Oct 19 thru 20

We checked out of the hotel after breakfast and headed for the Autobahn.  It has been many years since I last drove in Germany and I had forgotten how many German drivers keep their cars in afterburner and expect you to move over for them even if you are behind another car and can't go any faster.  Instead of taking the direct route to our destination for Oct 20 we decided to drive along the Swiss shore of Lake Bodensee (aka Konstanz) and found a cute boutique hotel / restaurant, overlooking the lake, named Seemöwe in the small village of Güttingen.  We both had excellent steak tartare for dinner and the next morning at breakfast we had the best muesli I've ever tasted with lots of fresh berries.  Our GPS tells us to turn at specific street names which aren't always on a street sign, just the name of the village direction that way, so we often make a wrong turn and have to backtrack.  However, when we turned wrong at the east end of the lake, we ended up climbing a narrow mountain road which was "recalculated" and an acceptable route to Sus (the name of our new GPS) so we continued on and passed through many small mountain villages.  The scenery was spectacular and we plan to drive more of those roads over the next week.  We crossed over the border into Austria for more than an hour and finally back into Germany where we found our time share location in Milas, an almost non-existent town next to Oberstaufen.   Oberstaufen is a mineral water spa and ski area in the Bavarian Alps.  The trees are in the midst of the fall color change and we should see some brilliant changes over the next week we are here.  We checked in and then drove to Oberstaufen to the grocery store (our studio unit has a partial kitchen that we'll use for breakfast and snacks) and returned to unpack, relax and plan the next few days' excursions.