On the road to nowhere

Arrived Freiberg 14:00
Looked for the Hertz car rental location... not, the "car sharing"... wrong gate. Went to the info booth... man sez, it's too far from here to walk... take a cab... travel to Hertz...present my res..."STOP THAT CAB"... you're at the wrong Hertz center. Go back to the station. 25 Euros later, we're back at the station. Get the keys to the VW. Woman sez go downstairs and take a right and proceed to the garage. Stall #28. Go to garage. Stall #28 contains a Fiat Punta, the size of a postage stamp with two doors. What the f... Go down one level. Stall 28 contains a Benz. Back to Hertz. She points down... garage is underneath us. Go down the stairs and take a HARD right (i.e. a U turn). Go down an alleyway and voila, stall 28 with a VW. Jesus help me.
Start driving following the Garmin GPS (a godsend by the way) set on "scenic". 3 hours into a 3 hour trip, we're about 2/3 of the way. Stuck behind trucks that go 80 kmh. When you hit the freeway, everybody goes 160 kmh, which is way fucking fast. They blow by us like a Kansas twister. So we set the Garmin to "get our ass there NOW" and we make the trip in 4 hours total. Austria is everything they said it would be... BEEEAutiful, like Oregon, except greener, if that's possible. And way expensive... it's the taxes gang. Shit, our dinner tonight was 46E... total bill after tax 64E. Do people really earn that much more here? Gawd help us if they do, cuz the good old US of A is turning into a third world country.
Tomorrow is fantasy land... we are going to the castles that Disney copied for his theme park. Could be fun and then again, it could be a touristic nightmare. Dinner tonight was great... veal schnitzel and the beer is killer. Ciao for now.