Dude where's my car's next gear

Got to drive to munich, then back to friedrichshafen, then back to munich. The second couple trips were on autobahns (which I kept accidentally calling interstates). If I'd been in my own car, I'd have totally been one of the guys going like 180. But instead I was in the rental car which I got bottom of the line to save intermap some money (though I noticed the mechanic rented an audi and the pilot rented a mercedes). The transmission was definitely not set up for highway driving. It was painful driving a couple hours at high rpms, I kept searching for another gear and almost put it in reverse a couple times. The germans are really concerned about snow on the roads though, there are warning signs all over the place, and as soon as the temp drops below 3 C the car beeps at you. And as soon as any snow falls, the salt trucks are out on the highway. Most of the driving between munich and friedrichshafen had very snowy conditions, probably not the best for driving fast anyways.

Went to Dachau on the way into munich, it's an old concentration camp / prison. Not too many people killed there in comparison to other places, but definitely a sad place. Though inspiring that people went through that and came out the other side.

Got the gender changer cable fabricated tuesday morning, drove to F to install it and test it, seemed successful, drove back to M at like 10pm. Pretty sucky day actually, and I hadn't been sleeping well. The radio was ineffective so I had to sing musicals to keep myself awake. It sounded horrendous!

Overall so many bad decisions associated with my time in germany. Firstly, probably didn't really need to go. And I was tired and wanted to get home. Secondly, as soon as I found we needed a gender changer, should have changed flights to go home the next day and let the next guy handle it in australia rather than stay in germany for several more days and rushing the install and not doing very thorough tests. Shouldn't have rented a car (the eu120 base charge jumped to eu370 by the time the extra crap charges are added), I barely used it except for driving the highway, which would have been possibly more pleasant, and definitely easier and safer, if I had just taken the very effective train network back and forth. Anyways, glad it's done now.