I am back in Germany, in Jena in the living room of my parents house. Pat drove me to SeaTac, not after we had a farewell meal at the Jack in the Box in Ballard. After a long flight (I scored an exit row and had some Danish Pilsner) and some delay because of torrential rains in Frankfurt and a long drive through the rainy night I arrived last night. A new chapter is about to begin, tomorrow I'll drive to Berlin and get the rest of our stuff into the apartment Luzie already lives in since a month or so. I am very much looking forward to it, living in Berlin, working in Potsdam. It was very sad to leave Seattle, after the great time we had there. It is a truly great place, I miss the mountains already. Luckily, I could see Mt Rainier in its full glory while flying out of SeaTac. And I will miss all you guys, who made this 1.75 years in Seattle a wonderful time, let me say awesome time. Thank you for this, it would not have been half the fun, without meeting you. We had a bonfire at Golden Gardens on my birthday last Monday (Pat & Sarah talked about this too), what a great sunset over the Olympics!

And we headed out to the Sloop Tavern in Ballard, home of the 34oz beers. Biggest beers West of Munich. Sloop is, as I learned, a one-mast sailboat. S.L.U.T. T-Shirts were sold out and I did not make it up the Space Needle. More reasons to come back. Some pictures of my last days in Seattle here.

This is my first post in English on this blog and I plan on continuing in English, maybe sometimes German too, so the Seattle crowd can follow up on the Berlin Chapter, starting tomorrow, and get their a**es over here soon!

Tags: USA, Seattle