PAGE 10 CIMARRON TRAIL MEMBER ARTICLE By T im & Per r i B l ake Having been to the Eagle’s Nest before, and rain predicted for the afternoon, we drove south into Austria to tackle the famous Grossglockner High Alpine Road. This is a 36 turn mountain road that is worth every bit of the toll charge to drive it. It certainly is not one to be missed…especially not in a Porsche which was designed to devour a road like this. The winding road took us to the town of Reit im Winkl back in Germany for the night. The hotel was a ski lodge at the edge of town with a working farm complete with goats and deer. Very Bavarian. The Alpine Road then took us to Rottach-Egern, Germany for the next night where we had a nice stroll along the lake as we walked into town for dinner from the hotel. The following day we drove to GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany and drove south into Austria to take a cable car up to the top of Zugspitze mountain. The mountain sits in both Germany and Austria and can be ascended from either country. We chose Austria because it is less crowded on the Austrian side. For the last driving day we left GarmischPartenkirchen on our way back to Munich. However we stopped along the way at Oberammergau, Germany where they have a fairly extensive Christmas shop and then on to Neuschwanstein Castle for a tour of another one of Ludwig’s castles. Once back in Munich, we dropped the car off at AVIS, hopped a shuttle bus to our hotel near the airport and had yet another great dinner before catching our flight back to Tulsa the next morning.
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