Last day on Koln

Today I was wondering, what would it be to move and live here in Germany. There are so many *features* that I like about this place. One of them is all the walking. The public transportation system works so well, that it completely takes the guessing and the anxiety of waiting for a train to show up. There are light signs on every stop, indicating in how many minutes the train will show up. And the measurement is quite accurate.

The population, in the four days I have been here, I have not seen a single fat German. And I have been eating what they eat and it definitely has more calories and fat than the American food.

But the walking must be making wonders for them. I who am not a German, have been waking at least 10 km each time I get out of the hotel.

And the girls, I am still looking, trying to find out the ugly ones.
On the other hand, I would have to leave behind probably all my hobbies. Going out to the beach in the middle of the week, and maybe at midnight might not be possible without a car.

Additionally going to do rappel on public land, or waterfalls might not be possible either.

Yet, I do not miss those activities, they have been easily replaced (I guess I am not a man of attachments).

I had the alarm clock setup to wake me up at 6am today.
Last night I had planned to go to Netherlands, it is only 200km away, and on the ICE train that is less than two hours. I could have gone round trip in a single day.

Yet, when I woke up, it was raining hard, I heard the pieces of ice hitting the windows of the room. And I thought, Netherlands is further north, it is going to be worst over there.
So I bailed out from the plan.

Later, during the day, I was kind of butchering myself, thinking I should have gone.anyways.
Because of that, Netherlands that was not originally on my list of countries I want to visit, is now on. I already did the numbers, a round trip from Panama in August would be around $1600.00. If I could save $200.00 every month, for two years I can make it happen. It would easily cover the cost of the trip and tourism expenses. What an exciting idea. Maybe it was better that I could not go today. Now I have another burning desire inside (on the down side, it is making it a little bit hard for me to sleep tonight).