Once again the fates have placed me at the airport. In just 13 short hours I should be in Frankfurt. I fly from Raleigh to Gatwick, then take a bus to Heathrow, then on to Germany.

I haven’t been in Germany in 13 years, and then it was just for a few hour layover at FRA, so I am really looking forward to the trip and sharing the OpenNMS kool-aid in Deutschland. Chris Dibona on his trip to China was thinking that he was visiting the birthplace of all of his electronics, so as the owner of a VW Jetta and a BMW RT1200 I guess I’m off to see where my vehicles came from. And then there is the beer …