I'd guess it held about a dozen cars but no more. For about 6 bucks each crossing (we crossed three times by the end of our travels), it wasn't a bad way to get where you needed to go.
“The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry.” -- Arabian Proverb
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