From 07 - 15 July 2006, I was in Munich, Germany, for a sports engineering conference with 5 of my fellow co-workers. It was a great chance for us to learn about the sports engineering research, and to know that we were doing the right things at work.
However, this blog is not about work. It's about Germany and the adventures that I had this time around. So here goes...
We flew out of Portland to Frankfurt in Business Class on Lufthansa. The seats were the best part of the entire flight. First of all there were only 2 seats where there would normally be 3 or 4 economy class seats. And they were totally adjustable. It was set up so it was possible to be lying completely flat. In a way, I felt as though I was in one of those adjustable beds that you see in hospitals and infomercials. It made sleeping in the airplane a lot easier. In fact, of the 10 or 11 hours we were in the sky, I believe I was asleep for about 7 of them. It also helped that I had only gotten about 3 hours of sleep the night before. I was actually able to sleep very soundly with the chair in the reclined positiion. I didn't feel like laying all the way down because it felt weird to be asleep on my side while someone was sitting right next to me.
Anyway, if you ever get a chance to fly business class on an international flight, do it. You'll spend the first 30 minutes playing with all the nifty features, and the rest of the flight wondering how you'll ever fly in a normal seat again =)
