We're in London and I found a computer, so I wanted to send a quick blog update from Europe. I've got a few stories from our trip. The visit with the troops in Germany went great as it did last year. All of us NHRA racers really enjoyed the visit with the troops again. I still can't get over how many of them are drag racing fans. We talked to a lot of soldiers that were at races last season while on leave.



I got to drive the Autobahn this year! We only got up to 150 KPH because that's as fast as the little car we had would go. Let's see, we toured a castle and medieval town, got lost trying to find the rental car return lot. It was way off on some side street on the east side of town and we had to catch the train downtown. So we missed our train to Paris and had to wait and take the all-night train that didn't leave until 9:30 p.m. or 21:30 here. We got a sleeper car and slept off and on to Paris. Paris is a really cool place. There are lots and lots of awesome buildings and architecture.

It's hard to communicate if you don't know French. We got to London on the high-speed train yesterday. That thing is cool. It really hauls the mail. We spent the day riding the open-air bus around London getting a feel for what we want to really see today. We're getting ready to head out the door to visit the Tower Bridge and Tower Castle and Big Ben. We've already been to Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abby. We even ran across Renee Zelweger's new movie premiere here in London last night.



That's it for now. I'll check in with you when we get home in a few days.