Day 2, 19 May 2008, Munich to Davos

Route

Today was a busy day. We met Adam and Carlisle down in the lobby around 8:40, checked out of the hotel and mosied over to the Welt to get checked in and start the delivery process. The part of the Welt dedicated to customer deliveries completely and utterly outclasses the old facility in Freimann. The waiting lounge (called the "Premium Lounge") is very richly decorated with modern furniture and supplied with a self-service food bar with various beverages, pastries, small sandwiches, etc. You wait here until your name is called to fill out the insurance paperwork and plan the rest of your delivery day.

We chose to skip the detailed car "briefing" and go straight to the delivery, followed by a tour of the Munich production facility. We had a little while prior to the actual delivery, so we bought some BMW trinkets in the gift shop. Since we are just replacing one X3 with another, there really wasn't anything new to learn, and we were driving down the ramp to the valet parking area within 20 minutes. The plant tour was very entertaining for me and Adam, while I think it took a little while for the girls to warm up to it.

The plant tour set us back getting on the road by a couple hours, and we finally left Munich behind around 3:45, following a nice lunch back in the Premium Lounge. We drove down to Garmische-Partenkirchen, into Austria, then into Switzerland. We crossed the Fluelapass at Susch (they just opened the pass last weekend, so it was awesome to drive over one of the higher Alpine passes). There was still a good bit of snow on the ground at the very top of the pass; and you could tell there was some fresh snow, too. The other end of the pass dumped us right into Davos.

We got into Davos around 7:15 or so and were met by the lovely inn-keeper, Heike Keller. After getting checked in, and being a little hungry, we set off to find a place to eat dinner. We quickly realized that Davos is a veritable ghost town in between the winter and summer seasons and there just weren't too many choices available. We settled on a horrifically overpriced steak dinner at a "wild west" themed steakhouse. At least the food tasted good, I guess.

We're just going to get on the road tomorrow after breakfast in the hotel, since we have to get to Zermatt; and I think it's a pretty good drive to get there.